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Voters in California’s conservative Huntington Beach approved a measure that would restrict all non-government flags from being flown on city property, prompting backlash from LGBTQ advocates.
Measure B, authored by Huntington Beach City Councilman Pat Burns, passed with more than half of the city’s vote, according to the latest tally on the county’s registrar website.
The measure, for which voters cast their ballots on Super Tuesday, will prohibit breast cancer awareness, Pride, Confederate and all other non-U.S flags on city property. Burns told Fox News Digital in an interview that the measure was not meant to be discriminatory against any group, but to encourage residents to unite under a common American identity. Most of the backlash Burns said he has received has been from LGBTQ advocates.
Burns said for the past two years, the city has flown the LGBTQ rainbow flag during Pride month, but he explained why he really feels the flag is an insult to the LGBTQ community.
“I’m against the identity politics, I think it’s divisive,” Burns said Friday. “I think it’s demeaning to be honest, that flag, that I find is so insulting to LGBTQ. And I know that they support it, but in my mind, it’s demeaning that they need some kind of special recognition to feel like they’re part of our community. People are equal and those kinds of things are divisive.”
Under the new measure, only the following flags can now be flown on city property:
- U.S. flag
- State of California flag
- County of Orange flag
- City of Huntington Beach flag
- POW-MIA flag
- The six Armed Forces flags
- Olympic flag during the Summer Olympic Games
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— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 10, 2024
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