{"id":31952,"date":"2015-06-25T00:30:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T03:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=31952"},"modified":"2016-11-25T00:01:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T03:01:01","slug":"va-flies-lgbt-flag-instead-of-old-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/25\/va-flies-lgbt-flag-instead-of-old-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"VA Flies LGBT Flag instead of Old Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/helenava.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"471\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A local radio host <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernbroadcasting.com\/Talk\/FlintReportHeadlines\/tabid\/519\/ID\/13236\/Vets-Outraged-as-VA-Flies-LGBT-Flag-at-Fort-Harrison.aspx\">highlighted<\/a> the Montana Veterans Administration flying a rainbow-colored gay pride flag on its grounds rather than an American flag. Johnny Ginnity, VA director for Montana, said in reply:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I don&#8217;t really consider it a flag, it&#8217;s really a banner&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I have a mandate that tells me I have to observe the holiday&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ginnity ultimately <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktvh.com\/home\/headlines\/Ginnity-Flag-Supports-LGBT-Pride-Month-306856891.html\">defended<\/a> the gay pride flag in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The rainbow flag has flown over many US embassies (including <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2014\/06\/25\/us-flies-rainbow-flag-over-israel\/\">Israel<\/a>, which is relatively liberal on the issue, though the flag has apparently not been raised in any other Middle Eastern country)\u00a0and even in <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2012\/04\/03\/us-soldier-raises-gay-pride-flag-over-afghan-base\/\">Afghanistan<\/a>, as well as in &#8220;modified&#8221; US flags <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2015\/02\/11\/complaint-filed-over-lgbt-flag-on-us-air-force-base\/\">on US bases<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Also at the <a href=\"http:\/\/helenair.com\/news\/local\/veterans-affairs-flies-lgbt-pride-flag-some-not-happy-about\/article_81b589c9-6f7d-558e-b376-a30ce0f9751d.html\">Independent Record<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/veterans\/veteran-affairs-flies-lgbt-pride-flag-some-in-montana-not-happy-about-it-1.351484\">Stars and Stripes<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local radio host highlighted the Montana Veterans Administration flying a rainbow-colored gay pride flag on its grounds rather than an American flag. Johnny Ginnity, VA director for Montana, said in reply: I don&#8217;t really consider it a flag, it&#8217;s really a banner&#8230; I have a mandate that tells me I have to observe the holiday&#8230; Ginnity ultimately defended the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[58,219,4413,442,888,5213,2,2508,17,171,1813],"class_list":["post-31952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-afghanistan","tag-dadt","tag-embassy","tag-homosexual","tag-israel","tag-johnny-ginnity","tag-military","tag-montana","tag-religious-expression","tag-religious-freedom","tag-veterans-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}