Satanic Temple applies to fly flag in front of Boston City Hall after Christian Supreme Court win

The Satanic Temple isn’t a group of devout worshippers of Satan. Instead, it’s a group of people who organize as a religion and use humor to “highlight religious hypocrisy and encroachment on religious freedom.”

Here, they’re bringing attention to a unanimous Supreme Court ruling from earlier this week that said that, since the city of Boston allows the rainbow flag and the transgender flag to fly on a flagpole outside City Hall, they have to allow a Christian group called Camp Constitution to fly the Christian flag. The city had argued that the flagpole can only be used for secular flags because otherwise the government would appear to endorse a religion.

While the case involved religious beliefs, the Supreme Court ruled on free speech grounds, saying that since the city of Boston allows so many diverse groups to use the flagpole in events and for flags and offers little oversight, it can’t prevent religious groups from using it as well.

And that’s something the Satanic Temple is trying to take advantage of. The only problem is that they have several flag designs and are still trying to decide which one “might be best for this specific purpose,” Greaves said.