Nicholas Goldberg: Of course you can't fly a banner with a Christian cross on a giant flagpole at City Hall
What would you think if you were walking past Boston City Hall one day and saw at the building's entrance an 83-foot-tall flagpole waving a banner with an enormous red Christian cross on it? Well, if you were a churchgoing Christian you might think that was OK. Maybe. But if you were a member of a different religion or if you were a nonbeliever — or if you cared about the separation of church ...
by Nicholas Goldberg, Los Angeles Times
Jan 05, 2022
3 minutes
What would you think if you were walking past Boston City Hall one day and saw at the building's entrance an 83-foot-tall flagpole waving a banner with an enormous red Christian cross on it?
Well, if you were a churchgoing Christian you might think that was OK. Maybe.
But if you were a member of a different religion or if you were a nonbeliever â or if you cared about the separation of church and state â you would almost certainly wonder what on earth was going on and why your government was waving the
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