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IMHO, I don't see the harm in it, just fly the stars and stripes above the Irish flag.
Good point, or right next to it. I included the link, in case my picture copy/paste effort failed.
In the Nation's Capital
The Irish flag next to the American one has been flying for as long as I can remember and if there was an issue with it flying, it would most likely have been addressed by now.
Funny. In most of these cases where someone will post that someone is being stopped from flying "the flag" we learn that it's part of an overall scheme prohibiting all kinds of flags and signs or something like that.
Here we have a specific prohibition of speech based on the content of that speech. This is clearly unconstitutional.
All you conservatives who are saying that this prohibition is wrong, would you support the ACLU if they take the bar owner's case and sue the city?
It's actually not unconstitutional. Flags and banners can be regulated just like any other signage. It is something that draws attention to and often advertises a businesses and case law treats it as such. Where the town may run afoul, and I don't know Florida's statutes, is that they ban all flags except the American flag. Here in my state the town could ban all flags or regulate the size of the flags and the number allowed, but they can't regulate the content of the flag so long as it conforms to local obscenity laws.
It's actually not unconstitutional. Flags and banners can be regulated just like any other signage. It is something that draws attention to and often advertises a businesses and case law treats it as such. Where the town may run afoul, and I don't know Florida's statutes, is that they ban all flags except the American flag. Here in my state the town could ban all flags or regulate the size of the flags and the number allowed, but they can't regulate the content of the flag so long as it conforms to local obscenity laws.
You see, you totally missed my point.
You're absolutely correct that content-neutral regulation of signs and banners is not unconstitutional.
What is unconstitutional, and what I said, is to regulate signs, banners, and other types of speech based on the content of the speech. This is exactly what the ordinance in question does. Hence, it is unconstitutional.
welcome to the PC nation of the USA. the way that liberals want the government.
Yeah, right. If this were a mexican bar & they had the mexican flag flying, you'd be all up in arms. Those damn immigrants!!! How dare they fly the mexican flag instead of our flag.
I think it the height of bad taste and an expression of ingratitude to fly another flag unless the American flag flies above it, but I can't abide making it illegal.
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