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This article was first published by NBC Think. Embassy in Belize flew a rainbow flag to mark gay pride week. He previously worked as a civil servant in the State Department in the Obama and Trump administrations, serving in Washington and several posts overseas. embassies to fly the rainbow flag on flagpoles during June, LGBTQ Pride. Ryan Jones is a writer and producer at NBC News Now. embassies they can't fly pride flag on flagpoles The administration is rejecting requests from U.S. The allowance leads us ‘to May 17th, the International Day Against. Foreign Policy says it obtained a confidential cable sent to outposts globally, in which Antony gave the authorization. They should be able to raise the pride flag. diplomatic outposts around the planet can now fly the Pride flag on the same flagpole as the American flag. embassies during former President Barack Obama’s time in office, they were not allowed to be flown from the missions’ flagpoles under Trump, whose. Embassies should be allowed to use the position of American leadership for good. While pride flags were flown at many U.S. We have the potential to lead many countries by example - but only if we continue our tradition of starting the conversation. panel to redefine human rights based on 'natural law. evolution on LGBTQ equality is rocky and ongoing, but our discussion of it is also honest. A gay pride flag is raised next to the US flag is at the former US embassy in Tel Aviv, June 13, 2014, in this file photo. LGBTQ equality is a perfect example of this ongoing process, and even the pride flag itself is symbolic of the LGBTQ community’s continuing need to be more inclusive of people of color. flag and Pride flag to half-mast, following a mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub, at the U.S. But one of the things that sets us apart from other countries is our ability and willingness to have hard conversations when we need to - conversations that honor how far we’ve come, while talking openly about what we still have yet to do. is not an equal society, and it has a long way to go before it can truly call itself one. In 2013, for example, Francis said: “If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge him?” More recently in 2020, Francis told a group of parents of LGBTQ children that “God loves your children as they are” and “the church loves your children as they are because they are children of God.The U.S. While the Catholic Church has traditionally been opposed to gay marriage, Pope Francis has made a few statements over the years that seemed to contradict the church’s position on homosexuality. The Vatican has not commented on this display of the flag. way to achieve that is to fly the rainbow flag, the symbol of lesbian, gay.
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The Trump administration prohibited this in June 2019. A United States flag flies alongside a Pride flag at the U.S. embassies are now authorized to fly the pride flag on the same pole as the American flag. Evangelist Franklin Graham, for example, called the display an “insult to the Catholic Church!” (nktwentythree/iStock) Story at a glance U.S. Embassy to the Holy See drew some criticism from conservative critics. “As we celebrate Pride Month this June, let us not only observe how far we have come in the struggle for the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons, but also acknowledge the challenges that remain.” If you mean like in solidarity beneath the US flag Sure. The first showed the White House bathed in rainbow lights, and the second accompanied a statement from U.S. I dont find the Pride flag offensive its just not the US flag. Embassy to the Holy See posted two other photographs featuring the flag’s rainbow colors on that day.