Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has introduced a bill that aims to prohibit embassies and other diplomatic missions from displaying non-U.S. flags larger and higher than the American flag. The bill comes in response to the recent State Department policy change allowing the display of the LGBTQIAAP2S+ flag at diplomatic outposts.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) introduced a one-page bill on Thursday that would prohibit embassies and other diplomatic missions , as well as official American government vehicles, from displaying non-U.S. flags larger and higher than the American flag. The bill is necessary, Sen. Rubio told Breitbart News, because “woke ideology” is threatening to “take that sense of national pride from us” in the form of conspicuous displays of non-American flags abroad in contexts representing the United States.
The introduction of the bill follows a major change in State Department policy under President Joe Biden. Less than a month after Biden’s inauguration, Secretary of State Antony Blinkendirectives that allowed embassies, consulates, and other diplomatic outposts around the world to display the LGBTQIAAP2S+ flag, an updated design modifying the original “rainbow flag” representing gay and lesbian peopl
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