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Key part of article:

The White House said that while it had not been able to block the flag proposal, it was "successful in defeating 50+ other policy riders attacking the LGBTQI+ community that Congressional Republicans attempted to insert into the legislation."

They are going out of their way to attack queer people any way they can and if they really get the power they need to achieve it, there will be a genocide. Or at least a genocide far more noticeable than the current one going on, mostly directed at trans people.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The title should be that the government defeated 50+ proposals against lgbt.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

The point is that they (GOP) throw so much shit at the wall that they know won’t succeed because eventually some things will stick. It’s not worth pointing out all the shit that fails. What gets in is worth talking about.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Exactly, although exact titles are required here, so that should have been the title of the article.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Forbes says:

None of the funds made available by the bill can be spent to fly or display flags other than the American flag and other eligible flags at U.S. State Department facilities, a rule that will last for the length of the funding bill, which expires on Sept. 30.

Does that mean an employee could buy a pride flag with their own money and raise it before clocking in? Or at least hang it elsewhere on the building? That provision sucks, but I at least hope it'll lead to people finding silly workarounds.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Clickbait. The actual resolution prohibits the use of the funds being allocated from the new budget to be used on anything other than government related flags. This is just funding for flags, there's no outright ban on pride flags.

Resolution Sauce (pg. 1000)

(b) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be obligated or expended to fly or display a flag over a facility of the United States Department of State-

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I would think that the "or display" part prohibits a public employee from raising the flag.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Everything before that states the funds allocated by the act can't be used to fly or display a flag other than a government flag.

A public employee couldn't spend embassy or facility money on a non-government flag, but I haven't read anything about them spending their own money and still flying the flag.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Right, but the public employee is being paid for by the funds that are covered by the act. Therefore if an employee raises the flag, funds are being used to display a non-state flag.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This is fair.

Government property shouldn't be for individual ideologies or agendas.

If you have a problem with this, then you should also be cool with "don't tread on me" flags being flown in government buildings. Otherwise, you're just a hypocrite.