City of Delaware not flying Pride flags this year after Supreme Court ruling

DELAWARE, Ohio — The Metropolis of Delaware’s Pleasure Competition is nearly per week away, however one factor you will not see flying on metropolis poles this 12 months is pleasure flags as a consequence of a Supreme Courtroom ruling from earlier this month.

“It is irritating. It is also very angering, very unhappy,” Co-Chair of Delaware Ohio Pleasure Lee Webb stated.

In Delaware, the town has put its banner and flag program on maintain, proper earlier than Pleasure Month.

“If it isn’t a flag that the town owns or has management over – so the American flag, the state flag, or the Metropolis of Delaware flags – if it isn’t these three, then it isn’t gonna fly,” Webb stated.

This stems from a Supreme Courtroom ruling in Boston after the town denied a gaggle’s request to fly a Christian flag outdoors of Metropolis Corridor. The court docket stated that as a result of the town had not beforehand concerned itself closely in deciding on flags, it isn’t authorities speech, and due to this fact, the town was within the incorrect.

Officers with the Metropolis of Delaware didn’t make themselves accessible for an interview however stated in a observe to these making use of to lift flags that the town is reviewing its program due to this resolution. The town stated this might take a number of months.

However some, together with Webb, are pissed off that the Metropolis of Worthington managed to search out one other manner.

10TV spoke with the Metropolis of Worthington’s legal professional, who stated they’d been engaged on a flag coverage change previous to the court docket ruling. The Worthington Metropolis Council handed a decision that now requires the town council to approve any requests for flags, establishing the flags as authorities speech.

“I would like every little thing to be appropriate, I perceive that, however the truth that there are different cities that discovered one other manner round it to nonetheless fly the flag, it is simply disconcerting,” Webb stated.

Delaware Ohio Pleasure stated companies are nonetheless allowed to fly flags, so that they’re working with native spots to get the flag flown.

Delaware Pleasure is occurring on June 4 and begins at 10 a.m.

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