Lt. Gov. John Fetterman chose to defy a state law by displaying a LGBTQIA+ flag on his balcony on the exterior of the Pennsylvania Capitol to mark the beginning of Pride Month.
Posted on 06/01/2021 2:57:28 PM PDT by lightman
June is Pride Month and an illegal flag displayed outside of Pennsylvania Capitol on Tuesday marked the occasion.
Lt. Gov. John Fetterman chose to mark the beginning of this month celebrating LGBTQ culture and rights by once again, displaying a Pride flag on the balcony of his state Capitol office, despite knowing a law exists prohibiting it. A law passed in 2020 bars the display of any flag other than the American, Pennsylvania or POW/MIA flags on the exterior of the Pennsylvania Capitol.
”The LGBTQIA+ flags that I fly from my office are technically breaking a law,” he said in a statement. “Yet, Pennsylvania law does not explicitly protect the LGBTQIA+ community from discrimination. This must change. We must never stop pushing for equal protection under the law in Pennsylvania and across the country.”
Fetterman’s flag was confiscated by Department of General Services employees over the lunch hour while staffers were at lunch, said Christina Kauffman, Fetterman’s spokeswoman. She said he has made it clear he intends to replace it with another one.
“It’s Pride Month,” Kauffman said.
The 2020 flag banning law was initiated by House Republicans in response to the lieutenant governor’s displaying of flags on his balcony directly over the main entrance to the Capitol promoting LGBTQIA+ rights and recreational marijuana legalization.
The Republicans said at the time the flag ban is intended to “develop decorum and uniformity for what is displayed at the Capitol.”
Fetterman tweeted back then that he found it “kinda flattering that they changed Pennsylvania law just for me.” 10
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But the passage of that law has not stopped the lieutenant governor from displaying banners carrying symbols of issues that he has championed even before his election as lieutenant governor in 2018 – only to have representatives from the state Department of General Services visit his office to remove the flags.
Initially, Kauffman said the General Services employees removed the flags from the balcony and left them folded in the lieutenant governor’s office. When Fetterman persisted in displaying them, she said General Services employees began confiscating them. So far, she said about 10 flags have been taken.
“Lieutenant Governor Fetterman plays an essential role in carrying out Pennsylvania laws. By his continued defiance of the law that was passed by the General Assembly and signed by Governor Wolf, he continues to set a poor example to Pennsylvanians about what it means to respect the rule of law in this commonwealth,” said House GOP spokesman Jason Gottesman on Tuesday.
Fetterman, who officiated the first same sex marriage in Allegheny County in 2013 when it was still banned in this state, said the way to get him to stop displaying his flags is for the General Assembly to pass laws legalizing marijuana and extending the state’s anti-discrimination protections to the LGBTQIA+ community.
Legislative efforts to do both have been introduced in several sessions but fail to gain much traction.
Lt. Gov. John Fetterman chose to defy a state law by displaying a LGBTQIA+ flag on his balcony on the exterior of the Pennsylvania Capitol to mark the beginning of Pride Month.
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If they keep adding crap to their flag in a couple years they can just fly well-used drop cloths.
Looks like a skittles wrapper
And this large piece of garbage is running for Senate seat.
“...technically breaking a law...”
So he’s now deciding what laws to follow? What if a business owner, (like perhaps a cake shop), decided to not serve homosexual patrons. Would that be OK as well? Or is law breaking only aloud for leftest politicians?
We know the answer. /spit.
I just guess that everybody knows that this degenerate lawbreaker is a democRAT. I didn’t see that mentioned in the article.
Time to get over that hangup...
“ Time to get over that hangup... ”
Long past time.
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Yup, Fetterman is obsessed with legalizing recreational weed...and other far left causes.
He is the leading Donk candidate for the Senate.
*** to mark the beginning of Pride Month. ***
The beginning of “Boy, can you squeal like a pig?” Month!
“Yet, Pennsylvania law does not explicitly protect the LGBTQIA+ community from discrimination. This must change. We must never stop pushing for equal protection under the law in Pennsylvania and across the country.”
SuperStraight Month celebrations for us!
The bottom of that barrel has got to be mighty thin, then. Y’all can’t do better than that?
All these ‘XX Month’ have to end - you get one day and that’s it.
Can I fly a Straight Pride flag if I was a Pennsylvania state Senator? I can’t believe different flags for crazy people.
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Great memes on this page:
https://superhappyfunamerica.org/straight-pride/
Could post a new one every day during “Pride Month”. hehehe
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