West Roxbury man threatens to sue city if mayor won't let him fly his Christian flag from a City Hall flagpole

I've had no trouble accessing the website:campconstitution.net

MAFamilyCouncil, through the courts, got churches exemption from the "bathroom bill" public accommodation clauses.

You've seen the arguments about whether pizza places and bakeries have to serve teh gays. That's also a religious freedom argument.

Boston's favorite Bircher is trying to establish a legal president and he may have picked a good target, Marty Walsh. I hope the mayor is positioning himself for the legal battle rather than defense of his refusal to the request. He would do that by discussing the issue with experts on the first amendment like the ACLU rather than just corporation counsel.

Koch brothers' father founded the John Birch Society and it's seeing a resurgence now in the Trump era. I think the HQ was in Belmont.

What conservatives understand is that people do care about their culture and how it is changing. That is why they pick issues like this one and stoke islamophobia. For example, a large of number of southern state legislatures passed or tried to pass resolutions in opposition sharia.

SPLC:

The John Birch Society publishes the Manifesto and sells it for six bucks a pop at gatherings of its conspiracy theory-loving, U.N.-hating, federal government-despising, Ron Paul-supporting, environmentalist-bashing, Glenn Beck-watching true believers, attending, in this case, a luncheon celebrating the group’s 54th anniversary.

After more than five decades of secret socialist plots and accusations of treason at the highest levels of American government — these are the people who once called President Dwight Eisenhower a communist — the arch-conservative John Birch Society is still waging its Cold War-era crusade against the Red menace and American “insiders” who, in the society’s view, are hell-bent on handing the country over to the socialists at the U.N.

A must read to get a handle on the whole picture on our Oligarchs who hooked up w/#Russia namely the John Birch Soc https://t.co/okixObwRtq

— Maud Gonne (@AnnaEngelbrech5) August 5, 2017

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BostonHerald

Constitutional law experts say the city is likely on solid legal ground in denying the request.

“The city’s choice of which flags to fly is likely to be government speech, and thus within its discretion, unless the city really has a policy of accepting all nonreligious flags without any real review,” said Eugene Volokh, a UCLA law professor.

Mark Tushnet, a Harvard law professor, said the city’s interpretation that flying the flag on a city flagpole could be viewed as an endorsement would, in his opinion, hold water with a judge.

“I think it’s much more likely for people to think if it’s on the city flagpole, then the city must be standing behind it,” he said. “If that’s right, then the city in my view is entitled to say no.”

They've been pretty responsive to these sorts of things of late.

With the Constitution. That is exactly where he belongs.

Good luck with that Cardinal O'Malley.

Fish remains the UHub wanker. Every site needs a token bigot and unrepentant liar.