{"id":142460,"date":"2023-06-07T12:47:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T16:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=142460"},"modified":"2023-06-07T12:48:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T16:48:34","slug":"rainbow-lgbtq-flag-flown-over-veteran-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=142460","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow LGBTQ flag flown over veteran facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_142461\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-142461\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/A-pride-flag-where-a-US-flag-would-normally-be-at-the-entrance-of-the-Biloxi-VA-Medical-Center-by-Carl-Boyanton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-142461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/A-pride-flag-where-a-US-flag-would-normally-be-at-the-entrance-of-the-Biloxi-VA-Medical-Center-by-Carl-Boyanton-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/A-pride-flag-where-a-US-flag-would-normally-be-at-the-entrance-of-the-Biloxi-VA-Medical-Center-by-Carl-Boyanton-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/A-pride-flag-where-a-US-flag-would-normally-be-at-the-entrance-of-the-Biloxi-VA-Medical-Center-by-Carl-Boyanton-414x333.jpg 414w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/A-pride-flag-where-a-US-flag-would-normally-be-at-the-entrance-of-the-Biloxi-VA-Medical-Center-by-Carl-Boyanton.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-142461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">A pride flag where a US flag would normally be at the entrance of the Biloxi VA Medical Center. (Carl Boyanton)<\/span><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>VA officials at Biloxi raised up a rainbow LGBTQ flag at the Biloxi National Cemetery and at their VA medical campus. There were other US flags showing, but one was replaced by the rainbow flag. State Republican leaders are calling on the VA to lower these flags and to restore the US flags that normally fly on those flagpoles. In response, the VA recognized people&#8217;s rights to protest; however, they reiterated the VA&#8217;s commitment to inclusion.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>From Fox News:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We believe this decisions shows deep disrespect to our service members, veterans and their families, and demand that you take immediate action to restore the United States flag to its rightful place at Veterans Affairs facilities across the state of Mississippi,&#8221; five Mississippi Republicans wrote in a letter to McDonough Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Replacing the United States flag with a flag that promotes particular sexual or gender identity goes against the very mission of our national cemeteries,&#8221; the Republicans wrote in a joint letter. &#8220;This political stunt is yet another example of this Administration&#8217;s willingness to promote its political agenda rather than focus on its mission as the executive branch. Our veterans expect the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide services, not promote controversial ideologies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some residents also participated in an &#8220;impromptu protest against the disrespecting of our veterans&#8221; outside Biloxi National Cemetery this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Taking down American flags and replacing them with pride flags is a disgrace. All people are represented by the Stars and Stripes. Black, white, latino, gay, straight, Christian, Jewish or Muslim are all represented under the US Flag,&#8221; Mississippi resident Carl Boyanton wrote on Facebook from the site of the protest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fox News has additional information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/va-replacing-american-flag-pride-flag-veteran-cemetery-state-gop-demands-removal\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VA officials at Biloxi raised up a rainbow LGBTQ flag at the Biloxi National Cemetery and &hellip; <a title=\"Rainbow LGBTQ flag flown over veteran facilities\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=142460\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rainbow LGBTQ flag flown over veteran facilities<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,220,598,226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-get-woke","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}