6/08/2005

Banning the Rainbow Flag

Some of the community and local council in Westminster want to ban the rainbow flag because they view it as visual clutter that discourages the local economy and offends visitors. I think the same could be said for a lot of places by a variety of people! Why this item, why now?

How do can we accept/adopt a universal standard of what is "right" when groups have different definitions of that work into their idea of "right"? A conundrum indeed.

Is it possible to find even the thinnest piece of commonality (humanity seems natural, but I think that it is too simple?) that we can agree on for symbols, tolerance, preservation of heritage or (sub) cultural pride?

Tough question... I'll have to ponder that for a while.

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