Number one, people that enter this country illegally violate the laws of this country. "DIRECTOR HOMAN: I think you're misinterpreting what I’m saying. From a wh press briefing on immigration:Ī quote of interest, a reply to a question asking if undocumented (here illegally) immigrants are more or likely to commit crimes. Here's a perfect example of an adult YF, no mind-manipulating humor anywhere to be found. I don't think anyone has a problem with other group flying their flags. As for showing flags for other groups, have at it. It is up for a couple of days out of the year. I have had people tell me right to my face that I should just go a way and die because "my kind" is not welcome.Īnd as for the flag, get over it folks. There was a point in my life where I could have saved children and puppies from a burning building, but because I was gay, people thought I should have died in the fire. Unless you have walked in the shoes of someone who is considered a member of a minority group, you have absolutely no idea at all what it is like to feel hated and rejected just because of who you are. I personally have relatives and friends who had this scenario happen and they were not allowed to be with their loved ones during an emergency because they were not family, never mind the fact that they have lived together as a couple/family for decades. Well it is nice for certain people like myself to know that if for whatever reason myself or my husband of 24+ years can go to a medical institution and not have to worry about either one of us not being able to see the other in an emergency. You know, like flying a Jolly Roger on Talk Like a Pirate Day. Or, at the very least, if you're going to fly a rainbow flag, to recognize gay rights, then you ought to keep changing the flag, so that everyone gets recognized. It says, "We support everyone's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, no matter who they are, and we don't play favorites based on gender or race or religion or sexual identity." And thus, I think that simply flying the American flag is enough. SOME people will be offended by it, and that is only fanning the flames of division. And I don't think that a quasi-public hospital flying a flag that essential says "We support gay rights" is helping. I think what the nation needs right now is more unity, working together to solve the country's problems to the greatest benefit to all. And right now, the nation is greatly divided-along political, religious, ethnic, and moral lines-and it's slowly tearing the nation apart (as can be noted by many of the comments above).
Hospitals are seen, to many, as public institutions, even though most are privately run. I do, however, think that flying it at the hospital is mildly inappropriate, in this day and age.
I don't care if someone is gay or whether they want to fly a rainbow flag. When we stop learning about history, we are doomed to repeat it!!!! If you don't like the pride flag, don't go visit it at the hospital. To each is own.if you don't like the statues of Confederate Generals don't visit them. What if there was a group that was not OK with the pride flag at the hospital, should they be made to take that down too? (I don't think either should be taken down) Open your mind for a second when you read this and be honestly objective.Why is it any different recognizing the person that came up with the pride flag and his movement, and recognizing Generals in the confederate army? One we had to take down because it offended a group and the other we are OK with. We don't have to glorify these events but we should remember them. Some of these landmarks are not the best thing that has happened to America, but it still happened and we need to remember that. Then we will be bringing up a generation of "idiots". If the states and government continue to remove landmarks that deal with the history of what has taken place in America, next they will be removed from the history books as well. Strangerdanger - "Actually this just proves people are idiots, our school system needs to teach proper history, or a bit of both."