This needs to be the least deserving front-page Washington Put up article of 2025. It is so remarkably insignificant. The “large” story on Tuesday from Salisbury, Maryland was headlined “Removing of Satisfaction crosswalks in Md. metropolis sparks a backlash.”
However the headline inside on A-6 is pure LGBT paranoia: “Rainbow elimination undermines LGBT security, advocates say.”
Reporter Joe Heim is all about relaying the LGBT viewpoint, and none different. The villain of this piece is Mayor Randy Taylor, the instigator of eradicating the rainbow crosswalks, which had been painted in 2018.
Taylor is the one oppositional voice within the article. He complained at a metropolis council assembly: “You guys piling up on me such as you’re superior. I don’t get it. Like I’m this bigot and racist or no matter. I’m sick of it. I’m not that particular person.”
Council member Michele Gregory fired again: “Mr. Mayor, in case you don’t need to be referred to as a bigot, don’t do bigoted issues.”
The Put up shares the LGBT view that neutrality is bigotry, since Mayor Taylor’s choice was town ought to “be sure that authorities property stays impartial and doesn’t promote any specific motion or trigger.”
The remainder of the article is only a lengthy thread of homosexual activists complaining, like this one:
Nicole Hollywood, a Shore Satisfaction Alliance board member who works on the close by College of Maryland at Jap Shore, mentioned that analysis exhibits that delight symbols assist LGBTQ individuals really feel much less marginalized and scale back emotions of isolation and suicidal behaviors. It’s one of many causes her group supported the rainbow crosswalks.
“The intent has by no means been to make a political assertion or to be divisive, however relatively to function a potent celebration of variety,” mentioned Hollywood, who additionally serves on the Maryland Fee on LGBTQIA+ Affairs.
That is remarkably phony. It is clearly a political assertion and it is transparently divisive. The “Bible thumpers” of Salisbury aren’t quoted on this article, however they know it is divisive and political. “Marginalized communities” get all of the press.
Heim makes a degree of underlining how the Trump administration opposes political crosswalks and Republicans have pushed “Do not Say Homosexual” legal guidelines about faculty curriculum for children. Then we get the nationwide gay-panic leftists:
Eradicating flags or shows supporting LGBTQ+ rights “tells individuals within the LGBTQ+ group particularly that they aren’t secure, they aren’t welcome and they need to return into hiding or disappear altogether,” mentioned Brandon Wolf, press secretary for the Human Rights Marketing campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ advocacy group.
Wolf mentioned the mixed makes an attempt on the federal, state and native stage to push again in opposition to displaying Satisfaction symbols and indicators is having a chilling impact. “LGBTQ+ individuals throughout the nation are scared,” he mentioned. “They’re afraid of what the longer term holds.”
If Salisbury had painted large Jesus crosswalks, the Left would agitate it as violation of the separation of church and state. However they insist on no separation of the Church of LGBTQIA and state. Everybody should undergo their “inclusion” calls for. Does it make a lot of a distinction? No. However they faux it is the most important difficulty ever!
