Idaho Senate passes bill to prevent local, state governments from displaying some flags

Miami Beach Pride kicks off as Florida considers banning flying rainbow flags

Lawmakers in the state are proposing a series of bans and restrictions, including whether local governments, schools, and state universities can even fly the Pride flag.

Idaho Senate passes bill to prevent local, state governments from displaying some flags

BOISE (Idaho Capital Sun) — The Idaho Senate in a 20-11 vote on Wednesday advanced a bill to prevent government entities from displaying certain flags.  House Bill 96 prevents government entities from displaying flags on its properties, with exceptions to:  The U.S. flag The official flag of a government entity U.S. state flags Military flags  POW/MIA […]

‘Tone deaf’ proposal to ban pride flags, among others, meets dead end

A freshman legislator rushed to block his own bill from advancing through the state Legislature after he compared support of the LGBTQ community to supporting Nazi ideology.  House Bill 2113 would have banned any flag other than the approved flags of the United States, POW and MIA flags, the Arizona flag, Arizona Indian Nations flag, first responder flags, historic American flags, and “blue star service or a gold star service” flags from being d…