Louisiana Republican Introduces Bill To Ban LGBT Rainbow Flag From Public Buildings
But would a Confederate Flag have upset Mr. Green?
A city councilman in Louisiana is drafting a new set of ordinances that would ban the flying of rainbow flags on any public property after a constituent took umbrage with one such flag that was raised by a local LGBT organization.
In celebration of National Pride Month and the demise of the Defense of Marriage Act last month, members of the LGBT community in Lafayette, Louisiana gathered in Girard Park for the annual Pride in the Park celebration. Local paper The Daily Advertiser was there to cover the event, and ran a photo in the next day’s paper of participants hoisting the rainbow flag that has come to represent the LGBT community.
Ray Green, a veteran of the Korean War, saw the photograph and brought it to the attention of Andy Noquin, a City-Parish councilman, who is now drafting legislation that would outlaw the flying of the rainbow flag — and any other non-government flag — in any public venue.
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http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/07/07/2261821/louisiana-republican-introduces-bill-to-ban-lgbt-rainbow-flag-from-public-buildings/
Ray Green on Friday said he “did not go overseas and fight for our country so that we could come back and be subject to something like that,” the Daily Advertiser reports:
“Several of us (veterans) feel that the flying of this flag is a poke in the eye of a way of life.”
Green said it is their right to fly the flag, but not on government property. He asked what would happen if someone wanted to fly a Ku Klux Klan flag at Girard Park.
http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/vet-whos-not-against-the-gays-compares-gay-flag-flying-in-local-park-to-kkk-flag/politics/2013/07/06/70622
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