re: ST. Petersburg, FL Raises Gay Pride Flag at City Hall

I think it'd be cool if they changed themes with each new week. Maybe next a pirate flag.

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Little bit hypocritical for them to throw a fit about a non-US flag at government buildings then put up a gay pride flag the same week.

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Ya think? The majority has become the minority.

Don't care. America has much bigger problems to worry about in terms of education deficits, childhood diabetes and illiteracy rates in public schools.

Now that this has passed, Hopefully our politicians can now focus their time and efforts towards something that really matters .

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that it's absolutely moronic and utterly stupid. This is city hall, a place of business. It should fly the US flag, and maybe a state flag. It's not a place to show off the latest hip trend on social media. Just another in the long line of liberal shitheads who fall over themselves to prove who can be the most PC. "oh, gays can marry now? Hmm..well, we'll show everyone how tolerant WE are. We're the most tolerant of all, and we'll PROVE IT!"

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Agreed...but

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sucks to be on the losing side.

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sucks to be a slave to sides

i mean if we are on a anti-flag crusade.....


what about the American flag and the Texas state flag? Huh? The poor messicans were oppressed and murdered by the white man, those should go next. IMO.

ohh wait. they don't give a frick and are actually glad to be apart of the greatest country in the world.

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sucks to be on the losing side.

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We're all on the losing side, some just aren't smart enough to realize it.

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that it's absolutely moronic and utterly stupid. This is city hall, a place of business. It should fly the US flag, and maybe a state flag. It's not a place to show off the latest hip trend on social media. Just another in the long line of liberal shitheads who fall over themselves to prove who can be the most PC. "oh, gays can marry now? Hmm..well, we'll show everyone how tolerant WE are. We're the most tolerant of all, and we'll PROVE

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Thoughts?

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A blog from a priest friend of mine a bit ago. Feel it's relevant here

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That the situation has changed so radically in the last ten or fifteen years was driven home to me just recently when I passed by the Senedd (the Welsh National Assembly) in Cardiff Bay. There, flying at full mast outside the legislative centre of this ancient country, was the banner of the European Union, the jack of the United Kingdom, the dragon of Wales, and the rainbow of gay pride. And while I know that the latter was raised, ostensibly, in recognition of LGBT history month, that it remained up two months after the fact conveys the impression that the importance of its message far exceeds what anyone is admitting to.

But what, exactly, is its message?

In my adult lifetime, the authentic, good, and just aspirations of gay people to be treated with the dignity they deserve as children of God have been hijacked by some who would have us question what it is to be human itself. Whoever ‘they’ are, they have managed to change in a decade or two a question that philosophers and theologians have wrestled with for millennia. Suddenly, identity has been attached to an incidental: I am no longer a man; I am a heterosexual man (whatever that means). So-and-so is no longer an actor; he is a gay actor. So-and-so is no longer a doctor; she is a lesbian doctor. People have become what they do.

In this confusion of activity with identity, ontology has suffered to such an extent that its substance is now seen as dispensable. That is, our maleness and our femaleness – clearly so much the basis of our very nature – has itself become superfluous. A human being objectively born a man can now, by technological means, subjectively identify as a woman, and expect to be acclaimed as such without challenge or question. Indeed, to desist from calling Bruce Jenner ‘Caitlyn’ is to be ostracised and potentially rejected from polite society. This, in spite of the fact that the best Bruce can ever hope to be is a technologically-determined caricature of woman, as if all womanhood is comprised of is make-up, heels, and a high voice. Feminists should be outraged that the nature for which they have rightly demanded respect can so easily be appropriated by men. At the same time, homosexual men and women should be incensed that their legitimate desire to be recognised as human beings no different to anyone else is now lumped together with the demands of those who would embody the notion that sex is an illusion, and that all it takes to effect change is chemical alteration, surgery, and slight behavioural modification. In light of the proliferation of ideas around gender identity and fluidity, it seems that every liberation movement of the last century has been brought to one, great, incoherent reckoning.

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That was beautifully written.