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What the fuck is wrong with people? Everyone gets offended at the drop of a hat these days. Why do they have to make it everyone’s problem?
Can I sue this guy for the disgust I feel inside me when I read about him suing for seeing a flag he doesn't like? Does this mean I can also sue every church forcing me to see a cross and forcing me to hear these fucking annoying bells every fucking hour?
Funny story, I filed a complaint about the church bells near me. I found out it's not the church ringing them, which would fall under the constitutional law freedom of religion of my country, but it is done by a foundation consisting of volunteers which does not fall under the freedom of religion law as it's not a religious organization so it is considered noise pollution.
I didn't get a reply, which is also against the law.
Sad, nobody loves this guy enough to get him help
I also think the Progress Pride Flag represents conduct and actions I view as sin. Not like, gender/sexual sin. Design sin.
The rainbow flag was already perfect. The rainbow flag to me says "human behavior exists on a spectrum, and everyone matters". It's beautiful, elegant. The stripes don't represent distinct groups, though sinners (the flag redesigners, not LGBTQ+ people) have tried. The flag itself represents harmony in diversity. You can't get better than that, no notes.
The Progress flag is meddling with a perfect formula. It takes a perfect symbol to celebrate diversity itself and plasters it with footnotes. By highlighting specific groups that were included by the rainbow in the first place, it just opens the door to more and more complex revisions to include more and more distinct groups. It turns a poignant symbol of broad inclusiveness into a weird patchwork of granular inclusiveness. That would seem like hyperbole if the pictured flag wasn't already the intersex-inclusive revision.
It's just sloppy vexillology. The rainbow flag is awesome. Why are we fucking with it?
That's basically my problem with the term "LGBT(Q(IA(+)))" but as a basically straight white dude my input has very little weight. I think SAGA is cleaner (Sexuality And Gender Acceptance/Alliance), covers all the bases while being a pronounceable word with a poetic meaning. "Queer" works too but has too much baggage in some regions.
Hear hear. I refuse to use it for this exact reason. The rainbow flag is such a strong symbol!
he must getting mixed feeling in his pants to be this upset.
It's very simple. We'll get rid of the pride flags as soon as they get rid of all the crosses. Fair is fair, after all.
The fucking crosses, man.
You think Jesus ever would want to see another cross again?
Dude wouldn't be able to take Public Transit in Boston.
If Jesus came back he probably wouldn't even use the letter "t".
Jesus talkking to Peter after the rapture: "Yeah, got all of them, except those antichristians who celebrate my death with crosses. No way I'm bring those sick weirdos up here."
Imagine resurrecting into a world full of people wearing crosses with you nailed to them all just acting like it's not fucked
thats why theres the angels to clear everything out when the time comes.
Then you go to church and see them eat your flesh and blood.
Cannibal death cults man, they be fucked.
The funny part is that they aren’t even historically accurate crosses. The cross was more like a capital T. The upright post was buried in the ground like a fence pole, with a square peg carved at the top. The actual cross part was just the crossbar, with a matching square hole carved in it. The crossbar was lifted up and set on top of that peg.
The square peg likely only stuck out an inch or two from the top of the T, and that was mostly just to make it more durable, as the peg wore down with use but burying the posts was a labor intensive process. They didn’t want to bury a new post for every single crucifixion, so they made the posts reusable and just swapped out the crossbars.
When Jesus carried his cross to Calvary, he was only carrying the top of the T. But over time, to distinguish it from the capital T, Christians started using the modern cross with the accentuated peg, and it eventually morphed into the modern cross that we all recognize today.
That brings a whole new dimension to the T, but you know what, after being subjected to the green line more than a few times it entirely makes sense.
So they can take down the flag but that means no Easter decorations or Christmas decorations and definitely canceling the Christmas holiday because I don't want to be forced to celebrate your beliefs you weak twat.
That's a bad deal because that part has nothing to do with Christian Easter and Christmas.
Somebody should sue him for suing for seeing a flag. If that's the way we gon play it.
I assume this is an effort to create another suit that will get all the way to SCOTUS so that white Christian nationalists get yet another carve-out of everyone else's civil liberties.
Someone should punch him in the throat
You know, if youre gonna be this pathetic we should be able to exile you to an island.
Hey... Australia...
Australia is filled with venomous snakes, huge spiders crocodiles and more. It not fair to hurt those innocent creatures.
If this works, is it not precedent to make the same complaint every time I see a cross?
Or see “god” anywhere.
Since they claim he's everywhere, we can demand he stops spying on us in the bathroom.
Maybe. Sometimes different rules apply to government (public) property vs private.
lmao cry about it idiot
pride is unstoppable 💜💛🤍🩷🩵🤎🖤❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Why do so many right-wing Christians sound like the villain from a Criminal Minds episode?
Like...this MFer thinks he has a right to make other people not exist for his comfort. Fucking psycho when you dig into it.
His faith must be weak for it to be shaken so easily.
If looking at a pride flag turns you gay, I'm going to decorate my entire house with billionaire flags.
Snowflake much?
Meanwhile my church:
(ALT: The words "The Episcopal Church" in white above a variation of a shield graphic that has a blue field in the upper left with a series of white crosses forming an X shape; pink, blue, brown, black diagonal stripes on the right; the classic Pride rainbow colors of purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red forming the remaining sections with a white cross holding them all together)
EDIT: I tried to use a spoiler tag/format but I apparently suck at that. Sorry. Don't sue me!
If I exercise my free speech in the woods with no one around to hear it, is it free speech?
Love thy neighbor
He's not wrong, which is why we should not acknowledge or grant any privileges to any religion. Practice what you want but you should get no special privilege or consideration.
And not a single person has complained about being “forced” to see all the churches he also goes past.
So yes, but also this is slightly different than that. It's about the department itself flying the flag. Still absolutely insane, but slightly less insane than that. The end result, if this person wins, is literally no flags or any other messaging. "My religion doesn't support nationalism." This would also include extreme stances like "my religion doesn't support the periodic table" or things like that.