BOSTON, Mass.—After five years of legal battles, Camp Constitution was finally allowed to raise its Christian flag at the Boston City Hall Plaza.
The flag-raising ceremony was held on Wednesday morning with about 200 people in the audience. Harold Shurtleff, co-founder of Camp Constitution, together with Mathew Staver, chairperson of the Liberty Counsel, raised the flag with a red cross amid music and cheers.
“It’s almost five years in the making, but we’re very excited about it today,” Shurtleff said.
In September 2017, City of Boston, citing “separation of church and state,” rejected Camp Constitution’s application for raising a “Christian flag” at the City Hall Plaza. Shurtleff sued the City, but lost his case in a U.S. district court and then the Court of Appeals….