“Chopping off your nostril to spite your face” is a metaphorical expression.
I’m not letting most of you, our infinitely smart readership, at residence in on this self-evident reality. As a substitute, that is extra of a public service announcement to the household, buddies, and associates of these employed or elected by the cities of Boise, Idaho, and Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah: Preserve sharp objects away from these individuals for the subsequent few weeks or anytime you hear somebody saying one thing about their visage. Thank me later.
I point out this as a result of, inside hours of one another, lawmakers in each state capitals, 330 miles away, handed legal guidelines that made the LGBT rainbow “pride” flag and different flags official metropolis flags so as to sidestep state legal guidelines that may have barred the show of such flags.
In response to KSL-TV in Salt Lake Metropolis, “[t]he new flags would add the sego lily emblem from Salt Lake Metropolis’s metropolis flag to the Juneteenth, Progress Pleasure and transgender flags” so as to make them official metropolis flags, basically a transfer to sidestep a invoice that may ban flying most flags that weren’t the official nationwide, state, metropolis, or faculty flags.
BoiseDev reported an identical reasoning behind the transfer “retroactively designating the Pleasure flag and the Donate Life flag, commemorating April as Donate Life Month, honoring the advantages of organ donation, as official flags of the Metropolis of Boise. This places these two flags alongside the standard blue Metropolis of Boise flag that includes the Idaho State Capitol as official flags of town’s authorities.”
“This transfer comes after weeks of pressure over [the mayor’s] choice to proceed flying the Progress Pleasure flag in entrance of metropolis corridor in defiance of HB 96 introduced by Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard.
“That invoice, handed within the 2025 legislative session, restricted the flags native governments in Idaho can fly to a selected checklist of flags, together with the USA flag, the State of Idaho flag, official metropolis flags, the POW/MIA flag, branches of the U.S. navy, Indian tribal flags, flags for faculties, universities or public colleges and the flags of different nations for particular events.”
Now, it’s price mentioning that, when conservatives protested in opposition to the common safety for killing infants within the womb and for same-sex marriage, the Supreme Court docket miraculously found within the Structure — we have been reminded that we have been one nation and may respect the regulation of that nation — “penumbras” and “emanations” conveniently positioned in a vaguely written amendment, which initially handled the aftermath of the Civil Conflict however is now used as a cudgel for each left-wing trigger that can’t cross muster on the poll field.
Now, two states have handed completely authorized and clear legal guidelines about what flags could also be displayed, a transparent shot throughout the bow of liberal locales that put rainbow or transgender flags atop poles throughout town for “pleasure” month, typically overshadowing or ignoring the flag of the nation or state and alienating the citizens.
Very properly, Boise and Salt Lake Metropolis are saying after the massive backlash: We’re going to make symbols of enforced acceptance of sexual deviance official metropolis flags as a result of nyahhhh!
“The suggestions we’ve got gotten since we ventured into this area has been overwhelming from native Boiseans in assist of this as a result of we all know that’s not only a flag. We all know it says who we’re, and we all know that this invoice was about only one flag,” Boise Mayor Lauren McLean mentioned.
“We now have three official flags on this metropolis in response to this invoice, however most significantly, that motion demonstrates who we’re, the values we maintain, our dedication to these seen and unseen to point out you’re welcome and wished right here.”
Except you maintain to scripturally held views of gender and sexuality that return 1000’s of years, then you possibly can go to hell. (Effectively, maybe not within the afterlife, however not less than in Boise.)
Salt Lake Metropolis Mayor Erin Mendenhall expressed related sentiments.
“These metropolis flags symbolize the concepts and ideas Salt Lakers know as core tenets — belonging and acceptance, or higher acknowledged: range, fairness, inclusion,” she mentioned.
However after all: “The brand new flags wouldn’t substitute town’s main flag, which was adopted in 2020,” KSL reported.
Not that these are wherever close to as evil because the “segregation academies” adopted within the South after the federal authorities had the temerity to implement integration and equality beneath the regulation — ostensibly “non-public” colleges that might nonetheless segregate till a later Supreme Court docket choice utilized Brown v. Board of Training to all colleges, however which have been funded by the group and, in some instances, governments as a workaround and have been principally public to white college students — however the precept and the motivating spirit is identical: If the federal government stops you from divisive social insurance policies, don’t pay attention, don’t study, discover loopholes.
Have 60 flags, whilst you’re at it. Simply be sure that none have a cross on it. And a Star of David? Burn that factor, lest the native Islamic group see it. (Crescent and star flags are OK for proper now, simply as long as Muslims maintain voting Democrat. As soon as they stray off the plantation, hoist the Charlie Hebdo flag excessive.)
That is all fairly foolish, doubly so when you think about these are gentle blue cities in darkish crimson states the place a small group of Karens with “Coexist” bumper-sticker-bedecked Subarus have determined they will’t coexist with the regulation, in order that they’re making a mockery of it. That’s how sacred they consider these flags to be — and what we will count on because the wave of woke crests and rolls again into to the ocean.
Mark my phrases: Simply because the South had segregation academies, the lefty enclaves will finally have 23 official metropolis flags, 22 of them celebrating sin and one among them being the precise flag.
The latter could seem trivial in comparison with the previous — however in the event you suppose politico-sponsored mockery of equality beneath the regulation is dangerous, simply wait till you see the place bureaucratic mockery of God takes us. That is simply one of many sillier signs of a deadly disease upon the American body politic.
Come to consider it, if we will cease the metastasis by eradicating the nostril, perhaps there’s hope. Preserve these sharp objects round in any case, my Boise and Salt Lake Metropolis peeps. Simply don’t let your lawmakers close to you with them.
This text appeared initially on The Western Journal.
