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A Pride flag ban sparks accusations of betrayal in tiny Michigan city
Washington Post via MSN ^ | September 16, 2023 | Allan Lengel

Posted on 09/23/2023 3:11:33 PM PDT by grundle

HAMTRAMCK, Mich. —

...last year, a Muslim who emigrated from Yemen as a teenager became mayor — the city’s first leader in nearly a century with no Polish roots — alongside what is believed to be the nation’s only all-Muslim city council.

Many residents in this tiny enclave just north of downtown Detroit saw these changes as a sign of the Hamtramck’s progressiveness. The Muslim community that had previously experienced discrimination, including voter intimidation and resistance to mosques’ public call to prayer, had finally taken its seats at the table.

Yet the ethnic, cultural and religious diversity that made Hamtramck something of a model is being put severely to the test. In June, after divisive debate, the six-member council blocked the display of Pride flags on city property — action that has angered allies and members of the LGBTQ+ community, who feel that the support they provided the immigrant groups has been reciprocated with betrayal.

“We welcomed you,” former council member Catrina Stackpoole, a retired social worker who identifies as gay, recalls telling the council this summer. “We created nonprofits to help feed, clothe, find housing. We did everything we could to make your transition here easier, and this is how you repay us, by stabbing us in the back?”

Some people, like 23-year-old Selena Briggs, are talking about moving out of the city, saying they no longer feel welcome.

“I don’t feel comfortable to even hold hands with my girlfriend,” said Briggs, a lesbian who works at a cellphone shop on Joseph Campau Street, a main commercial thoroughfare lined with mostly aging store fronts where furniture, clothing, jewelry and cannabis can be bought.

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TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: fagflag; genderdysphoria; hamtramck; homosexualagenda; michigan; rop; sodomiteflag
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1 posted on 09/23/2023 3:11:33 PM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

Elections have consequences


2 posted on 09/23/2023 3:13:50 PM PDT by al baby (I know its the way the measure the cooling capability )
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(“I don’t feel comfortable to even hold hands with my girlfriend,” said Briggs, a lesbian who works at a cellphone shop on Joseph Campau Street, a main commercial thoroughfare lined with mostly aging store fronts where furniture, clothing, jewelry and cannabis can be bought.)

When worlds collide.......


3 posted on 09/23/2023 3:15:02 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: grundle

Alphabet perversion is white supremacy?


4 posted on 09/23/2023 3:16:06 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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It’s still a false dilemma to be forced into a choice between the homosexual agenda and Sharia.


5 posted on 09/23/2023 3:17:02 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: grundle

Michiganistan run outta Americans already? Good thing you got all those miggy refugees.


6 posted on 09/23/2023 3:17:04 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Try That In A Small Town" - Jason Aldean rules!)
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To: grundle

Salena and Catrina. Poor little libbies. First Clintoon loses and now this. Two fine examples of why men wanted to keep females out of politics for so long.


7 posted on 09/23/2023 3:20:15 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Try That In A Small Town" - Jason Aldean rules!)
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To: grundle

Clueless liberals finally getting a clue about Islam.


8 posted on 09/23/2023 3:20:35 PM PDT by FreedomForce
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To: SaveFerris

“We welcomed you,” former council member Catrina Stackpoole, a retired social worker who identifies as gay, recalls telling the council this summer. “We created nonprofits to help feed, clothe, find housing. We did everything we could to make your transition here easier, and this is how you repay us, by stabbing us in the back?”

Catrina, what did you think was going to happen?
Idiots.


9 posted on 09/23/2023 3:21:16 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Olog-hai

The alphabet soup folks should feel lucky the Muslims aren’t throwing them off buildings... yet.


10 posted on 09/23/2023 3:23:13 PM PDT by Mogger
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To: grundle

Looks like the Oregon Ducks are banning Coach Prime flags. LOL


11 posted on 09/23/2023 3:24:59 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: tet68; dfwgator

Cue dfwgator cartoon......


12 posted on 09/23/2023 3:25:26 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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(Many residents in this tiny enclave just north of downtown Detroit saw these changes as a sign of the Hamtramck’s -——progressiveness-——)

Ya gotta love stupid people......


13 posted on 09/23/2023 3:28:28 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: All

Just be happy they aren’t throwing Queers off of roofs (yet)


14 posted on 09/23/2023 3:29:21 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: grundle

Wow, three decades of Hollywood making movies about cruel, corrupt Christians and mild-mannered, misunderstood Muslims, and now the LGBT crowd finds that life is actually not that cut and dried after all.


15 posted on 09/23/2023 3:32:25 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: tet68
Catrina, what did you think was going to happen?
Idiots.

Exactly. Wait until they get full-blown Sharia. There'll be a dedicated multistory building for gay men's punishment. Holes in the ground for stoning adulterous women. Shoplifters can look forward to a public square chopping block suitable for taking hands and heads for more serious crimes.
Oh Yes. Your diversity is going take giant bite out of your woke @$$.

16 posted on 09/23/2023 3:34:36 PM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: grundle

Poetic justice to Christophobic left.


17 posted on 09/23/2023 3:39:49 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Bounced2X

I’m always reminded of that photo of the four European
girls holding the sign, Refugees Welcome.

Wonder what they are thinking now ?


18 posted on 09/23/2023 3:47:07 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: grundle
this is how you repay us, by stabbing us in the back?”

By staying true to their religious principles, you mean? The Muslims never hid what they believed, they were always up-front about their intolerance for the kind of alphabet nonsense Christians have been guilted into accepting. Leftists deceived themselves and now feel betrayed - hilarious.
19 posted on 09/23/2023 3:48:54 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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Taken its seats? It took the entire table !

“ had finally taken its seats at the table.”


20 posted on 09/23/2023 3:57:15 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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