Florida GOP lawmakers seek to ban rainbow flags in schools, saying they're bad for students

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Florida GOP lawmakers seek to ban rainbow flags in schools, saying they’re bad for students

BY BRENDAN FARRINGTON
Updated 5:53 PM EST, January 17, 2024

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A bill advanced by Florida Republicans on Wednesday would ban teachers and other government employees from displaying a rainbow flag -- even wearing one as a lapel pin for a day -- but they could hang the full-size flag of any “recognized nation” as long as they want, according to the bill’s sponsor.

Flag displays that depict a “racial, sexual orientation and gender, or political ideology viewpoint” would be banned from any state or local government building, including public schools and universities, under the bill authored by GOP Rep. David Borrero.

Opponents say the bill is inspired by hate. Borrero said it protects children and it would ban even lapel pins representing the flags of the LGBTQ+ and Black Lives Matter movements.

“Public classrooms should not be the place where our kids go to be radicalized and evangelized into accepting these partisan, radical ideologies,” Borrero said. “It’s wholly inappropriate to be putting those types of flags in front of public school students and in government buildings.”

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/lgbtq-desantis-florida-goverment-cb504dfe7d344dfb0bc9a54cfc157b4b

[louis-t]

1. Ban flags, books, words, ideas....

then tell you how 'free' you are.

[Traildogbob]

2. Wait!

He said schools should not be a place for students to be evangelized!!! WTF. It’s exactly what they are doing. They want our schools to be like extremist Muslim countries that spend all day everyday praying and memorizing their magic book.
Florida is the petri dish exposing GQP to its core, and like DeSatan is yelling, “Make America Florida.”
When we take back all other states, or even most of them, we should round up MAGA’s and bus em to Florida, then let Florida pay for THE wall to confine them. Sorry Good Florida Dems, but how far are you willing to go to stay under this rule?
Besides, MAGA God lives there, why not go to him as you use to want to end up in the other God’s hood.
Free transportation for MAGA to get through the pearly gates and to their earth God. Dump em all at Mardi Lardo. Trump will lovingly welcome all his children.
If Trump is their God, who is their Jebus, Jr, Eric the child cancer fund thief, or maybe Barron, the son of the Virgin Melania?

[OldBaldy1701E]

8. I was just about to say this. Thank you. (n/t)

[Traildogbob]

9. 🤜🤛

[RKP5637]

3. Florida is a really a fucked up place for everyone. Any thinking this is just LGBT had

better pay attention, they will be coming for you next. This is how fascism works, edge in a bit at a time. It worked in Germany and it will work in the US. These people are dangerous, they are united across the country. And then there is Project 2025. I still fear far too many Americans are aloof as to what is going on. Hang on, we might slide into a totalitarian state.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Guns good, rainbows bad.

This is the kind of country we live in.

[Walleye]

5. I guess they won't make a law to ban the confederate flag, or the Nazi flag with a swastika.

But what do they do when a rainbow appears in the sky? Close the blinds, make the kids go inside? I voted for Jesse Jackson in the 80s, he called his followers the rainbow coalition. Hard to believe we were so much more innocent than

[CurtEastPoint]

6. IRONY ALERT: This pencildick douchebag is all for .....

[Freethinker65]

7. Are upside down US flags permitted?

[The Wizard]

10. We tried to ban fascism in the 40s

They're back and they now have TV to spread their propaganda.

[twodogsbarking]

11. If you stare at a rainbow you will be gay. Make rainbows illegal.

[Timeflyer]

12. Because attacking rainbow flags in public schools is the most important issue facing the state--yeah.