Posted on 06/14/2019 6:26:30 PM PDT by Ennis85
US diplomats have been finding creative ways to show support for LGBTQ+ Pride month after the White House banned them from flying the rainbow flag.
Before this year embassies had routinely hoisted the flag - but this year they were required to seek approval from the state department, which reportedly refused all requests.
On Tuesday Vice-President Mike Pence said the ban was the "right decision".
He said there were no restrictions on pride flags elsewhere on the buildings.
US diplomats have been finding creative ways to show support for LGBTQ+ Pride month after the White House banned them from flying the rainbow flag.
Before this year embassies had routinely hoisted the flag - but this year they were required to seek approval from the state department, which reportedly refused all requests.
On Tuesday Vice-President Mike Pence said the ban was the "right decision".
He said there were no restrictions on pride flags elsewhere on the buildings.
What's behind the White House stance?
"We're proud to be able to serve every American," Mr Pence told NBC, but "when it comes to the American flagpole, and American embassies, and capitals around the world, one American flag flies."
Mr Pence, an evangelical Christian, opposes gay marriage and has a history of supporting anti-LGBTQ+ legislation.
The ban has been backed by prominent evangelical Trump supporter Franklin Graham, who on Sunday tweeted that the gay pride flag was "offensive to Christians and millions of people of other faiths".
Earlier this month an unnamed diplomat told the Washington Post there was a "category one insurrection" against the rainbow flag ban.
How have US missions shown support for Pride?
On Thursday the US Embassy in Jerusalem tweeted a photo of its branch office in Tel Aviv - formerly the embassy before President Trump moved it to Jerusalem - decked
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Demand separation of sodomy and state
Sure because homosexuality is so important. They must be allowed to act out constantly. Let them take the flagpole and shove it where they want it. I’m sick of the Intolerant gay nazis.
Damn the faggots and the lesbies.
They should have no pride in their abomination!!!!
What’s with “LGBTQ+”?
I’ve heard and seen some media people, such as here, using the description LBGTQ+, instead of just LGBT, which has become common.
So now, will we be branded as bigots because we haven’t kept up with what that “Q” and “+” represent, in the universe of people who aren’t into heterosexual sexual feelings?
I need to go to re-education camp anyway, because I don’t know the bulk of the 50+ gender identities which have been described.
The “+” are these mentally-ill categories:
1. Agender
2. Androgyne
3. Androgynous
4. Bigender
5. Cis
6. Cisgender
7. Cis Female
8. Cis Male
9. Cis Man
10. Cis Woman
11. Cisgender Female
12. Cisgender Male
13. Cisgender Man
14. Cisgender Woman
15. Female
16. Female to Male
17. FTM
18. Gender Fluid
19. Gender Nonconforming
20. Gender Questioning
21. Gender Variant
22. Genderqueer
23. Intersex
24. Male
25. Male to Female
26. MTF
27. Neither
28. Neutrois
29. Non-binary
30. Other
31. Pangender
32. Trans
33. Trans*
34. Trans Female
35. Trans* Female
36. Trans Male
37. Trans* Male
38. Trans Man
39. Trans* Man
40. Trans Person
41. Trans* Person
42. Trans Woman
43. Trans* Woman
44. Transfeminine
45. Transgender
46. Transgender Female
47. Transgender Male
48. Transgender Man
49. Transgender Person
50. Transgender Woman
51. Transmasculine
52. Transsexual
53. Transsexual Female
54. Transsexual Male
55. Transsexual Man
56. Transsexual Person
57. Transsexual Woman
58. Two-Spirit
So sick of the deviant Gaystapo forcing their sickness on everyone else.
It was so much better when they were in the closet.
Homosexuality is unnatural in nature. I didn’t use to care one way or the other what they did to themselves, which was usually spreading diseases, but now I’m just sick and tired of them pushing their offensive behavior on everyone else.
Sadly they seem to have brainwashed much of the young which saddens me to no end. C’mon! Eleven year old cross dressing boys!!
In this case the “+” are HIV+, I have no issue with one America under one flag.
Satan is having a blast with this. But God will win in the end.
Did not get past the by-line. No need.
Sodom and Gomorrah
I’m sick of all this LGTBQ $hit being thrown in my face.
Nor do I, but we are so fractured, it’s sad and scary.
Hate to know what that fag candidate buttplug would do if he was president. ....just creeps me out thinking of it..
I thiMk cisgender is spelled wrong. Should it not be pissgender?
I swear if any of these chumps worked for me they would be given an escort to the exit and stripped of their credentials and security clearance. Buh-bye!
Everything associated with the State Department is a metastatic cancer.
I’m old. I still remember back when we could make fun of fags.
What are they proud of exactly? That they can’t figure out the basic biology of slot a, tab b? Or that they were sexually abused as children? Or had domineering mothers or yearn for male approval? What exact trigger or manifestation of their mental disorder are they proud of exactly?
They aren’t proud and they aren’t gay. They are Les Miserables.
It’s like blacks in this country. They keep renaming themselves, but that can’t change who they are. They just think it can.
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