And heaven forbid someone would want to fly the Gadsden flag.
Posted on 06/07/2021 7:09:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Biden Pentagon has gone all-in on subjecting the American military to the worst excesses of the social justice movement: Troops are being indoctrinated into Critical Race Theory and the Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin, has ominously announced that he’s going to purge all extremists – and he doesn’t mean jihadists who are plotting America’s downfall. Using January 6 as a hook, it’s clear he intends to get rid of Trump supporters and others with similar traditional American values (liberty, strong borders, strong economy, colorblind society, etc.). In a startling moment of sanity, however, the Pentagon has announced that it will not fly the gay rainbow Pride flags.
It turns out that the Defense Department is being forced to reckon with its own rule from last year about displaying flags, a rule that it put into place to ban Confederate flags from military installations:
The decision came after a reevaluation of existing policy put in place last year to ban the display of Confederate flag without specifically naming it.
Authorized flags include the American flag, flags representing US states and territories, prisoners of war and flags of US allies as well as a few others.
Defense officials had decided against making an exception for the Pride flag.
Of course, the decision came with a grovel:
‘This in no way reflects any lack of respect or admiration for people of the LGBTQ+ community, personnel in and out of uniform who serve in this department,’ Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters Friday. ‘We’re proud of them.’
Kirby said there was concern for the potential that ‘other challenges’ could arise should an exception be made for one flag.
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It’s not that the Pentagon bureaucrats are opposed to following any illegitimate order, it’s that they can’t fly a rainbow flag in predominantly Muslim countries without being told to close the base and leave.
It sounds like the Democrats want to turn the military into a recruiting ground for perverts.
They can’t reproduce so they must recruit.
I didn’t realize there were so many sodomites in our military.
We had, at one time, a military who had the job of killing people and breaking things. Now we have a social experiment.
If only the Vatican had such vision.....
My “pride flag” is a Magen David that waves just below Old Glory at my house.
I think someone went up to the idiots in charge and just asked....couldn’t ‘Cherokee-nation’ flags, ‘Irish-American’ flags, and ‘VFW’ flags be regularly flown as well? That probably brought the leadership back to the stance that we just need to honor the US flag, and the 50 state flags.
The individuals who do this are a shame upon the Military. Check Takers, nothing more.
We salute one flag and the fag flag ain’t it.
“The Pentagon puts a halt to Pride flags: Considering how the military has embraced social justice this is a pleasant surprise”
If the American Thinker really was, they would never use the term “social justice” unless it was in quotation marks.
Lloyd Austin is an embarrassment as SecDef.
Yeah, and I would have thought they would have had a plain brown flag instead of that ridiculous rainbow thing.
And heaven forbid someone would want to fly the Gadsden flag.
I think the military got so ridiculed (including by other nations) for stupid stuff such as their cartoon “neurotic Heather has two mommies” recruiting ads that somebody further up the chain had the common sense to put a stop to at least one little sign of gay fever.
Incidentally, I saw an Army recruiting ad last night in a local pub that was all about fighting, using high tech weapons, going into space, doing adventurous stuff.etc. It also had high production values. And yes, they managed to work in a woman, but she was doing high-tech adventurous stuff and not lamenting her neuroses and finding her cure in the gay Army...
The SecDef suffers from mental sodomy, with his Hotel being stuck up his Alpha.
I think the troops in the ranks caused this “re-evaluation”.
There aren't. It's the civilian leadership mandating all this crap.
Uh huh, we’ll see how long that lasts.
More good news, the idiots across from us took down their Biden and LGBT flags this weekend. Guess those were eating into their vacay rentals.
Was it austin himself who issued the order? If so, he’ll have to fire himself as one of the “extremists” he’s vowed to exterminate.
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