A bill advanced by Florida Republicans on Wednesday would ban teachers and other government employees from displaying a rainbow flag – even wearing one as a lapel pin for a day – but they could hang the full-size flag of any “recognized nation” as long as they want, according to the bill’s sponsor.
Flag displays that depict a “racial, sexual orientation and gender, or political ideology viewpoint” would be banned from any state or local government building, including public schools and universities, under the bill authored by GOP Rep. David Borrero.
Opponents say the bill is inspired by hate. Borrero said it protects children and it would ban even lapel pins representing the flags of the LGBTQ+ and Black Lives Matter movements.
“Public classrooms should not be the place where our kids go to be radicalized and evangelized into accepting these partisan, radical ideologies,” Borrero said. “It’s wholly inappropriate to be putting those types of flags in front of public school students and in government buildings.”
Sounds like a great day to explore vexillology in the classroom and accidentally-on-purpose ROYGBIV some large recognized nation flags across the wall. Like China, East Timor, Bhutan, Brazil (or Saudi Arabia, but you know MAGAs lose their shit when they see Arabic), Somalia, and possibly Belize to fake the violet, or sneak in a bit of Iroquois Confederacy.
Seriously, just talk about flags. Why this or that color? Why stripes, why solid fields? What does the symbolism mean? That would be very, very cool, IMO.
EDITED TO ADD: Wikipedia has a list of flags by color and there are even more elsewhere on the web; look them over and see if you too can construct a clearly ROYGBIV flag assembly consisting of “recognized nation” flags for the suffering kids in Florida getting propaganda instead of real education. It’s fun! (But I might be prejudiced, I really like flags, lol.)