It’s like a game of one-sided one-upmanship where one side is trying to use common sense and rationality and the other side is just arguing to get their way because they feel that they’re morally superior when they don’t really have a leg to stand on.
Apparently, the mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah proposed an ordinance where the official flags for the city would include the “pride, transgender visibility, and Juneteenth flags,” which was subsequently “unanimously” passed through the City Council, according to The Salt Lake Tribune.
The Tribune reported:
Hours before a statewide ban on pride and other unsanctioned flags in schools and on government property took effect, Salt Lake City adopted its own versions of the pride, transgender visibility and Juneteenth flags as official city flags — an effort to comply with the law while still flying them and bucking the Republican sponsor’s intent.
The ordinance — proposed by Mayor Erin Mendenhall and passed unanimously Tuesday after powerful statements from City Council members — will see Utah’s capital officially adopt the three flags, each with the addition of a sego lily in one corner, similar to the city’s official flag.
In addition to that floral flag, the city’s newly declared official banners will include: the Sego Belonging Flag to match the rainbow pride flag; the Sego Visibility Flag for the blue, pink and white transgender visibility flag; and the Sego Celebration Flag, a city version of the red, blue and white bursting star flag used to celebrate the end of slavery in the U.S., known as Juneteenth.
While some argue this is a fight between the “woke left” and the annoyingly newly anointed “woke right,” the reality of the situation is that this is most likely being done in order to give a figurative middle finger to the state as a whole and President Donald Trump’s administration.
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During the first week of his second term, Trump’s State Department issued a policy in which only the U.S. flag is allowed to be flown at U.S. embassies and overseas missions, according to Newsweek. Pride flags and other flags, such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) flags, are now prohibited from being flown.
Of course, all of this is also being done in the name of professional victimhood, progressivism and inclusivity so that government officials, like Mayor Mendenhall, can score social justice points amongst other progressives.
Sounds like just another day that ends in “y” with these people. Instead of focusing on issues that affect everyday people, they focus on completely benign topics that don’t matter to the average American.
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