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Posted on 05/10/2025 7:13:01 PM PDT by Morgana
Salt Lake City, Utah, often referred to as the "Mormon capital of the world," has added transgender and progress pride flags to its new slate of city flags.
The city formally adopted three new city flags on Tuesday in an attempt to skirt a state law prohibiting the flying of LGBT pride flags and other non-official banners at its City Hall.
In addition to its traditional Sego Lily Flag, Salt Lake City adopted three new flags to celebrate what officials called “human rights”: the “Sego Celebration Flag,” marking Juneteenth; the Sego Belonging Flag,” representing the city’s LGBT-identified residents; and the Sego Visibility Flag, to demonstrate the city’s “commitment to seeing and celebrating transgender-identified residents.
The flags will fly alongside the State of Utah and American flags, city officials said.
All three flags feature the sego lily, the city’s most recognized emblem, and were chosen because, officials said, “versions of them have been consistently displayed at City Hall during Mayor [Erin] Mendenhall’s time in office and are representative of our community’s diverse, loving, and accepting values.”
“Our city flags are powerful symbols representing Salt Lake City’s values,” Mendenhall said in a statement. “I want all Salt Lakers to look up at these flags and be reminded that we value diversity, equity and inclusion, leaving no doubt that we are united as a city and people, moving forward together.”
Under Utah’s House Bill 77, which became law in March without the governor's signature, the city cannot display any flags on government property unless they meet the criteria outlined in the bill as an “exempted flag.” By designating the flags as official emblems, the city potentially avoids violating the law.
The law imposes a $500 fine per day on any state or local government buildings that fly any flag that is not the U.S. flag, the state flag, a military flag or a flag from a brief list of exempted ones approved by lawmakers. The state law also prohibits any political flags.
Republican Gov. Spencer Cox told lawmakers in March that while he had concerns about the bill, he would not issue a veto and would allow it to go into law without his signature. He added that he would “urge lawmakers to consider commonsense solutions that address the bill’s numerous flaws.”
“I appreciate that the bill is neutral on the types of flags in question (and I find it strange that no headline reads “MAGA flags banned from classrooms”),” Cox wrote. “I agree with the underlying intent of those legislators who supported this bill in an attempt to bring political neutrality to the classroom. Unfortunately, this bill does not do that.”
Salt Lake City was named the “gayest city in America” in 2012, and had the seventh-highest rate of LGBT-identified population in 2015.
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Any Mormons here and in Utah? How did this happen?
City councildom! And ‘mare’ fidiot.
“While we cannot change the Lord’s doctrine, we want our members and our policies to be considerate of those struggling with the challenges of mortality,” the church said in its message, released during a general conference leadership session of the First Presidency in Salt Lake City.
A news release issued by the church attributed the policy change to “continuing revelation.”
Leftists left California and moved to SLC. They took over the politics there. Same thing here in Reno. It is like a cancer spreading over the country.
2nd Peter 2:6-9
King James Version
6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the Wicked:
8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the Day of Judgment to be punished:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Peter%202%3A6-9&version=KJV
Can Utah ban that lily? It’s a perverted lily.
Everyone struggles with morality issues. That is why we need a Savior. No reason to do away with a moral compass.
Mormons have somewhat of a reputation for being hardworking, pro-American, “taking care of their own”, and storing food for a rainy day.
Nothing wrong with that. But they are not Christian as I understand the term.
And recent Mormon public figures - Harry Reid, Jeff Flake, Orrin Hatch, and Mitt Romney - make me wonder about the thinking of the electors.
Do you believe Mormons to be a moral lot?
🔝🔝🔝
Caring so deeply about who boinks whom where.
I didn’t see this last part. Seems hard to believe but there it is. Bizarre.
(Salt Lake City was named the “gayest city in America” in 2012, and had the seventh-highest rate of LGBT-identified population in 2015.)
I am not “down” with Mormonism as a religion but this is America and I don’t have to be one.
With this said I would have expected better from them in that they would not have allowed this to happen. I know they are very pro family and against the homosexual agenda.
This move really shocks me.
I can’t figure out why good Mormons won’t run for city council and stop this stuff.
(This move really shocks me)
Same here.
This is kind of idiocy I expect from Minneapolis, Toronto, Paris, Ithaca, Austin, Tel Aviv....
That’s the Mormon way..”continual revelation”...they have amassed 200 billion in their secret “trusts”so they’ve been doing pretty good at the revelation..you don’t amass that much money without accommodating certain powerful people.
Wow
this is a shock
all the Mormons I knew were rednecks like me
Times - they are a changin’!
https://askgramps.org/masturbation-no-longer-sin-not-mentioned-handbook/
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