Sure, but the context of the provenance is fairly well-established, and it wasn’t a Daughters of the Confederacy tea. It was a Sunday school class in Brooklyn. And was then picked up by a very nonracial ecumenical org (see the number of Black churches that were members at an early date).
As an Assistant (to the) Minister, I’d just like to chime in with “WTF?”
I’ve never seen this “Christian” flag (well, come to think of it, I do remember a white flag in one church, but it was draped around a vertical pole, so it just looked like a flag of surrender.
As if Christianity isn’t militaristic and politicized enough, now it needs a flag??? And an ugly one, to boot.
(Christian rodeo pun intended)
And you called it.
I think Kagan is right. It’s hard to argue that allowing a flag to fly next to the US and State flags doesn’t represent some level of State endorsement of that flag and what it represents. And the First Amendment prevents the State from discriminating against anyone in offering that endorsement, so the whole thing is just a really bad idea.
I think one of the Satanic Temple flags would look really sharp flying in front of Boston City Hall. Brutalist architecture and Satanic imagery make a great combination. Sadly, I predict it’s not going to happen.