It’s Pride Month, and around the world, US Embassies have been displaying Pride flags to mark the occasion.
One person who’s unhappy with this is Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who went on Newsmax last night to remind everyone that she finds it inappropriate.
Posting a link to her appearance on Twitter, she tweeted, “The only flag that should fly over U.S embassies is the American flag. That’s why I’m a proud cosponsor of @RepJeffDuncan’s Old Glory Only Act!”
The only flag that should fly over U.S embassies is the American flag.
That’s why I’m a proud cosponsor of @RepJeffDuncan’s Old Glory Only Act! pic.twitter.com/wHnmwCNbRX
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) June 4, 2021
In her interview with Greg Kelly, Greene said, “The American flag is the only flag that represents every single American. We don’t need political identity politics. We don’t need the Democrat party making one group more important than the other. The only flag that should fly over any of our US embassies, over any of our federal buildings, is Old Glory, the beautiful Stars and Stripes.”
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Last year, the US Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, hung a Black Lives Matter sign on its exterior, alongside an LGBTQ Pride flag. Greene went on to blast the Black Lives Matter movement as a “Domestic terrorist organization.”
“The LGBTQ flag, that’s not a flag that needs to be flown over our government buildings either,” Greene continued. “The American flag represents all Americans and that is the only flag that should ever be flown. Period. There’s no argument about it.”
In February, Queerty reported that Greene was co-sponsoring a bill that would ban the flying of any flag other than the Stars and Stripes outside US Embassies and other consular posts.
Related: Marjorie Taylor Greene co-sponsors bill to stop US embassies flying Pride flags
The bill, House Resolution 85, is sponsored by South Carolina Republican Rep. Jeff Duncan. He has introduced the legislation, dubbed the Old Glory Only Act, several times previously but it has repeatedly failed to progress.
Earlier this week, Duncan again re-asserted his opposition to embassies flying the rainbow flag and revealed three more GOP lawmakers had signed on as co-sponsors. Joining the likes of Greene and Matt Gaetz (R-FL) are Reps. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Rick Crawford (R-AR), and Brian Mast (R-FL.).
Despite this, political commentators believe the legislation is unlikely to be debated, let alone pass in the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives.
US Embassies began flying the LGBTQ rainbow flag during the Obama administration. The Trump administration banned embassies from flying the flag on official flag poles but did not object to the flag being hung on other parts of the building.
The Biden administration rescinded the Trump ban, allowing the flag to be flown between International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia on May 17 and the end of Pride Month at the end of June.
Advocates in countries where it is particularly challenging to be openly LGBTQ have previously spoken of how they find it encouraging to see embassies flying rainbow flags, particularly in places such as Russia where laws exist prohibiting so-called “gay propaganda”.
Among those to display the flag this week was the US Embassy in the Vatican, which prompted a response from Rep, Duncan, author of the Old Glory Act.
“Disrespectful, inappropriate, and exactly why I filed the Old Glory Only Act. The only flag that should be flying at our embassies is the flag of the United States of America.”
Disrespectful, inappropriate, and exactly why I filed the Old Glory Only Act. The only flag that should be flying at our embassies is the flag of the United States of America. https://t.co/6pibXS3tAI
— Rep. Jeff Duncan (@RepJeffDuncan) June 1, 2021
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Chrisk
Ah such a shock. A Republican in a southern state has repeatably introduced a bill to exclude the pride flag. I’ll bet these shitheads would have no such issue with a Confederate flag though.
JayJayBinks
Her opinion is as irrelevant as she is. We love it.
Fahd
Flying the pride flag at embassies helps the US regain a little bit of its credibility as a champion of human rights – something the Orange clown and his acolytes actively work(ed) at dismantling.
Wherever “gay propaganda” is against the law, the U.S. Embassy proudly displays the Pride flag. A breath of fresh air to all those who face oppression and who can’t just move to a more open Western-style society. Bravo, That’s America, MF.
FroyoFiasco
Trump was the first president to enter office with a pro-gay marriage stance. A flag representing a sexual orientation being displayed at government buildings is just bizarre. There’s nothing inherently positive or pride-worthy about being something other than heterosexual any more than there is for being heterosexual.
These flags do nothing for oppressed people in other countries. It’s just saccharine, performative BS.
Fahd
@Froyofiasco
Your retort is disinformation from start to finish. I guess because of the site’s name this is an easy blog for Russian troll factories to find.
The arc of justice may be long, but millions of people cannot be oppressed forever.
I hope you feel better.
Den
@FroyoFiasco
You seem either blissfully unaware (or perhaps either disingenuous or stupid) that Trump promised his evangelical and fundamentalist cultists to advance their agenda more than any other president. And in so doing has appointed anti-LGBT judges to every level of the federal courts. Ge has also very definitely rolled back Trans legal protections, as well as championed the ability of religious organizations and private businesses to flout local and state anti-discrimination laws in the name of “religious freedom”, an absolute misunderstanding of the term and intent of the bill of rights.
The best that can be said of Trump regarding same sex marriage is that he tolerated it because it was politically expedient to do so.
Fahd
@Den
Legitimizing Froyo…’s troll post by arguing with it seems like a follow-up troll move.
We are all years past arguing Trump good or bad.
Take it back to Novosibirsk.
Den
@ fahd.
I didn’t realize you were an idiot. But obviously I was wrong. I responded to his post EXACTLY as you did. I simply added some factual information in the hopes it might be read by those who share his viewpoint, or even by him. Why does that trigger you and cause you to lie (without knowing anything about me) about who I am? Call me verbose, or pedantic and I will take that. But a troll or Russian?
I do not understand it when people I thought were thoughtful and progressive turn out to be total a$$holes.
But there you are!
Den
@fahd
And where do you live that you seem so unaware Trump is still exercising an inordinate influence over the Republican party? There are still LGBT people who support him. There are still people in power who pledge fealty to him. There is still probably 20-25% of the electorate that could be moved to violence in his support. To assume “We are all years past arguing Trump” is AT BEST naïve.
Speak for yourself.
Cam
Republicans hate the very idea of our existence.
Mr. Stadnick
I bet she’d love to see a Confederate flag hanging over all American buildings. Racist bitch
ingyaom
Do pride flags in Italy (or the Vatican) have an extra stripe? I’m wondering why the one in the picture has seven stripes. I think the original pride flag had seven and the extra stripe was pink (which was later removed) but the extra stripe in thIs flag is light blue.
BigE
The original flag had EIGHT stripes with turquoise and pink in addition to the six colors on most flags today. Incidentally, the colors do not stand for race, gender, or sexuality, but elements that everyone needs for a happy, healthy life.
Sqwoah
I like what the pride flag stands for, but the flag itself is so ugly and juvenile I’d rather not see it.
AxelDC
Whatever.
Roy Moss
Ugly and juvenile? Try looking in the mirror, bitch.
ScottOnEarth
Yes, because a flag with the beautiful colors of the rainbow that represents so many positive, powerful things about the LGBTQ+ community is childish and ugly. I’m not sure if you’r ugly, but your comment indicates that you are, in fact, childish.
AxelDC
If I’ve pissed off a Fascist, it’s a good day.
ggontarek
I “hate” to see her face. So how about not showing it?
Tombear
Sasquatch, I’m an anti gay troll hunter. Be off before I drop a house on you too!
bowlingbutch
What a hate filled person and what a sad life being that way
Prax07
Aah Roy… you’re suck a mature c-u-n-t. GFY, preferably with a rusty razorblade encrusted baseball bat.
ShiningSex
someone needs to slap her wig off
BoomerMyles
How can someone so stupid harbor so much hate?
Gordon of the Bassets
If you want disrespect to the Vatican there was none greater than Trump appointing Newt Gingrich’s whore and third wife as US ambassador to the Holy See.
Kevan1
Yes, and I hate have to look at, listen to and hear about her inbred a_s. The pride flag isn’t going anywhere, but eventually she will die. The sooner the better.
SPEEDOSWIMMER
marjorie taylor greene = inbred horse-faced adulterer.
GayEGO
No Marjorie Taylor Greene, you are the inappropriate Trumpster who is mixed up about flags! You should not be in Congress as you are a dement!
Den
You will notice that none of these twits object to the flying of the POW/MIA flag which flies on flagpoles of embassies and federal buildings everywhere.
And none of these twits seems aware that there are all sorts of regulations regarding how and when to fly other flags on a flagpole with the US flag.
These right wingers (and that includes the ones who post here) have little intellect, curiosity or understanding. Neither are they capable of extending empathy to anyone who does not look, act or believe exactly as they do. They’re primitive to the core.