Rudy Canoza
2021-06-11 17:11:48 UTC
Apparently the Federal government is allowing the "pride" flag to be flown over
government installations. This is the government openly endorsing a specific
political agenda.
No need to read past that lie.government installations. This is the government openly endorsing a specific
political agenda.
Meanwhile, here's a good story about an enlightened Republican mayor:
"A conservative mayor heard tearful stories. They changed his mind about flying
the rainbow flag"
When the Fresno City Council voted recently to observe LGBTQ Pride Month by
flying the rainbow flag at City Hall, Mayor Jerry Dyer’s objection was not
surprising.
A Republican who loudly and proudly advertises his faith as a born-again
Christian, the mayor expressed concern about the precedent the left-leaning
council would set and the divisions it would cause. Which other flags should be
honored by the city? What about hoisting religious flags at the futuristic civic
hub?
Throughout the country, fights over flying the pride flag have become a spring
perennial, like crocuses, though far less lovely. And sure enough the 5-2 vote
led to the very division the mayor had hoped to avoid.
Naturally, it turned into a partisan fight as well.
Local Democrats weighed in with a statement extolling the flag raising as a way
“to inspire hope and create a feeling of inclusion.” Local Republicans called
the move “short-sighted and extreme.”
Then Dyer did something unusual. Rather than dig in to his position and swat
away critics, he listened.
He read the emails that flooded his office. He reviewed the hundreds of
voicemails people left. He talked to constituents, at Starbucks and at church.
He heard tearful stories about gay, lesbian and transgender people being
ostracized, or cast aside by family and friends.
He changed his mind.
[...]
A gay friend suggested the mayor attend the pride ceremony at Fresno City
College and, after talking to its president, Dyer showed up among the crowd of
50 or so. He hung back and tried not to draw too much attention.
He listened some more. He was particularly moved, Dyer said later, when the
college president, Carole Goldsmith, “talked about how when she told her parents
for the first time that she was gay ... how she had been asked to leave the
home. How that broke her heart.
“And then the countless stories of other people who had felt excluded,” Dyer
went on, “been excluded from friends that walked away from them, family that
walked away from them, churches that, in their eyes, had excluded them.”
Hours later, just over a week after the council vote, Goldsmith joined Dyer at
an emotional news conference where he announced his change of heart and said he
supported flying the pride flag at City Hall. A formal ceremony is set for Friday.
In an interview, Dyer acknowledged his changed position might cost him support
among fellow Republicans and conservative Christians, but he said the matter
transcended politics. “I have my foundational faith in Christ, I don’t hide
that,” Dyer said. “But I don’t want that to stand in the way of me causing
people to feel loved and supported in our community.”
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-06-10/gay-pride-flag-fresno-mayor-jerry-dyer
Dyer changed his mind because, unlike you, he understands what the *important*
part of Christ's teachings are, and he takes them seriously. You're just a
fucking hypocrite.