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The U.S. Supreme Court today continued an ominous trend in agreeing to take an appeal regarding a demand that a Christian flag be flown over Boston City Hall.

The high court announced that it will hear the case, Shurtleff v. City of Boston, which will determine whether the city violated the free speech clause by refusing to fly a Christian group’s blatantly sectarian flag.

The organization, called Camp Constitution, had demanded that the city display the Christian flag, which features a blue rectangle in the corner with a blood-red Latin cross. This is the same flag that was paraded by Christian nationalists, intermingled with symbols of white supremacy, during the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, FFRF points out.

Today’s development signals there are at least four justices on the high court who disagree with the appeals court’s reasoning in the case, which held LINK that flags on the city’s flagpoles constitute government speech. Therefore, the city is “entitled to select the views that it wants to express,” the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled, quoting a 2009 Supreme Court case.

Boston’s City Hall has three flagpoles, one that flies the U.S. flag along with the POW/MIA flag, one that flies the Massachusetts flag and a third flagpole flying the city flag. Occasionally, another flag replaces the city flag with city approval for limited periods of time. The Supreme Court seems inclined to hand over that space for an obviously majoritarian religious display.

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Not only does this decision enshrine the right of publicly funded organisations to discriminate against LGBTQ people, it will also rob vulnerable children of the chance to go to loving, supportive homes. Secularism can never be taken for granted.

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Imran Khan urges Muslim states to pressure West over Prophet insults In a televised address on Monday, Imran Khan called on other Muslim-majority countries to lobby Western governments to criminalise insulting the Prophet Mohammed.

Supreme Court conservatives may reset balance between LGBTQ rights and religious liberty The Supreme Court weighs the rights of conservative Christians who oppose same-sex marriages.

‘Terrible days ahead’: Afghan women fear the return of the Taliban After 20 years of liberty, female education is once again threatened by hardline Islamists

Secularism is a feminist issue Ahead of the FiLiA 2019 conference this weekend, Megan Manson argues that secularism is a crucial ingredient in campaigns for women's equality. Read More »

It's so important that the results of the census be as accurate as possible. ✅

If you aren't religious, please do say to - your choice has consequences!

Census day is on the 21 March. If you're not religious, say so! Tick 'No Religion' in the 2021 Census ✅

Key information:
The data on religion produced by the last Census gave a very misleading picture of the UK, cutting the number of non-religious people in half.

This is because the question is worded in a way that leads people to tick a religious option by presuming you are religious.

We’re reminding people who do not believe in or practise a religion to reflect that honestly in the Census. The results of the Census affect everyone. So if you’re not religious, please, say so!

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Visit our website for all the key information, including our guidance for filling the Census in: http://bit.ly/2ZRL1xk

No Place for Science in the Supreme Court's Christian America | Center for Inquiry Josh Lyman in The West Wing described Friday as “take out the trash day.” On Friday, the fictional White House would release as many of its bad news stories as possible, in the knowledge that they would be reported in Saturday’s newspapers, because, so the thinking went, no one reads Saturday....

Turkey's Erdogan denounces LGBT youth as police arrest students President Erdogan denounces the LGBT movement as police arrest students demonstrating in Istanbul.