The City of Boston Flies a Flag Designed For Everyone by Gilbert Baker on a Flag Pole Which Now Sits Before the Supreme Court — Source: Boston.gov

Red Flags Are Flying at the Supreme Court

What the Big City Case Could Learn From Main Street America

Part One: A Story About Carrie Evans
Part Two: Not A Story About Carrie Evans
Part Three: Why Not A Pride Flag In Minot?

The Supreme Court case Shurtleff v. Boston would not exist but for Coney Island, New York. The Brooklyn borough’s original inhabitants — a Native American Tribe named the Lenape — referred to the peninsula as Narrioch, which roughly translates to ‘always in light.’ At the turn of the twentieth century, the home of the world’s first roller coaster more than lived up to the moniker. In that way, the ecumenical Christian Flag shares a lot in common with the Pride Flag in that they were both born of celebration.

And I contend that both, among others, are now set before the Supreme Court.

In 1895, Coney Island Welcomed Sea Lion Park Which, by the Turn of the Century, Included Flip Flap Railway

For the papal faithful, it may surprise that America’s Playground was also the birthplace of the Christian Flag. But at the center of its creation was a common creator, a teacher. The man tasked with teaching Sunday school the day the Christian Flag was created was Charles C. Overton…