" No one wants anyone telling us who we can or can't be with. The bottom line comes at the bottom of the editorial. I don't suppose the YHR editorial board finds that easy to grasp either?
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And in case the YHR hadn't noticed, there is a big difference between allowing for the legality of same sex marriage and full on support for all the LGBTQ lifestyles entail today.Ī lot of people who oppose that prominent placement of the rainbow pride flag do so for deeply held personal religious beliefs. Public polling in support of same sex marriage didn't reach 50% until 2011.
Some of us grasp it just fine.kind of along the lines of grasping the tone deaf, lunacy and insanity of comparing protective health masks to the markers for death of more than 6 million innocent human beings.Īs recently as 2004 President Obama opposed same sex-marriage. After all, it's just the colors of a rainbow, applied in this context for the past 40+ years. "The level of vitriol is hard to grasp." writes the editorialists. The gay pride flag is a collection of colors chosen by a coalition of individuals with multiple varying sexual lifestyle choices. The American Flag is our national emblem. They are showing their colors in posting those colors, but like the Whitehouse, City Hall is the people's house, not the residence of the council and a blank canvass for expressing personal opinions about social issues.
The Council said let's put this flag up and let's put it right here. The message is back off.īesides words or snakes or whatever the image, flags do carry a message and the decision whether to deploy a flag also carries a message. The message is not "Watch Out For Snakes." The message is you better watch yourself. So it's the images on the flag that are somehow the problem? People don't react to the coiled timber rattlesnake on the Gadsden "Don't Tread On Me flag". Just some bright stripes-the colors of the rainbow." YHR- " It doesn't have any letters, stars, skulls, sickles, slogans or menacing-looking snakes. You do? You have to wonder? What about the American flag flying above the pride flag? It's a rectangular piece of cloth too. Do you wonder about the emotions that flag engenders too? I'm gonna guess that the two flags are interchangeable in value as far as the editorial board is concerned and that's too bad and part of the reason why they "have to wonder" about other people's reactions. The opening sentence of the YHR editorial reads - " You have to wonder how a simple rectangular cloth elicits such visceral reactions." In my opinion (isn't that what editorials are?) the editorial misses the mark about some people's reaction to the City Council voting to fly the gay pride rainbow flag -on the same pole as the American Flag or even to fly it all. Cringe two is the editorial in today's (6/15/21) Yakima Herald Republic (YHR) titled - Why Would A Rainbow On A Flag Threaten You? That's OK, I will knowingly take that risk.
Today's Cringe #2 My response to this may make you cringe yourself. (sigh).but it certainly qualifies as cringe-worthy. Somebody with a greater ability to read a room than she, must have gotten through to her because her apology was clear and even seemed sincere "I’m truly sorry for offending people with remarks about the Holocaust. There’s no comparison and there never ever will be." Yah think? People make mistakes. Supposedly, (I say supposedly because it was Speaker Pelosi and can you take anything she says at face value?) but supposedly the mask mandate was intended to stop the Coronavirus and to help keep House members alive - while the gold star singled out the Jews and marked them for extermination at death camps. In the most simplistic and clueless comparison, the House members were told they had to wear masks while Greene compared that to, "a time and history where people were told to wear a gold star." Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia apologized yesterday for her recent comparison of members of Congress being required to wear face masks in the House to the Jewish Holocaust.