Hamtramck, Michigan’s city council, says the ban on Pride flags is about respecting the religious rights of its people.
After a strange and tense meeting, a city near Detroit, Michigan, decides not to let Pride flags fly on public land.
Tuesday, the Hamtramck City Council decided to stop letting Pride flags fly from public flagpoles. This is because some religious groups don’t agree with the idea that the flag represents.
“We want to respect the religious rights of our citizens,” Councilmember Nayeem Choudhury told Fox 2 Detroit.
All of the people on the Hamtramck City Council are Muslims, and about 40% of the people who live there were born in other countries.
When a woman with a clown nose got up to make fun of the Pride flag argument, the meeting took a strange turn.
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“Yes, many people in Hamtramck have left countries where being gay means death, but that doesn’t mean we have to make it “comfortable” and “welcoming” here,” the woman said in a mocking speech.
She went on to say, “While we can’t legally discriminate against LGBTQ people in the United States anymore, the City of Hamtramck can say, ‘Ew, no, be proud somewhere else.'”
In her funny statement to the city council, another woman who was helping her held visual jokes. At the end of their talk, the two people protested by kissing each other.
“You guys are welcome,” Choudhury told them. “Why does the flag have to be displayed on government property for it to be a symbol?”
“You already have a voice. We know who you are already,” he said.
The council’s decision that the Pride flag can’t be flown on public land doesn’t affect companies or homes.
The move says that five different flags can be flown on public property: the U.S. flag, the Michigan flag, the Hamtramck flag, the Prisoner of War flag, and a special flag that shows the countries where many Hamtramck residents come from.
