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  • Preferrred Courtroom Laws Towards Boston In Christian Flag Case

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Preferrred Courtroom dominated Monday that Boston violated the loose speech rights of a conservative activist when it refused his request to fly a Christian flag on a flagpole outdoor Town Corridor.

    Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the courtroom that town discriminated towards the activist, Harold Shurtleff, as a result of his “non secular standpoint,” despite the fact that it had automatically authorized packages for the usage of probably the most 3 flagpoles outdoor Town Corridor that fly the U.S., Massachusetts and Boston flags.

    Once in a while, town takes down its personal pennant and quickly hoists any other flag.

    Shurtleff and his Camp Charter sought after to fly a white banner with a purple pass on a blue background within the higher left nook, known as the Christian flag.

    Breyer stated the case hinged on whether or not the flag-flying is an act of the federal government, wherein case Boston can do no matter it needs, or personal events like Shurtleff.

    Breyer wrote that “town’s loss of significant involvement within the choice of flags or the crafting in their messages leads us to categorise the flag raisings as personal, now not govt, speech—regardless that not anything prevents Boston from converting its insurance policies going ahead.”

    The town has stated that within the tournament of a loss on the Preferrred Courtroom it almost certainly will exchange its coverage to take extra keep an eye on of what flags can fly.

    The case is Shurtleff v. Boston, 20-1800.

  • BJP’s Christian outreach in Goa with 30 in line with cent tickets

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    MUMBAI: Whilst the BJP is contesting on a Hindutva time table in states like Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, in Goa it has modified tack because it realises that the street to energy lies by way of the Christian vote financial institution. Of the 40 applicants fielded by way of the celebration, 12, i.e., 30 in line with cent, are Christians.

    The Christians include 25-27 in line with cent vote base in Goa, 2d biggest after Hindus. Alternatively, Hindus don’t vote as a block. Previous, the BJP had attempted its process of Hindu votes’ consolidation within the coastal state however that didn’t paintings. 

    “With Hindu vote financial institution politics, BJP by no means crossed 10 seat-mark in Goa Meeting. This time, it has determined to house as many minority applicants as imaginable. Whether or not that works or now not shall be attention-grabbing to look as a result of different events also are banking at the identical vote financial institution within the identify of secular politics,” stated a political observer.

    A few of the BJP’s Christian candidate is Atanasio Monserrate, who has been fielded from Panaji denying price ticket to former leader minister Manohar Parrikar’s son Utpal. A BJP chief admitted that the celebration sought after to ship out a message to the minority group by way of who prefer Monserrate over Utpal.

    Apparently, Manohar Parrikar had a excellent fortify base a number of the Christian group, which helped him and the BJP stay in energy for a very long time.

    “Now, Parrikar isn’t round whilst his son Utpal has posed a problem to the authentic BJP candidate. By way of denying price ticket to Utpal, we have now despatched a message to the Christians that Monserrate is extra necessary than him,” the chief stated.

    The BJP had fielded six Christian applicants in 2012 elections and 7 in 2017. Each occasions, a majority of these applicants romped house. After 10 Congress MLAs joined the BJP in 2019, BJP’s Catholic MLAs’ in tally rose to fifteen.