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Christian man sues employer for forcing him to see a Pride flag on his way into work
(www.lgbtqnation.com)
Nowhere in the Bible does it mention the Pride flag.
this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2026
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There is pride and there is Pride
The first has Christ on their side
The latter knows not battle won
And thus cast out brightest sun
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The wolf inside is the wolfs fed
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The first has Christ on their side
Just so their's no misunderstanding by the illiterate and ignorant, I'm saying Jesus stands with us LGBTQ+ people. Therein, with no cultural structure to enforce positive behavior, the sexually immoral people (rapists, molesters, public masturbators, peeping Toms, etc) don't get the same feedback to save themselves from themselves.
It's hard out there for a wimp
Oh wow i really thought this was an onion article...
Fascist sues because he's reminded daily that he could be a nice and caring person if he wanted to
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... The United States of America
How much do you want to bet that this guy has been on the internet calling people snowflakes unironically?
Would be fun to see this lawsuit succeeding.
The Satanic Temple would have a field day suing everything christian by this precedent.
A satanist could even argue it causes them physical harm to be subjected to "holy" imagery against their will, if the scriptures are to be believed.
So can all his coworkers sue them because they have to look at this bigoted piece of shit every day?
This is literally what qualifies as "shoving it down our throats" when conservatives say that LGBT+ folks can live how they want but not shove it down everybody's throats. That's my personal experience with conservative relatives and locals, at least.
Being reminded that certain "other" people exist without being hunted down is all it takes to set them off.
So while the lawsuit is a stupid waste of resources, the basic dickhead at the center of it is probably genuinely motivated to pursue it.
Has he considered reading the Bible and following the teachings of Jesus Christ? It might help him understand what Christianity is supposed to be about.
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Sounds like a right snowflake
Sounds like he is very, VERY gay.
That has to be it, right?
If seeing a piece of cloth is so triggering, then maybe that's an indicator of a much more deep-rooted problem.
The "Christian men" who protest gay rights the loudest are usually the ones who wind up in the headlines when they get caught soliciting male prostitutes at rest areas.
Fucking snowflakes
I see confederate flags round here all the time and I don't feel forced to celebrate the confederacy.. idiot.
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I know I'm probably bucking the hive mind here, but I would actually support legislation that government owned building can fly only city, state, and country flags. I'm completely in on making sure that government policies are inclusive and protective of those needing them, but flags just seem performative. In fact, they could be counter productive; flying them "in support" while policies do not.
Which cities, states and countries can a building fly? Only their own? Could a federal building raise a flag for another nation in solidarity, even if support for said nation is polarizing? Flags are performative, but knowing what is allowed to be performed can be a good indicator for marginalized groups to know where they might be okay living, even if policies are quite there yet.
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Agreed. Plus a legal precedent in favor of pride flags, could cut the other way. On principle, I don't want to see hateful sentiment yield a legal victory. In practice, disallowing this kind of expression in government facilities would/should keep MAGA flags and other nonsense far from the same flagpoles. Or at the very least, it could be argued so in a second court case.
Why should the law treat these things as the same though? If the law is blind to bigotry then that's a larger problem.
Why should the law treat these things as the same though?
Good question. I think that the law is going to see a flag on a government flagpole from a "does this represent part of the government or not?" standpoint. In that context, the message the flag sends is irrelevant. In this, and possibly many other cases, it represents a third party that is getting notoriety and support from a government facility. Maybe it's okay if its declared as an official act by someone that has the power to do so, but then it probably won't be a one-off like the flag in the article.
In truth I freaking love that people put a pride flag in such a prominent place. It represents values that align with basic human dignity and are harmless to everyone. I'm just concerned that it's going to open up a whole can of worms that might make things worse. Then again, things are already pretty bad so clever tactics that exploit loopholes are warranted.
If the law is blind to bigotry then that’s a larger problem.
The de-facto environment out there is increasingly so. It is indeed a massive fucking problem.
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Christians like this are SO addicted to seeing themselves as victims.
Well the alternative is that they would have to help the poor and generally be a good member of society and that's too much like hard work so it's much easier to claim that they are the victim.
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There is a certain strain of Christianity that must see itself as the underdog in a cosmic war of good and evil. Everything fits into that overarching narrative.
I'm suing my employer because it rained today and I saw a rainbow.
disgusting.
A few of my muslim students said that they couldn't draw a rainbow in art class, "because in our religion this is a bad thing".
I asked them "but are not all of nature's wonders the work of Allah?" While I watched the gears rolling behind their eyes I told them to ask their imams "who makes the rainbows in the sky?". And that they may return their given assignments after having received the answer.
Everyone has so many theories about this guy’s motivations. I think it’s just capitalism manifest. This guy sees a way to make a buck litigating. Welcome to America.
I want to sue Eric Batman's parents, or whoever the fuck decided on that dogshit name.
Hate to break it to you, but they got killed by a mugger.
He's definitely a repressed gay then
Stop blaming Christian fundamentalist fascism on gay people.
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effectively forces him to “celebrate, recognize, and solemnize conduct and actions that he views as sin”
Well then it's a good thing that, "sin” as a purely theological term, has no meaning to the US government. Right?
Cue the 6 SCOTUS fucks busting through the wall like the koolaid man to make sinning illegal in their quest to turn the US into a christofascist theocracy
I also think the Progress Pride Flag represents conduct and actions I view as sin. Not like, gender/sexual sin. Design sin.
The rainbow flag was already perfect. The rainbow flag to me says "human behavior exists on a spectrum, and everyone matters". It's beautiful, elegant. The stripes don't represent distinct groups, though sinners (the flag redesigners, not LGBTQ+ people) have tried. The flag itself represents harmony in diversity. You can't get better than that, no notes.
The Progress flag is meddling with a perfect formula. It takes a perfect symbol to celebrate diversity itself and plasters it with footnotes. By highlighting specific groups that were included by the rainbow in the first place, it just opens the door to more and more complex revisions to include more and more distinct groups. It turns a poignant symbol of broad inclusiveness into a weird patchwork of granular inclusiveness. That would seem like hyperbole if the pictured flag wasn't already the intersex-inclusive revision.
It's just sloppy vexillology. The rainbow flag is awesome. Why are we fucking with it?
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It's very simple. We'll get rid of the pride flags as soon as they get rid of all the crosses. Fair is fair, after all.
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forcing to see is different. (Clockwork Orange) You can look the other way, teutonic twat.
Can I sue Eric Batman for having to see that he exists, and being upset by that fact?
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And not a single person has complained about being “forced” to see all the churches he also goes past.
I complain about that. Often.
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