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My city flew a pride flag once and our city council turned around and banned all flags other than the US and state flag. We used to fly many other flags for different heritage months and other reasons, but now they aren't allowed because a few people found a rainbow flag offensive.
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Does Florida not understand what the first amendment is for? Because I'm pretty sure that this is EXACTLY the sort of overreach that it was written to prevent.
They understand it along with all laws to be tools used to bind your enemies and prop up your allies.
The goal of GOP State Rep. David Borrero's legislation is to ban all versions of the LGBTQ pride flag from any and all local government buildings, including schools and universities.
The problem isn't banning political symbols from government buildings, it's that he's calling pride "political".
It is political.
Civil rights ARE political. Anything that relates to governance is political.
The issue isn't that it is political. The issue is that there's a 'side' on this political issue that is wrong. It's not a gotcha to say it is or is not political. The gotcha is "the right wants the violent and total destruction of queer people."
It's not one or the other though, we're both right. It's a problem they they're trying to make pride political, along with banning of speech that causes no harm to anyone. B
ut at least this is so blatantly unconstitutional and subject to be turned around and used against them if it stands that there's no way it will survive a constitutional review.
It's not intended to stick around. It's red meat for the base. "Look, see, we're TRYING to fight the WOKE agenda, but the DEEP STATE is just too powerful! The only way to SAVE YOUR CHILDREN is to help us remove all potential checks and balances to our complete authority."