Gay pride confederate flag

By John R. Vile, published on February 24, Adobe Stock photo. Flags serve as important symbols. The U. West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette has confederate established that school students cannot be forced to salute the flag against their convictions. Court decisions, pride notably in Texas v. Johnson and United States v.

Eichmanhave affirmed the right of protestors to burn the flag in protest of governmental policies as an act of symbolic gaywith due regard for time, place, and manner restrictions. Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District in that case wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam War had previously extended some rights of symbolic speech to public school children.

Some flags, most notably a flag representing the Ku Klux Klan or the Confederate States of America, flag represent or provoke violence, and many schools have banned such flags or other attempts at symbolic intimidation. In Melton v. Young 6 th Cir. Some schools have also banned symbols supporting the Black Lives Matter symbols on the basis that they might be too provocative Pendharkar What about other flags or symbols?

Although U. Although the symbol has symbolic roots that date back to the biblical book of Genesis and beyond into the world of art and play Rainbow Dash was a Pegasus pony portrayed with a rainbow tailthe multicolored LGBTQ rainbow flag, which was invented by Gilbert Baker of San Francisco, California, inhas become a symbol of LGBTQ rights.

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Although the flag is not, like some other symbols, associated with intimidation, it might well lead to provocative discussions about sexual identities, which some might consider to be inappropriate, especially for students in lower grades. In Mahmoud v. TaylorU. Supreme Court ruled that parents have the right under the free exercise of religion clause of the First Amendment to exempt their students from classroom presentations on gay marriage and trans students.

Gino Bulso, a Republican state representative from Brentwood, Tennessee, who sponsored a bill banning any flags on public or charter school properties, other than the U. Under the doctrine of government speechit is not clear, however, whether this would apply to a law that banned all flags other than the national and state flags, especially in school settings that involve more impressionable students in a mandated setting.

In Shurtleff v. BostonU. Inthe state of Utah banned the display of any flags on governmental properties other than the U. In an attempt to indicate its own inclusiveness, the city of Salt Lake City, followed the earlier example of Boise City, Idaho, in incorporating the design of the rainbow flag into its city flag Adams in a move that will likely be contested in court.