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.”
“…they could hang the full size flag of any recognized nation as long as they want.”
Hmm. So hanging a bunch of flags from random countries altogether like this would be okay:
(There aren’t great colour options in the flag palette and you’d probably have to overlap them too but whatever. You get the idea.)