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Trump admin tells U.S. embassies they can't fly pride flag on flagpoles
« on: June 07, 2019, 09:49:47 pm »
Trump admin tells U.S. embassies they can't fly pride flag on flagpoles
MSN News, Jun 7, 2019, NBC

The Trump administration is rejecting requests from U.S. embassies to fly the rainbow pride flag on embassy flagpoles during June, LGBT Pride Month, three American diplomats tell NBC News.

The U.S. embassies in Israel, Germany, Brazil and Latvia are among those that have requested permission from Trump's State Department to fly the pride flag on their flagpoles and have been denied, diplomats said.

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During the Obama administration, the government granted blanket permission to embassies overseas to fly the pride flag during June. This year, U.S. diplomats said, embassies were told they can display the pride flag other places, including inside embassies, but that requests to fly it on the flagpole must be specifically approved. No approvals have been granted.

More:  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-admin-tells-us-embassies-they-cant-fly-pride-flag-on-flagpoles/ar-AACy7hR?ocid=spartanntp
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Re: Trump admin tells U.S. embassies they can't fly pride flag on flagpoles
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2019, 09:51:23 pm »
This is what's being denied:   :thumbsup:

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Re: Trump admin tells U.S. embassies they can't fly pride flag on flagpoles
« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2019, 10:12:18 pm »
The government needs to stay out of people's bedrooms, right?
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Re: Trump admin tells U.S. embassies they can't fly pride flag on flagpoles
« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2019, 10:26:49 pm »
Fagtastic. 
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Re: Trump admin tells U.S. embassies they can't fly pride flag on flagpoles
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Re: Trump admin tells U.S. embassies they can't fly pride flag on flagpoles
« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2019, 11:56:48 pm »
You mean all thothe ambathadorth will have to fly them on the carth?
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Re: Trump admin tells U.S. embassies they can't fly pride flag on flagpoles
« Reply #6 on: June 08, 2019, 02:33:22 am »
Good how did we ever get to the point that we think someone's choice of who to have sex with deserves national recognition?  A flag?  Come on!  We are Americans not Gaymericans.
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Re: Trump admin tells U.S. embassies they can't fly pride flag on flagpoles
« Reply #7 on: June 08, 2019, 02:55:35 am »
I apologize but I am so sick and tired of this bullshit.

Being LGBT is NOT a Superpower.

Thank you, President Trump.
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Re: Trump admin tells U.S. embassies they can't fly pride flag on flagpoles
« Reply #8 on: June 08, 2019, 03:01:09 am »
If any of these guys was a Mecca Worshipper
They would be tortured for days
And eventually thrown off the top of a building.
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Re: Trump admin tells U.S. embassies they can't fly pride flag on flagpoles
« Reply #9 on: June 08, 2019, 03:23:43 am »
Quote from: Right_in_Virginia on June 07, 2019, 09:51:23 pm
This is what's being denied:   :thumbsup:


Isn't placing a flag under another an international symbol for the lower flag being a conquered or subsidiary entity to the flag above it? In other words, it's a symbol that America has conquered homosexuality.

Which, of course, we haven't.
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Re: Trump admin tells U.S. embassies they can't fly pride flag on flagpoles
« Reply #10 on: June 08, 2019, 08:25:12 am »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on June 08, 2019, 03:23:43 am
Isn't placing a flag under another an international symbol for the lower flag being a conquered or subsidiary entity to the flag above it? In other words, it's a symbol that America has conquered homosexuality.

Which, of course, we haven't.
Is that why State flags flown on the same pole are below the American Flag?
I don't think that is quite right. I think it is because America is supposed to be the primary allegiance.

In this case, I am skeptical of the heraldry aspects.
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