Posted on 04/23/2021 9:34:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
Secretary of State Antony Blinken will allow U.S. diplomatic outposts to fly the Pride flag alongside the U.S. flag, in a reversal from the State Department under his predecessor, Mike Pompeo.
Blinken, in a confidential cable obtained by Foreign Policy, gave the authorization to fly the Pride flag ahead of May 17, which is the international day against homophobia, transphobia, and biphobia, and before Pride month begins in June.
However, this authorization does include a caveat saying that the heads of a mission or embassy can choose whether or not to fly the flag based on if it’s "appropriate in light of local conditions."
One internal State Department cable warns that in certain countries, expressing support for legalizing or decriminalizing same-sex relationships could hurt U.S. diplomatic efforts.
"Posts should support efforts to repeal [criminalization] legislation, while ensuring that ‘do no harm’ remains our overarching principle so U.S. efforts do not inadvertently result in backlash or further marginalization of the LGBTQI+ community," according to the cable.
Pompeo prohibited embassies from flying the Pride flag on the same pole as the U.S. flag, saying that they would instead display symbols of Pride elsewhere. Then-Vice President Mike Pence said at the time that "when it comes to the American flagpole and American embassies and capitals around the world, one American flag flies."
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Outrageous!
Russia and China laugh at us and now we are weak.
All for Faggotry they surrender...
However, I must ask, didn’t it fly at our Embassies with Trump, as well?
It’s not as if the gay thing really was all that big of a deal with Trump.
A local bar here a few years back tried to become a ‘gay friendly’ establishment and started flying the rainbow flag outside on it’s front.
Business tanked hard and they took it down.......................
I was critical of that too.
I’ve said it more than once, if Gay Marriage wasn’t imposed by SCOTUS, Trump never gets the 2016 nomination. But he never had to address the issue, which kept him safe with Social Conservatives.
Homo-fascism is real.
Two can play at that game:
Hahahaha, gotta love those Russians.
Disgusting degradation of our nation, making it seem like our country is full of nothing but perverts. G-d forbid they should fly a flag denoting the courage of our troops. But Dimmocommies already have nothing but contempt for our beloved country anyway. They are putrid TRASH.
You’re correct.
Also if Hillary and company hadn’t made sure to talk up Trump because they thought he was gonna be easy to beat he might not have got the nomination either.
Add to that that Trump didn’t create a populist movement, he rode one already simmering. He fought back. The progressives were so unused to people fighting back they worked themselves into an absolute snit fit that lasts to this very day.
And the wussified RNC acts like fighting back is the road to defeat?
The country once known as the “United States of America” has morphed into “Queer Nation”. All diplomatic relationships are modified therewith.
To assure parity and understanding, only representatives from other countries that comply with the guidelines for LGBTQ+ will be recognized as official envoys to the US State Department.
(I only WISH I was being sarcastic.)
I live in Russia and can say with 100% certainty that what you say is correct!
Can’t blame them.
I have often accused the State Department of working for something its members love more than their country - largely because it’s true - and now we know what that is: their genitalia.
Norm McDonald on gay pride.
LANGUAGE ALERT!!!!
NOT FOR WORK OR FOR CHILDREN OR SENSITIVE ADULTS!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX_gUQeZcB8
Apparently a lot of sinners believe that Sodom and Gomorrah was a joke . . . well, the joke is going to be on them when the fire falls.
America has killed babies by the millions, and now they want to screw up the minds of those that survived the abortion mills.
God is not happy!
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