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Transgender pride flag raised at Boston City Hall
Associated Press ^ | May 2, 2016 5:50 PM EDT | Steve LeBlanc

Posted on 05/02/2016 3:55:16 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Mayor Marty Walsh says a transgender pride flag raised Monday over Boston City Hall plaza will continue to fly until everyone is equal under the law in Massachusetts.

The Democratic mayor and other elected officials joined activists in raising the flag of blue, pink, and white horizontal stripes as state lawmakers continue to weigh a bill that would extend protections to transgender individuals in public places.

Republican Gov. Charlie Baker hasn’t said whether he would sign the measure, which would expand a 2011 state law banning discrimination against transgender people in the workplace and housing by also prohibiting discrimination in restaurants, malls and other public accommodations, including restrooms or locker rooms. …

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: allamericangirl44; bluezones; boston; cityhall; homosexualagenda; massachusetts; transgender
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To: Cyclone59

Yep


21 posted on 05/02/2016 4:28:38 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Olog-hai

From Mumbles to Stumbles, a legacy of Boston’s last two mayors.


22 posted on 05/02/2016 4:29:03 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: gaijin

Good lord almighty


23 posted on 05/02/2016 4:29:32 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (After 17 years & nearly 12,000 FR posts later, AiT here with FRontline Freeping & news from Asia)
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To: Olog-hai

Wow, this is really weird. So many very important issues in the US, and the most important for the Democratic Party is, crossdressers.


24 posted on 05/02/2016 4:31:49 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: Olog-hai

“Dweeeeeeee!”


25 posted on 05/02/2016 4:34:51 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Olog-hai

burn that flag and it is a hate crime. burn an american flag and get invited to the white house


26 posted on 05/02/2016 4:36:14 PM PDT by StCloudMoose
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To: Olog-hai

They wanted “SSM,” and got it. The only thing left is, of course, the persecution of Christians — the whole idea in the first place.


27 posted on 05/02/2016 4:37:19 PM PDT by WKTimpco
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To: Olog-hai
Just saw on the local Boson news recently that Marty is being investigated by the Feds for stuff he did as a op union thug before succeeding Boston's *previous* semi-literate Mayor,Tom “Mumbles” Menino.
28 posted on 05/02/2016 4:40:23 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: Olog-hai

I guess this means the Manger goes back at Christmas Time.

They have absolutely no problem with allowing ‘free thought’ as B Frank thinks he is a she, E Warren thinks she is an Indian...etc...AND they keep reelecting them.

Of course for years the people of MA have marched to a different drummer, I learned this first hand from my Grandmother, Mother and ex wife and her family.

I don’t know if it is/was the water, but to hear them talk, one would think they came from the heart of Mississippi - and that isn’t just limited to those 3, I found that to be quite predominant — I am sure not all are that way but enough of whom I have been in contact with, act that way.,


29 posted on 05/02/2016 4:45:12 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)"Pols headstone- Please bury me not so deep so I can continue to fleece the sheep")
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To: Gay State Conservative

I was criticized once,by a hardcore lib,for criticisng Menino’s speech because he was raised as a “working class Bostonian”

I told her I was raised as a working class Bostonian and berated her for implying that working class folks did not have a good command of the English language.

That shut her up.

.


30 posted on 05/02/2016 4:45:42 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Olog-hai

I guess this means the Manger goes back at Christmas Time.

They have absolutely no problem with allowing ‘free thought’ as B Frank thinks he is a she, E Warren thinks she is an Indian...etc...AND they keep reelecting them.

Of course for years the people of MA have marched to a different drummer, I learned this first hand from my Grandmother, Mother and ex wife and her family.

I don’t know if it is/was the water, but to hear them talk, one would think they came from the heart of Mississippi - and that isn’t just limited to those 3, I found that to be quite predominant — I am sure not all are that way but enough of whom I have been in contact with, act that way.,


31 posted on 05/02/2016 4:45:52 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)"Pols headstone- Please bury me not so deep so I can continue to fleece the sheep")
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To: Olog-hai; All
I think that the low-information people running Boston local government are unthinkingly effectively violating the Constitution’s Clause 1 of Section 10 of Article I. By making this clause the states prohibited themselves from recognizing protected / privileged classes.
Article I, Section 10, Clause 1: No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility [emphases added].

32 posted on 05/02/2016 4:46:37 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: livius
Vomitatious.

I'm going to steal that word from you and not apologizing for it either.

Why in the world has one tiny smidgen of one point something percent (that’s the estimated gay population) of the national population taken over our national discourse?

Because fallen man foolishly believe that anything can be had without consequence, including sexual pleasure. Alongside abortion, homosexuality is the acme of this madness. Never mind that homosexual men live 20 years less on average than heterosexual men.

In the grander scheme of things this is less about "LGBT rights" than it is about defying God and trying to wrest from Him that which is not meant for us: existence of carnal pleasure without regard for eternal ramification.

33 posted on 05/02/2016 4:47:59 PM PDT by Samwell Tarly (America is becoming "Harrison Bergeron" had it been envisioned by Ayn Rand)
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To: Olog-hai

Who is not equal? Name one person who isn’t equal.


34 posted on 05/02/2016 4:48:42 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Olog-hai

When gay isn’t good enough. You have to go all in on tranny bathrooms to be a good liberal today.


35 posted on 05/02/2016 4:49:22 PM PDT by dennisw (The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong)
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To: xrmusn

“They have absolutely no problem with allowing ‘free thought’ as B Frank thinks he is a she, E Warren thinks she is an Indian...etc...AND they keep reelecting them-—


And don’t forget Gerry Studds.

He was a real piece of work.

.


36 posted on 05/02/2016 4:52:47 PM PDT by Mears
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To: originalbuckeye

Boston and it’s 20 mile Environs are an utter embarrassment to those of us with brains who actually grew up here.


37 posted on 05/02/2016 5:00:42 PM PDT by acapesket (all happy now?)
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To: Olog-hai

Correction...the Gender Dysphoria flag


38 posted on 05/02/2016 5:19:04 PM PDT by Josa
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To: Olog-hai
So, it is perfectly permissible, nay, encouraged to fly the "transgender flag" in Boston, MA, but beyond the pale to fly the Stars and Bars flag in Charleston, SC?

Right. I got it. It is easy to see where this country is headed and that hand-basket we are riding in is mighty broad and deep...

39 posted on 05/02/2016 5:23:08 PM PDT by Gritty (Assent to obvious lies is co-operating with evil. A society of liars is easy to control.-T.Dalrymple)
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To: Olog-hai
They have a flag?

A species of nationalism, then?

40 posted on 05/02/2016 5:25:14 PM PDT by Salman
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