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is wrong with people?LGBT Flag Outside Florida County Center Is Unbearable, Says Christian Employee
by Hemant Mehta
After the mass shooting in Orlando last week, a rainbow flag went up outside the county center in Hillsborough, Florida. But a complaint from a Christian may soon bring it down:
49 people were gunned down at a gay nightclub, but Kim Davis: Florida Edition cant handle looking at a rainbow flag. This isnt an anti-Christian symbol. This isnt the promotion of any controversial position. This is merely showing solidarity with a group of people who were targeted in an all-out attack. But I guess showing empathy for dead people is too hostile for her.
Its only divisive if youre an asshole.
by Hemant Mehta
After the mass shooting in Orlando last week, a rainbow flag went up outside the county center in Hillsborough, Florida. But a complaint from a Christian may soon bring it down:
In an email sent to the county human relations director Peggy Rowe on Thursday, Commissioner Stacy White said he received an anonymous complaint from a county employee that the presence of the flag was nearly unbearable for her to pass on her way to work and created a hostile work environment.
49 people were gunned down at a gay nightclub, but Kim Davis: Florida Edition cant handle looking at a rainbow flag. This isnt an anti-Christian symbol. This isnt the promotion of any controversial position. This is merely showing solidarity with a group of people who were targeted in an all-out attack. But I guess showing empathy for dead people is too hostile for her.
Commissioner Stacy White is furious with his colleagues for voting 5-1 to raise the flag on Wednesday without considering the impact it would have on bigots: It is still in my view unconscionable that the county administrator didnt express to the board that this divisive symbol might create an uncomfortable workplace environment for many of his employees.
Its only divisive if youre an asshole.
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It’s only divisive if you’re an asshole (Original Post)
pokerfan
Jun 2016
OP
Tolerance is hostility? 1984 was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not a how-to book.
uppityperson
Jun 2016
#3
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)1. Genesis 9:13
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Yea, I don't get it either.
What's the problem?
independentpiney
(1,510 posts)2. I doubt very much there was an anonymous complaint
like most family values republicans, Stacy White is a lying hypocrite as well as a bigoted asshole.
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)4. Yeah, pretty much what I thought as well
Staunch (stench?) conservative is also a liar. Big surprise.
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)3. Tolerance is hostility? 1984 was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not a how-to book.