Saturday, the Biden Administration held a Pride Month event at the White House. Sure, it was a political event held for political purposes. But the Biden Administration is not the first now will it be the last to use the White House as a political prop.
This is the problem.
It’s pretty wild that in the days before Flag Day, the day when we commemorate the United States flag and the symbolism it provides in unifying the country, the Biden Administration committed such a divisive and ill-thought-out act.
If you aren't offended by the Pride flag getting pride of place over the U.S. Flag, you don't understand the problem. Because the display of the Pride Flag in this way isn't just offensive. It's illegal.
Title 4, Chapter 1 of the United States Code is the U.S. Flag code. Section 8, Respect for Flag, reads as follows:
No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America; the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing. Regimental colors, State flags, and organization or institutional flags are to be dipped as a mark of honor.
The flag, when carried in a procession with another flag or flags, should be either on the marching right; that is, the flag’s own right, or, if there is a line of other flags, in front of the center of that line.
There is never an appropriate time to fly any flag at a place of prominence greater than that of the United States flag. Certainly not the divisive political flag of an unrecognized entity that has no legal status as a flag and one that is so disrespectful to the majority of Americans.
And that’s really the problem here. The Flag Code is the secondary player here, particularly since there are no criminal penalties for violation of the flag code.
The main issue is that whoever in the Biden Administration made the decision to arrange the flags like this did so knowing that it gives prominence to the LGTBQ flag over the United States Flag. In that manner, the Biden Administration is saying that serving the LBGTQ agenda is more important than serving the United States of America. That’s an especially dangerous message given the insanity of state legislatures that wish to legalize sex change operations for teenagers at a time where the general public is starting to push back on LGTBQ issues, particularly when it comes to transgender policy.
The Biden Administration is free to support whatever politics they wish. But this flag display is a giant middle finger to the majority of Americans.