Religious right calls for removal of pride flag

Jacob Nierenberg • Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Religious right calls for removal of pride flag</h1>
                <h2><p>The recent backlash against the Confederate flag won’t end centuries of American racism all on its own, but it is a step in the right direction. In a strange act of retaliation, far-right pundits are now calling for a ban of the gay pride flag. According to Breitbart editor</p></h2>
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            <p>The recent backlash against the Confederate flag won’t end centuries of American racism all on its own, but it is a step in the right direction. In a strange act of retaliation, far-right pundits are now calling for a ban of the gay pride flag. According to Breitbart editor John Nolte, the flag casts a shadow of “<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/23/take-down-the-fascist-anti-christian-gay-pride-flag/?ref=avalancheghost.one">hate, oppression, and bigotry</a>” wherever it flies. Nolte is somehow <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiibClEZ6Fo&ref=avalancheghost.one">not alone</a> in his stance, and he’s not above comparing gay people to Nazis. On the other side, Dan Savage  <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/06/24/22444378/religious-right-demands-that-the-pride-flag-be-taken-down?ref=avalancheghost.one">argues</a> that the comparison between the pride flag and the Confederate flag is hypocritical and tone-deaf with regard to both sexuality and race. Somehow we don't think these arguments will sway the Confederate flag fans making these comparisons.</p>
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The recent backlash against the Confederate flag won’t end centuries of American racism all on its own, but it is a step in the right direction. In a strange act of retaliation, far-right pundits are now calling for a ban of the gay pride flag. According to Breitbart editor John Nolte, the flag casts a shadow of “hate, oppression, and bigotry” wherever it flies. Nolte is somehow not alone in his stance, and he’s not above comparing gay people to Nazis. On the other side, Dan Savage argues that the comparison between the pride flag and the Confederate flag is hypocritical and tone-deaf with regard to both sexuality and race. Somehow we don't think these arguments will sway the Confederate flag fans making these comparisons.

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By Jacob Nierenberg

Jacob Nierenberg is an editorial intern at Crosscut. He has lived in Washington for nearly all of his life, and still proudly identifies with the Pacific Northwest despite his relocation to Stanford U