Department of Public Works employee Eric Batman claims that having to see a Progress Pride flag flying outside the department’s Alhambra, California, headquarters during the month of June effectively forces him to “celebrate, recognize, and solemnize conduct and actions that he views as sin” in conflict with his sincerely held Christian religious beliefs, according to a lawsuit filed in March by anti-LGBTQ+ evangelical nonprofit the Liberty Counsel.
I also think the Progress Pride Flag represents conduct and actions I view as sin. Not like, gender/sexual sin. Design sin.
The rainbow flag was already perfect. The rainbow flag to me says “human behavior exists on a spectrum, and everyone matters”. It’s beautiful, elegant. The stripes don’t represent distinct groups, though sinners (the flag redesigners, not LGBTQ+ people) have tried. The flag itself represents harmony in diversity. You can’t get better than that, no notes.
The Progress flag is meddling with a perfect formula. It takes a perfect symbol to celebrate diversity itself and plasters it with footnotes. By highlighting specific groups that were included by the rainbow in the first place, it just opens the door to more and more complex revisions to include more and more distinct groups. It turns a poignant symbol of broad inclusiveness into a weird patchwork of granular inclusiveness. That would seem like hyperbole if the pictured flag wasn’t already the intersex-inclusive revision.
It’s just sloppy vexillology. The rainbow flag is awesome. Why are we fucking with it?
Hear hear. I refuse to use it for this exact reason. The rainbow flag is such a strong symbol!
It’s very simple. We’ll get rid of the pride flags as soon as they get rid of all the crosses. Fair is fair, after all.
The fucking crosses, man.
You think Jesus ever would want to see another cross again?
Dude wouldn’t be able to take Public Transit in Boston.
If Jesus came back he probably wouldn’t even use the letter “t”.
Imagine resurrecting into a world full of people wearing crosses with you nailed to them all just acting like it’s not fucked
So they can take down the flag but that means no Easter decorations or Christmas decorations and definitely canceling the Christmas holiday because I don’t want to be forced to celebrate your beliefs you weak twat.
Someone should punch him in the throat
Somebody should sue him for suing for seeing a flag. If that’s the way we gon play it.
You know, if youre gonna be this pathetic we should be able to exile you to an island.
Hey… Australia…
I assume this is an effort to create another suit that will get all the way to SCOTUS so that white Christian nationalists get yet another carve-out of everyone else’s civil liberties.
If this works, is it not precedent to make the same complaint every time I see a cross?
Or see “god” anywhere.
Maybe. Sometimes different rules apply to government (public) property vs private.
lmao cry about it idiot
pride is unstoppable 💜💛🤍🩷🩵🤎🖤❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Snowflake much?
His faith must be weak for it to be shaken so easily.
If I exercise my free speech in the woods with no one around to hear it, is it free speech?
Meanwhile my church:
(ALT: The words “The Episcopal Church” in white above a variation of a shield graphic that has a blue field in the upper left with a series of white crosses forming an X shape; pink, blue, brown, black diagonal stripes on the right; the classic Pride rainbow colors of purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red forming the remaining sections with a white cross holding them all together)
EDIT: I tried to use a spoiler tag/format but I apparently suck at that. Sorry. Don’t sue me!
Why do so many right-wing Christians sound like the villain from a Criminal Minds episode?
Like…this MFer thinks he has a right to make other people not exist for his comfort. Fucking psycho when you dig into it.
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