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Originally Posted by J epworth kendal
Like I said earlier in the thread, that's exactly what the pride flag is, to celebrate that you can live life to the fullest no matter your sexual orientation. It is just as much a flag for straight people as it is for LGBT people. It's a symbol that we live in a city where it doesn't matter what your sexual orientation is, you're accepted by everyone.
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The following words, spoken on that momentous day by the Honourable Maurice Bourget, Speaker of the Senate, added further symbolic meaning to our flag: "The flag is the symbol of the nation's unity, for it, beyond any doubt, represents all the citizens of Canada without distinction of race, language, belief or opinion."
I'm damn proud to live in a Country where the rights of all their citizens are closer to equality than almost any other in the world. Why do we need another flag to say what you just said? IMO we don't. That's why I feel it is unnecessary to fly the Pride flag. If anyone doesn't like it, so what? It does not make me any less of a person towards others for feeling so.
Thus is my crux with flying another flag for single special interest group when the one we have does its job just fine.
Like I said in my first post, if you feel the need to fly the flag of one special interest group, fly them all. And I am not wrong or homophobic for saying that.