Posted on 10/06/2017 3:08:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
For nearly 40 years, the vibrant rainbow flag of the gay pride movement has come to represent diversity and tolerance. However, a decision by the National Trust to demand 350 of its volunteers at a Jacobean mansion wear the banner or be banished to backroom chores has triggering an angry backlash.
Bosses at Felbrigg Hall in Norfolk wrote to their army of volunteers asking them to all wear a lanyard or badge displaying the rainbow flag to welcome lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer visitors. The email, seen by The Telegraph, reveals that those who refused would not be allowed to meet and greet guests to the 17th Century hall.
The move was part of the Trust’s Prejudice and Pride campaign marking 50 years since the decriminalisation of homosexuality. But it was mired in controversy when the Trust “outed” Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer, the late owner of the hall, last month in a short film narrated by Stephen Fry.
SNIP
“To coincide with the campaign we would like staff and volunteers to wear the rainbow lanyards or badges as this is an internationally recognised symbol of inclusivity,” she says.
“However, we appreciate that we have not given everyone much time to think about this. Ideally we would have had more time to introduce the programme but this has developed very quickly.
“We respect people’s decisions to opt out of wearing the lanyard. If this is the case please come and talk with us and during this period we will ask you not to be on duty in a visitor-facing role.
“By wearing the lanyard we are sending a clear message of welcome to all of our visitors.”
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Jacobean Mansion of Jacobin mansion?
These people can kiss my ass.
Except for those who don't want to celebrate mental illness and sin.
just like a swatstika armband
They are volunteers.
Pack up and leave.
“There’s a group of about 10 of us who have volunteered for more than 10 years, and we’ve now been told that if we don’t toe the line, we can’t do our jobs”
Mike Holmes, National Trust volunteer
Volunteers = choices to not give and damn and walk the hell out.
Yes, but who wins then? Should the left control everything?
Do you believe in equity and decency, they’ll say. Moral compass. Equity. Equally. Decency. Love.
The perversion that “dare not speak its name” will not stop demanding that we listen to their endless chatter.
“For nearly 40 years, the vibrant rainbow flag of the gay pride movement has come to represent diversity and tolerance.”
Nonsense. It represents vast fields of erections covered in fecal matter.
One has to buy a pass to visit these sights. I predict they are about to lose a few quid.
I doubt this was written with a straight face.
Volunteers were asked to wear LGBTQ pride lanyards and badges to show support for the Prejudice and Pride campaign, which saw the National Trust revealing information about the private lives of former residents of their properties, including Felbrigg’s Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer.
In a new film narrated by Stephen Fry, the Trust have outed Mr Ketton-Cremer as gay, exploring the squire’s secret struggle as a homosexual man.
MORE: National Trust reveals Felbrigg Hall’s last lord of the manor as gay in film narrated by Stephen Fry
Felbrigg Hall volunteers who took objection to the exposure of their benefactors’ sexuality and refused to support the campaign were told “they would not be allowed face to face interaction with the public”.
The Trust has since backed down, saying the wearing of the lanyards and badges was “optional and a personal choice” and that it would not affect people’s duties if they chose not to.
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/here-s-what-the-national-media-has-to-say-about-felbrigg-hall-s-volunteer-controversy-1-5136799
Gay Supremacist flag
“Should the left control everything?”
The left should have no voice in anything. Ever.
The left should not be welcome in decent society.
LGBT fascism.
Bow to your masters, breeder
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