American Cities Are Making The Pride Flag Their Official Flag

You probably missed it, but a couple of years ago, history was made in the state of New Hampshire. We’re not talking about the invention of a miracle drug or a breakthrough in rocket technology or anything like that. We’re talking about something much, much more significant: A woman named Talesha Saint-Marc became the first black woman in New Hampshire to serve as a federal magistrate judge.

As one lawyer said during her swearing-in: “I don’t think anyone in this room is surprised that you are making history.” The New Hampshire bar association wrote a lengthy article about how Talesha was “breaking barriers.” 

And as you can see, the new judge was all smiles in court:

By all accounts, thanks to Talesha, great things were coming for the state of New Hampshire. But a couple questions remained unanswered: What exactly would Talesha accomplish once she got on the bench? In what ways would Talesha shock the world with her legal acumen?

Well, we don’t have to guess about the answers to these questions anymore. That’s because recently, Judge Talesha issued the first major ruling of her career. And it’s a ruling that’s worth covering, because it underscores a much larger effort that’s underway to undermine the identity of this country at a very fundamental level.

Specifically, Judge Talesha, in her infinite wisdom, determined that it was completely legal for Nashua City Hall to ban the “Appeal to Heaven” Pine Tree flag, while at the same time flying the so-called Pride flag outside of city hall.

Nevermind the fact that the Pine Tree flag was flown at the Battle of Bunker Hill, which is a battle that many New Hampshire residents participated in. 

Nevermind the fact that it was used by ships commissioned by George Washington.

None of that matters because, according to the city, the Pine Tree flag, “was not in harmony with City policies or was contrary to the City’s best interest.”

On the other hand, the Pride flag — which is just a horizontal rainbow that some gay guy drew in San Francisco in the 70’s — is, apparently, completely compatible with the policies of the City of Nashua. Therefore, the judge ruled that the city can fly the gay-pride flag, while prohibiting people from flying the Revolutionary War flag.

To be clear, the city hall at Nashua has a “citizen’s flag pole,” which normally flies flags that citizens want to be flown. And over the years, those flags have commemorated everything from Greek Independence Day to “International Francophone Day.”

In fact, here’s a picture of the Greek National flag flying outside Nashua’s City hall:

So it’s usually a pretty open forum for people to fly the flags they want. But it’s not an open forum anymore. In order to protect their ability to fly the Pride flag, which is profoundly sacred to them, the city government has effectively shut down the ability of citizens to fly flags commemorating what they want to commemorate, including major battles of the American Revolution like Bunker Hill. And path-breaking judges like Talesha Saint-Marc are signing off on it.

This is an extraordinary development, especially since it’s taking place not far from the birthplace of the American Revolution. But it’s not just happening in very liberal states like New Hampshire. We’re seeing similar efforts to canonize the Pride flag in liberal cities that are located within conservative states, particularly in Utah and Idaho. This is the big “act of resistance” that several liberal enclaves have decided on.

WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show

We’ll start with Boise, which is the capital of Idaho. Recently, the state passed a law requiring that only official government flags could fly at government buildings. And in response, Boise just passed a resolution declaring that the Pride flag is, indeed, an official flag of the city. Yes, they have named the Pride flag as an official flag of the capital city of Idaho.

Before we break this down, and all the perverse implications, I have to admit that a random female protester at the Boise City Council said pretty much everything that needs to be said about this decision. I don’t know if she’s interested in political commentary as a career, but if she’s not, she should be, because her take really sums up the situation. Watch:

In case you couldn’t make it out, she calls all the Pride flag supporters “frickin’ commies.” And then she explains that every single demographic doesn’t need to have its own flag, and that all of these people are incredibly narcissistic. And she does it all in about ten seconds. It’s really poetry.

It’s also a much better argument than anything the pro-Pride flag people could come up with. Here for example is the statement from someone named Colin Nash, who is apparently the president of the Boise City Council. Here was his argument in support of making the Pride Flag an official, government flag in Boise. I’m not going to spoil anything, but this has to be one of the biggest rug-pulls in the history of political speeches, in any context. This guy really leads you into believing one thing, and then right when you think you know where it’s going, he completely subverts your expectations. None of it really makes sense but it’s incredible to behold, all the same. Again, this is his argument in favor of canonizing the Pride flag at city hall. Watch:

You can watch that clip fifteen times, and even when you know what’s coming, it’s still a surprise. There’s all that build-up. He’s giving you the stock story about how he was contemplating hurting himself back when he was young, because he was in the closet. That’s where you think it’s leading, based on the context. And then he drops the hammer, and informs you that he’s not gay. But he never actually says what his “secret” was. You can listen to his whole speech, and he never says. So no one has any idea what he’s talking about, or how it’s relevant to anything. All we know is that the Boise City Council president has some kind of secret. It’s a secret so bad that he thought about causing a fatal car accident. But we still don’t know what the secret is. Or how the hell any of this is related to the pride flag.

As best I can tell, the idea is that some people are suicidal because they have secrets of some kind. And therefore, the government of Boise needs to endorse the Pride flag to make people with secrets feel better. Even if your secret has nothing to do with being a closeted homosexual, the pride flag will still cheer you up.

I’m not cherry-picking an argument here. I didn’t find some random activist ranting about this particular issue. This is the president of the Boise city council, delivering remarks that he prepared in advance, in support of a proposal to officially endorse the pride flag. That’s the best he could come up with. The rest of the city council — which, by the way, voted to endorse the Pride flag by a margin of 5 to 1 — was pretty much the same way. Some of them mentioned that gay people don’t have enough rights, even though they didn’t explain what they were talking about. Even the lone dissenting voice was embarrassing. The woman who voted against the Pride flag just said that, essentially, she was worried that the city would get sued if it endorsed the Pride flag. She had no backbone whatsoever.

The bottom line is that no one on the Boise city council delivered a rational explanation for why the city should fly this flag, because there is no rational explanation for it. But in Boise, a lot of people support it. A local news station interviewed a few random people on the street. Here’s what they had to say:

You can see the reporter — who presumably, like the president of the city council, is definitely not gay — nodding along at the end of that footage. This is the kind of dispassionate coverage you get on issues like this. But of course, nothing these people are saying makes any sense. “Live your life; let them live their life.” That’s what he says. But that has nothing to do with shoving a partisan, radical ideology down the throats of everyone who doesn’t agree with it — which, in particular, includes all real Christians in Boise. The LGBTQIA+/Pride cult is effectively a secular religion, or at least a sect of a secular religion. Giving these people — and only these people — the endorsement of the government is the exact opposite of “live and let live.” It is an attack on both Christianity and the national identity of this country. “Live your life and let them live their life” is precisely what you aren’t doing when you make a homosexual flag into an official flag of the city.

And again, the reason this is worth covering is that it’s happening all over the place. It’s not just New Hampshire and Idaho. It’s also happening in Utah, of all places. Take a look at this image:

There you see the mayor of Salt Lake, Erin Mendenhall. She’s unveiling a set of new flags that are officially sanctioned by the city, including an “LGBTQ+ Pride flag, the Juneteenth flag, and the transgender pride flag.” Just like in Boise, Salt Lake’s government is introducing these flags in response to a state law that prohibits government buildings from flying flags that don’t represent a city, municipality, county, et cetera. So their solution is to declare that the Juneteenth flag and the “Transgender Pride” flags do, in fact, represent the city of Salt Lake. Because nothing says Mormon values like BLM holidays and child castration, apparently.

These cities are doing the opposite of what they should be doing. I don’t just mean that they shouldn’t be recognizing the LGBT flag. Obviously they shouldn’t do that. I mean that the government shouldn’t recognize the “LGBT community” at all. LGBT people are not a nation, so it makes no sense for them to have a flag. They also aren’t a community. The fact that a bunch of people share the same sexual proclivity does not make them a real community, or a coherent group that the government should give any special recognition to at all.

It seems that the current administration realizes that. From the Post Millennial:

The Trump administration has slashed more than $800 million in federal research funding from the National Institutes of Health for studies related to LGBTQ health. … One example of cut funding included research being done at Harvard University’s Medical School regarding the mental health of LGBTQ youth. .. The funding was terminated by the NIH on March 12. The NIH informed [Harvard] that ‘Research programs based on gender identity are often unscientific, have little identifiable return on investment, and do nothing to enhance the health of many Americans. Many such studies ignore, rather than seriously examine, biological realities. It is the policy of NIH not to prioritize these research programs.’

One of the reasons this matters is that, at Harvard and many other universities, they blame Republican legislation for the “mental health” of “LGBTQ youth.” That’s the goal of these studies. They try to make the argument that, if you ban child castration, you’re going to cause mass suicides. The premise here is obviously ludicrous, because we didn’t have mass suicides back when transgenderism was a punchline, just a few decades ago. There were no mass suicides in response to “Mrs. Doubtfire,” as far as I know. But this is fake research. It’s explicitly political and fraudulent. And now it’s being shut down.

The Hill adds this: 

The HHS began laying off thousands of workers earlier this month, including personnel at the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis Prevention and the Global Health Center Division of Global HIV and TB. Within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s division of HIV prevention, five branches were eliminated completely, including the research, surveillance and prevention communication branches.

None of this is happening without a lot of complaining, as you might expect. NBC News interviewed the CEO of a gay nonprofit in Los Angeles, who issued this dire warning:

We have seen a radical decline in new HIV cases as a result of our HIV prevention efforts here in Los Angeles and what I’m incredibly worried about is if the county stops funding HIV prevention work, that new cases will skyrocket.

They also interviewed a scientist at Harvard who said: 

‘Most of my colleagues are afraid to speak out. … This is what authoritarianism looks like. Fear keeps people silent.’

So the message is that, by eliminating a bunch of fake research into homosexuality and gender, a lot of people are going to die. And specifically, the gay nonprofit guy in Los Angeles says that people are going to die of HIV, because apparently we need to study HIV some more. And if you disagree, you’re basically Hitler. What’s being overlooked here, of course, is how exactly HIV is spread. If you think about that for about two seconds, you’ll realize that in reality, the “impact” LGBT “health” issues are either made up or self-imposed. They’re very often the product of reckless and dangerous sexual behavior. The AIDS crisis is the most obvious example. Monkeypox is another one. It’s very easy to not get these diseases. We don’t need to study it anymore. Every rational adult knows how to avoid it. If you’re having random gay sex with strangers, you might get HIV and monkeypox. If you aren’t, you almost certainly won’t get either of those diseases. No need to spend another $100 million studying the issue.

In cities where the pride flag is the equivalent of the American flag, you’re not allowed to say any of this out loud. They’ll give you a lot of nasty looks in Boise and Salt Lake City if you besmirch the state religion. But the more these activists try to force this nonsense down our throats, the more it’s important to say what’s actually happening. So let’s do that. A country that recognizes multiple flags, carved out among various narcissistic interest groups, cannot survive for very long. Everyone knows that. As the random lady said at the Boise city council, only a dumb commie would disagree. And the more these cities pass absurd laws like this, and the more Harvard researchers pretend they need a few more billion dollars to study HIV, the more everyone can tell that the random lady in Boise is a lot smarter — and a whole lot more honest — than any of the activists and government officials who shouted her down. The LGBT club is clearly scrambling in desperation at the moment. All the Trump administration has to do now is continue what they’re doing, and take every step necessary to shut them down for good.

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You probably missed it, but a couple of years ago, history was made in the state of New Hampshire. We’re not talking about the invention of a miracle drug or a breakthrough in rocket technology or anything like that. We’re talking about something much, much more significant: A woman named Talesha Saint-Marc became the first black woman in New Hampshire to serve as a federal magistrate judge.

As one lawyer said during her swearing-in: “I don’t think anyone in this room is surprised that you are making history.” The New Hampshire bar association wrote a lengthy article about how Talesha was “breaking barriers.” 

And as you can see, the new judge was all smiles in court:

By all accounts, thanks to Talesha, great things were coming for the state of New Hampshire. But a couple questions remained unanswered: What exactly would Talesha accomplish once she got on the bench? In what ways would Talesha shock the world with her legal acumen?

Well, we don’t have to guess about the answers to these questions anymore. That’s because recently, Judge Talesha issued the first major ruling of her career. And it’s a ruling that’s worth covering, because it underscores a much larger effort that’s underway to undermine the identity of this country at a very fundamental level.

Specifically, Judge Talesha, in her infinite wisdom, determined that it was completely legal for Nashua City Hall to ban the “Appeal to Heaven” Pine Tree flag, while at the same time flying the so-called Pride flag outside of city hall.

Nevermind the fact that the Pine Tree flag was flown at the Battle of Bunker Hill, which is a battle that many New Hampshire residents participated in. 

Nevermind the fact that it was used by ships commissioned by George Washington.

None of that matters because, according to the city, the Pine Tree flag, “was not in harmony with City policies or was contrary to the City’s best interest.”

On the other hand, the Pride flag — which is just a horizontal rainbow that some gay guy drew in San Francisco in the 70’s — is, apparently, completely compatible with the policies of the City of Nashua. Therefore, the judge ruled that the city can fly the gay-pride flag, while prohibiting people from flying the Revolutionary War flag.

To be clear, the city hall at Nashua has a “citizen’s flag pole,” which normally flies flags that citizens want to be flown. And over the years, those flags have commemorated everything from Greek Independence Day to “International Francophone Day.”

In fact, here’s a picture of the Greek National flag flying outside Nashua’s City hall:

So it’s usually a pretty open forum for people to fly the flags they want. But it’s not an open forum anymore. In order to protect their ability to fly the Pride flag, which is profoundly sacred to them, the city government has effectively shut down the ability of citizens to fly flags commemorating what they want to commemorate, including major battles of the American Revolution like Bunker Hill. And path-breaking judges like Talesha Saint-Marc are signing off on it.

This is an extraordinary development, especially since it’s taking place not far from the birthplace of the American Revolution. But it’s not just happening in very liberal states like New Hampshire. We’re seeing similar efforts to canonize the Pride flag in liberal cities that are located within conservative states, particularly in Utah and Idaho. This is the big “act of resistance” that several liberal enclaves have decided on.

WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show

We’ll start with Boise, which is the capital of Idaho. Recently, the state passed a law requiring that only official government flags could fly at government buildings. And in response, Boise just passed a resolution declaring that the Pride flag is, indeed, an official flag of the city. Yes, they have named the Pride flag as an official flag of the capital city of Idaho.

Before we break this down, and all the perverse implications, I have to admit that a random female protester at the Boise City Council said pretty much everything that needs to be said about this decision. I don’t know if she’s interested in political commentary as a career, but if she’s not, she should be, because her take really sums up the situation. Watch:

In case you couldn’t make it out, she calls all the Pride flag supporters “frickin’ commies.” And then she explains that every single demographic doesn’t need to have its own flag, and that all of these people are incredibly narcissistic. And she does it all in about ten seconds. It’s really poetry.

It’s also a much better argument than anything the pro-Pride flag people could come up with. Here for example is the statement from someone named Colin Nash, who is apparently the president of the Boise City Council. Here was his argument in support of making the Pride Flag an official, government flag in Boise. I’m not going to spoil anything, but this has to be one of the biggest rug-pulls in the history of political speeches, in any context. This guy really leads you into believing one thing, and then right when you think you know where it’s going, he completely subverts your expectations. None of it really makes sense but it’s incredible to behold, all the same. Again, this is his argument in favor of canonizing the Pride flag at city hall. Watch:

You can watch that clip fifteen times, and even when you know what’s coming, it’s still a surprise. There’s all that build-up. He’s giving you the stock story about how he was contemplating hurting himself back when he was young, because he was in the closet. That’s where you think it’s leading, based on the context. And then he drops the hammer, and informs you that he’s not gay. But he never actually says what his “secret” was. You can listen to his whole speech, and he never says. So no one has any idea what he’s talking about, or how it’s relevant to anything. All we know is that the Boise City Council president has some kind of secret. It’s a secret so bad that he thought about causing a fatal car accident. But we still don’t know what the secret is. Or how the hell any of this is related to the pride flag.

As best I can tell, the idea is that some people are suicidal because they have secrets of some kind. And therefore, the government of Boise needs to endorse the Pride flag to make people with secrets feel better. Even if your secret has nothing to do with being a closeted homosexual, the pride flag will still cheer you up.

I’m not cherry-picking an argument here. I didn’t find some random activist ranting about this particular issue. This is the president of the Boise city council, delivering remarks that he prepared in advance, in support of a proposal to officially endorse the pride flag. That’s the best he could come up with. The rest of the city council — which, by the way, voted to endorse the Pride flag by a margin of 5 to 1 — was pretty much the same way. Some of them mentioned that gay people don’t have enough rights, even though they didn’t explain what they were talking about. Even the lone dissenting voice was embarrassing. The woman who voted against the Pride flag just said that, essentially, she was worried that the city would get sued if it endorsed the Pride flag. She had no backbone whatsoever.

The bottom line is that no one on the Boise city council delivered a rational explanation for why the city should fly this flag, because there is no rational explanation for it. But in Boise, a lot of people support it. A local news station interviewed a few random people on the street. Here’s what they had to say:

You can see the reporter — who presumably, like the president of the city council, is definitely not gay — nodding along at the end of that footage. This is the kind of dispassionate coverage you get on issues like this. But of course, nothing these people are saying makes any sense. “Live your life; let them live their life.” That’s what he says. But that has nothing to do with shoving a partisan, radical ideology down the throats of everyone who doesn’t agree with it — which, in particular, includes all real Christians in Boise. The LGBTQIA+/Pride cult is effectively a secular religion, or at least a sect of a secular religion. Giving these people — and only these people — the endorsement of the government is the exact opposite of “live and let live.” It is an attack on both Christianity and the national identity of this country. “Live your life and let them live their life” is precisely what you aren’t doing when you make a homosexual flag into an official flag of the city.

And again, the reason this is worth covering is that it’s happening all over the place. It’s not just New Hampshire and Idaho. It’s also happening in Utah, of all places. Take a look at this image:

There you see the mayor of Salt Lake, Erin Mendenhall. She’s unveiling a set of new flags that are officially sanctioned by the city, including an “LGBTQ+ Pride flag, the Juneteenth flag, and the transgender pride flag.” Just like in Boise, Salt Lake’s government is introducing these flags in response to a state law that prohibits government buildings from flying flags that don’t represent a city, municipality, county, et cetera. So their solution is to declare that the Juneteenth flag and the “Transgender Pride” flags do, in fact, represent the city of Salt Lake. Because nothing says Mormon values like BLM holidays and child castration, apparently.

These cities are doing the opposite of what they should be doing. I don’t just mean that they shouldn’t be recognizing the LGBT flag. Obviously they shouldn’t do that. I mean that the government shouldn’t recognize the “LGBT community” at all. LGBT people are not a nation, so it makes no sense for them to have a flag. They also aren’t a community. The fact that a bunch of people share the same sexual proclivity does not make them a real community, or a coherent group that the government should give any special recognition to at all.

It seems that the current administration realizes that. From the Post Millennial:

The Trump administration has slashed more than $800 million in federal research funding from the National Institutes of Health for studies related to LGBTQ health. … One example of cut funding included research being done at Harvard University’s Medical School regarding the mental health of LGBTQ youth. .. The funding was terminated by the NIH on March 12. The NIH informed [Harvard] that ‘Research programs based on gender identity are often unscientific, have little identifiable return on investment, and do nothing to enhance the health of many Americans. Many such studies ignore, rather than seriously examine, biological realities. It is the policy of NIH not to prioritize these research programs.’

One of the reasons this matters is that, at Harvard and many other universities, they blame Republican legislation for the “mental health” of “LGBTQ youth.” That’s the goal of these studies. They try to make the argument that, if you ban child castration, you’re going to cause mass suicides. The premise here is obviously ludicrous, because we didn’t have mass suicides back when transgenderism was a punchline, just a few decades ago. There were no mass suicides in response to “Mrs. Doubtfire,” as far as I know. But this is fake research. It’s explicitly political and fraudulent. And now it’s being shut down.

The Hill adds this: 

The HHS began laying off thousands of workers earlier this month, including personnel at the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis Prevention and the Global Health Center Division of Global HIV and TB. Within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s division of HIV prevention, five branches were eliminated completely, including the research, surveillance and prevention communication branches.

None of this is happening without a lot of complaining, as you might expect. NBC News interviewed the CEO of a gay nonprofit in Los Angeles, who issued this dire warning:

We have seen a radical decline in new HIV cases as a result of our HIV prevention efforts here in Los Angeles and what I’m incredibly worried about is if the county stops funding HIV prevention work, that new cases will skyrocket.

They also interviewed a scientist at Harvard who said: 

‘Most of my colleagues are afraid to speak out. … This is what authoritarianism looks like. Fear keeps people silent.’

So the message is that, by eliminating a bunch of fake research into homosexuality and gender, a lot of people are going to die. And specifically, the gay nonprofit guy in Los Angeles says that people are going to die of HIV, because apparently we need to study HIV some more. And if you disagree, you’re basically Hitler. What’s being overlooked here, of course, is how exactly HIV is spread. If you think about that for about two seconds, you’ll realize that in reality, the “impact” LGBT “health” issues are either made up or self-imposed. They’re very often the product of reckless and dangerous sexual behavior. The AIDS crisis is the most obvious example. Monkeypox is another one. It’s very easy to not get these diseases. We don’t need to study it anymore. Every rational adult knows how to avoid it. If you’re having random gay sex with strangers, you might get HIV and monkeypox. If you aren’t, you almost certainly won’t get either of those diseases. No need to spend another $100 million studying the issue.

In cities where the pride flag is the equivalent of the American flag, you’re not allowed to say any of this out loud. They’ll give you a lot of nasty looks in Boise and Salt Lake City if you besmirch the state religion. But the more these activists try to force this nonsense down our throats, the more it’s important to say what’s actually happening. So let’s do that. A country that recognizes multiple flags, carved out among various narcissistic interest groups, cannot survive for very long. Everyone knows that. As the random lady said at the Boise city council, only a dumb commie would disagree. And the more these cities pass absurd laws like this, and the more Harvard researchers pretend they need a few more billion dollars to study HIV, the more everyone can tell that the random lady in Boise is a lot smarter — and a whole lot more honest — than any of the activists and government officials who shouted her down. The LGBT club is clearly scrambling in desperation at the moment. All the Trump administration has to do now is continue what they’re doing, and take every step necessary to shut them down for good.

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