Santa Ana Eyes Plan For Permanent Display Of Gay Pride Flag At City Hall
SANTA ANA (CBSLA.com) — Officials in Santa Ana are set to consider a proposal that would permanently fly the gay pride flag outside City Hall.
Councilman Sal Tinajera introduced the plan earlier in July, which calls for Santa Ana to display the rainbow-colored flag alongside the American flag and the California state flag, according to the Orange County Register.
If adopted, the proposal would reportedly make Santa Ana the first Orange County city to fly the flag.
The city flew the flag on July 7 for the City Council’s first meeting since the Supreme Court ruled in favor of gay marriage June 27.
Tinajero – whose son Salvador is gay – told The Register he introduced the plan in order to send a “message of inclusion”.
A City In California Wants To Do WHAT With The Gay Pride Flag?
Let's see - so if Santa Ana City Council decide to approve this cockamamie plan, they will be showing solidarity with roughly 3% of their population and COMPLETELY IGNORING the rest of their citizens. All because one city councilman's son is gay.
Dude - show up at a gay pride parade or help plan his gay wedding or do something else on your own time with your family to show your son how much you love and support him. Fly the gay pride flag if your front yard! Nobody's stopping you from doing that. Don't foist the gay pride flag on your entire freaking city!
The only flags that should be flying over city, county, and state buildings are the American flag and whatever state, county, or city flags that are associated with those particular areas. That's it! Because those institutions represent everybody! Straight, gay, Christian, atheist, black, white, Republican, Democrat, etc., repeat ad infinitum. You certainly don't see cities planning to fly the Confederate flag or the Christian flag or the "Don't Tread on Me" flag or flags with a local sports team's logo alongside the American flag. Why? Because those aren't officially-sanctioned symbols of our government! That was ultimately the reason South Carolina took down the Confederate flag from over their statehouse - it had very little to do with what people thought the flag meant.