OK, now Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is just pandering. He's always been one for that, but his latest act of overt pandering to the LGBTSWTFBBQ+++ community is almost certainly bound to misfire; it may well earn him the anger of everyone who has ever served under the flag of the United States, or under any of our various service flags - Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard. That latest act of pandering? Senator Schumer is pushing a bill that will place the Pride flag on equal footing with the Stars and Stripes and our service branch's flags.
If that's not the dumbest idea of the year, it will do until a better candidate comes along.
New York Sen. Chuck Schumer has filed a bill to give the pride flag the same legal standing as the U.S. flag and military banners.
The proposal, which faces long odds in the Republican-controlled Congress, comes in response to a simmering dispute over the Trump administration's decision to remove an LGBTQ pride flag from Stonewall National Monument in New York City.
Schumer said Stonewall is "sacred ground and Congress must act now to permanently protect the Pride flag and what it stands for" by granting federal protections that would allow it to be flown outside government buildings, and National Park sites.
"Trump’s hateful crusade must end," Schumer said in a statement. "The very core of American identity is liberty and justice for all – and that is what this legislation would protect: each national park’s ability to make their own decision about what flag can be flown."
"Long odds" doesn't begin to cover it; this bill won't go past the first Senate waste receptacle it encounters, and that's appropriate. But look at what the Senate Minority Leader is trying to do here; he is, in effect, placing a never-changing flag of activists on par with the national flag. That's intolerable.
The whole thing erupted over the imbroglio over the removal of a pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument. That's appropriate; national monuments should only fly the American flag. Military monuments and installations should only fly the American flag and the flag of the service(s) being recognized. And that's all.
That's not how Democrats see it.
Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal, who joined other Democrats in re-raising the flag last week, is among those who support Schumer's proposal. He said the legislation "protects our legacy, our dignity, and the generations who will look to Stonewall as proof that progress, once won, must be defended."
"Authorizing the Pride flag in federal law is about more than symbolism, it’s about permanence," he said in a statement. "It sends a clear message that LGBTQ+ history is not subject to political whims and that our visibility cannot be stripped away. Civil rights landmarks should not be vulnerable to shifting administrations."
Horse squeeze. The message being sent here is simple: This is a national monument of the United States of America, and only the flag of the United States of America should be flown there. No others. No banners of activist groups. No pride flags. No Hamas flags. No Antifa flags. The restriction applies overall: Only the flag of the United States flies over national monuments. No activist banners. None. Not for any reason.
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