LIBERTY HILL––Local citizens protested at a city council meeting as Mayor Liz Branigan issued a proclamation declaring June as “LGBTQ pride month.”
The proclamation by Branigan outlined how “Liberty Hill is a loving, supporting community,” and as a result, “the mayor proclaims the month of June as Pride month in Liberty Hill.”
Indeed, mayors of rural towns across the state have issued “pride” proclamations this month.
However, Liberty Hill citizens vehemently denounced the proclamation––calling it “unbiblical.”
“What you’ve done today is a slap in the face to every Christian in Liberty Hill,” John Jernigan, a citizen of the community for more than 20 years, told the Liberty Hill City Council. “You made this proclamation before anybody could say anything against it.”
Liberty Hill held a city council meeting Wednesday where several concerned citizens publicly commented on the proclamation while many more stood in the audience.
The main message: The citizens of Liberty Hill will not support the affirmation of LGBT ideology.
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“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent people.” ― George Orwell
Those places are really suburbs of Austin now, so double-good for them!
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
A city in Michigan votes to permanently ban Pride flags from display on public property during Pride Month https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/15/us/hamtra...16T06%3A45%3A03 By Eli Masket and Michelle Watson, CNN Published 3:11 PM EDT, Thu June 15, 2023
As communities across the United States celebrate June as Pride Month, a city near Detroit, Michigan, has voted to permanently ban the display of Pride flags on public property.
Hamtramck’s city council members voted unanimously Tuesday to approve the controversial resolution, which restricts the city from flying any “religious, ethnic, racial, political, or sexual orientation group flags” on public grounds, according to meeting minutes.
Residents and businesses will not be restricted from flying Pride or other flags on private property.
The resolution, brought by city council member Mohammed Hassan, says that the city will not provide special treatment to any group of people. City council members shared that flying a Pride flag could potentially lead to other “radical or racist groups” asking for their flags to be flown.
Dozens of community members spoke on the resolution during several hours allotted for public comment. One individual opposed to the resolution said, “For Hamtramck to attempt to equate the LGBTQ Pride flag with hate symbols, when it is a symbol of progress and love, is now a local attack on our community.”
Hamtramck is described in the resolution as “one of the most diverse cities in the United States.” The city has a large immigrant presence and all the city council members are of the Muslim faith, city manager Max Garbarino told CNN Thursday. Hamtramck was also the first known city in the US to inaugurate an all-Muslim government, CNN previously reported.
The resolution stipulates that along with the American flag, the city also flies flags “that represent the international character” of the area. It says that “each religious, ethnic, racial, political, or sexually oriented group is already represented by the country it belongs to.”
In an email sent to the city council, another resident said the idea that all groups are represented by their national flag of origin is “patently false.” -- excerpt, rest at link above --
Not a Christian area.
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
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