Posted on 03/19/2025 3:40:49 PM PDT by Morgana
A furious Washington state mayor hit out at a LGBTQ activist who compared the Pride flag to a Prisoner of War-Missing in Action flag, seemingly suggesting the ultimate sacrifice made by American soldiers of foreign battlefields was somehow comparable to living in the US with miscellaneous sexual preferences.
The takedown unfolded on Tuesday night as the local council for the city of Newcastle, about 12 miles east of Seattle, voted to approve DEI policies and climate change goals into planning.
During the public hearing the activist attacked Mayor Robert Clark over his move last year to try and stop the Pride flag from being flown at City Hall.
The woman claimed that Clark had intentionally flown the POW/MIA flag in the month of June to stop the Pride flag from going up.
She said: 'There are 82,000 Americans registered as POW's and MIA's, but there's 20 million minimum LGBTQ members.
'I've talked before about the hypocrisy and I think that your approach to trying to trick people out of having to fly the Pride flag in June by making sure the POW-MIA flag was flown is really disgusting', the woman also said it was shameful.
Outraged, Clark said: 'It's not common that I respond to public comment, but I will not sit here and have somebody tell me that veterans are a political stunt. How dare you.
'This country was founded because veterans lost their lives, hundreds of thousands of people died for this country so you could fly your Pride flag.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
All these alphabet brain damaged people get whole months whereas our military/veterans get one day.
Such an outrage.
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