State bill would ban flying most flags on government property
Lake Worth Beach's pride flag outside City Hall would be in violation
and ironically, the city has gone all out to celebrate PRIDE this weekend.The U.S. flag, the Florida flag and the six-color gay pride flag fly outside Lake Worth Beach City Hall.
"We respect the United States flag of America of course," Lake Worth Beach Mayor Betty Resch said. "It's always going to be right on top, but every community has its own flavor." She said her city is inclusive to all people, including the LGBTQ+ community. "It's a symbol of letting people know that they're welcome and that we're celebrating who they are," she said.
"It feels very intrusive to have the legislature in Tallahassee tell us what flags we can fly on our streets," Resch said.
So, from this article, it seems those who "love diversity" have not made a decision to respect the new state law that will be in effect on July 1.
Read about it...
Everyone knows that Lake Worth Beach has a large population of LGBTQ's and other minorities. Flags of this nature should be flown on private property.
Under the proposed law, Senate bill 668, governmental entities and their officers and employees would only be allowed to display the following listed flags:
United States flag
State of Florida flag
Flag of the Confederate states
Flag of the United Nations
POW-MIA flag
Flags of foreign nations
Flags that represent the branches of the United States Armed Forces and the Florida National Guard
Flags of Florida’s counties, municipalities, public universities, and colleges
Flag of the Olympics
Flags indicating beach warnings
Anyone at the parade? Report back.
ReplyDeleteFlags of foreign nations? WTF?? I believe that only the United States flag and the Florida flag should be flown on our governmental bldgs.
ReplyDeleteThis post is wrong. The story that this post links to says the law would only allow the state flag, the U.S. flag, the POW-MIA flag or the official state firefighter memorial flag.
ReplyDeleteThe story has a link to the actual proposed law which says the same thing.
The post is correct. The link does not go far enough.
ReplyDeletehttps://news.yahoo.com/florida-bill-proposes-allowing-only-175938334.html
If you read the articles, there are two separate bills: one is the House bill and one is the Senate bill.
ReplyDeleteYour blog post and the WPTV report is about the House bill. The Yahoo story is about the Senate bill.
You're quoting the Senate bill and referencing the House bill.
Which isn't surprising.
@9:06...there wasn't an article talking about two bills.
ReplyDeleteShould I have invented one?
I listed what is in the Senate bill after the link.
Surprising I did that? LOL
To the unhappy anonymous poster who has zero credibility, stop whining and read the link that was provided."Reading is fundamental" as you said in your stupid post that was declined.
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