May 10,2017
the staff of the Ridgewood
Ridgewood NJ, Mayor Knudsen read a statement addressing displaying the “Pride Flag” in the Village of Ridgewood .The Mayor answered some over the top criticism , name calling and threats toward the Village council over that flag .
The Village Council approved flying a rainbow flag, a symbol of gay pride, at Van Neste Square for the month of June in recognition of Gay Pride Month.
As previously reported by this blog much of the name calling was in clear violation of the spirit of inclusion of ‘Gay Pride ” and motivated by small minded political agenda’s. Poor behavior of many residents on this issue show how far we have to go in excepting and respecting our differences and differences of opinion.
While no surprise the corporate media fed by failed special agenda politics continues to misrepresent the Village’s position on the “rainbow flag” and the Villages intent .
They should have voted on a measure establishing a procedure by which outside groups can be approved by the village manager, on a content-neutral basus, to display symbols of their cause like flags or banners. Otherwise, by voting case by case, the village is foolishly affixing its imprimatur to each cause that achieves a majority “yes” vote.
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Is this post a true story? If so it is a foolish action. Classic slippery slope stuff. Politicians can be so weak sometimes when discipline is sorely needed.
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This, by the way, is also Confederate States memorial month. The “pride” flag for this cause is the Confederate battle flag. When is the Village Council vote scheduled to permit or deny flying this flag in Van Neste Square during the month of May?
What are the rules?
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Just ask the council and get accepted/denied?
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Start a FB page to bully the council and THEN ask?
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… Just let me know.
those steelers guys are hounding me…
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Typical hypocrisy of politicians. They are ready to go to any length in order to be politically correct. They look so small and so weak. I know who I am not voting for the next time around, the sad part is that there are no alternatives.
9:20 am: Good idea under a trustworthy village manager. In the recent past we might have celebrated Carpetbaggers’ Week and Developers’ Pride Year.
Village should default to a Steeler flag
Was the vote 5-0? One would think none of our five Councilmembers would ultimately want to leave themselves open to political attack by the six-color crowd, once they figured out they were no longer in the majority. It would be like “Release the Kracken” time, no doubt. Lousy pols.
Welcome to Ridgewood, where minority rules.
Yes, the vote was unanimous, with sighs of relief. Unfortunately, this is unlikely to end here. The larger issue of precedent was ignored. In a way it’s too bad the first request for municipal flag placement was not from an unacceptable source so that the answer could have been an unequivocal NO and become a better precedent. Muddy now.
The rainbow flag [meaning]:
red: light
orange: healing
yellow: sun
green: calmness
blue: art
lilac: the spirit
The six-color flag [meaning]:
Red: Rage and anger when one’s lifestyle is not accepted, lock, stock, and barrel.
Orange: Anti-Catholic bias (all other so-called Christian denominations having already been corrupted).
Yellow: Cowardice when not surrounded by one’s fellow antisocial bullies.
Green: Jealousy directed toward individuals who are capable of making appropriate moral decisions and acting in accordance with natural and divine law.
Blue: Irresistible urge to corrupt society with horrible utterances you consider humerous (CNN Anderson’s “teaba**er” comment, Colbert’s “c***holster” comment, etc.).
Purple: Enthusiastic commitment to personal decadence.
@1:09 your lack of understanding of the LGBTQ community is appalling. You are part of the problem.
Why not a NY Giants or Yankees or
Mets. I would like to see a Festivus tree at Christmas this year. Time to stop with all the bullshit.
1:31 pm. You are the one lacking in understanding. No one likes having someone try to shove their perticular life style done their throats. When you do try there is commonly a backlash.
Tell me would you like me to shove my religion down your throat? I don’t think so.
@1:31 your lack of understanding of the HSUCN community is appalling. You are part of the problem.
I am a pastaferian, I expect my flag to be flown in December. If not ill sue… so there. If you wont listen to me, I will label you a racist and pastaphobe.
But i vote steeler for next month please.
2:29 – I’ve had enough religion shoved down my throat thank you. Also just like being heterosexual is not a lifestyle neither is being gay.
They just opened a can of worms. This will result in a whole bunch of unintended consequences.
There are many like me who do not really care about what people do in their bedrooms. Someone getting gay-married does nothing to my marriage so I couldn’t care less. We work with gay coworkers, have gay friends and really do not give any more thought to someone being gay than we do to someone being straight.
However, I only want the American flag flying on the Village Hall – not a rainbow flag, not a vegan flag, not a muslim flag, not a Black Lives Matter flag, and a Lenape flag and not the Confederate flag.
But it appears that if I as much as mention the same, I am going to be harassed and bullied for being a ‘bigot.’ How I lead my life, how I interact with people, how I do not discriminate at all between someone gay and someone straight in my real life does not matter. I am either screaming out my support for flying the rainbow flag or I am a bigot. I am suddenly no different from the people tossing gays off buildings.
This is nothing by extremism. And it is detrimental to the movement itself. Harassing and publicly bullying people may shut them down but the feelings of resentment will not disappear. This appears to be more of an attempt to ‘plant a flag’ and rub it in everyone’s face, rather than support for tolerance or anything.
It’s marriage, not gay marriage; they’re friends, not gay friends.
its real marriage and gay marriage.
It’s marriage.
A recent decision in Kentucky:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/05/14/kentucky-court-rejects-government-attempt-to-punish-printer-for-refusing-to-print-lexington-gay-pride-festival-t-shirt/?utm_term=.7b9a055be0de
An important quote from the decision:
“…the right of free speech does not guarantee to any person the right to use someone else’s property, even property owned by the government and dedicated to other purposes, as a stage to express ideas. …”
Not that this will carry much weight in progressive Trenton (or progressive Ridgewood), but this is a valid opinion