OKLAHOMA: Gun Group Promotes Event With Rainbow Flag Shooting Target

Via Oklahoma City's NBC affiliate:

Organizers of an Oklahoma race are coming under fire for a picture they posted on their Facebook page. It appears they’re using the LGBT rainbow flag as a shooting target. The post angered many people who took it as a direct threat to the LGBT community. Event organizers say they did not expect the response they got and that it was all meant as a joke. The Oklahoma Run ‘n Gun is a biathlon combining running and shooting. They’re promoting their upcoming race in Pawnee on July 18 on their Facebook page, but some are saying one post went too far. “People got really offended and really upset and people were really feeling threatened,” said Freedom Oklahoma Executive Director Troy Stevenson. The picture shows two men with rifles standing beside a rainbow flag and the caption reads “new high visibility targets on the 500 yard range.” “People took it as a threat, people felt very threatened,” said Stevenson.

Race organizers say the photo was meant to be "funny" and was posted because of complaints that less brightly-colored targets were difficult to see. Uh huh. The group has since taken down the image, saying that they are a "guns and fitness" organization, not a hate group. (Tipped by JMG reader William)

SOUTH CAROLINA: GOP Rep Rants About "Abomination" Rainbow Flag During Debate On Confederate Flag Removal

Via Jezebel:

The debate is airing live on C-SPAN, which is a great time for some states’ rights grandstanding by Republicans looking to win reelection bids. Republicans like State Senator Lee Bright, who is circulating a petition to keep the flag, writing on Facebook, “Right now, we have an opportunity to protect the symbol of our Southern heritage. The Confederate battle flag proudly represents states’ rights, so let’s fight to keep it flying!” Just in case you had any illusions whatsoever about what Senator Bright thinks about his black constituents. Determined to make today a hateful twofer, Bright began his remarks this morning by inveighing against gay marriage and the Supreme Court, for some reason. He referred to the White House being lit up in what he called “abomination colors,” meaning the rainbow flag of LGBT rights. “We can talk about a flag all we want, but the Devil is taking control of this land,” Bright added.

HomoQuotable - Peter Moskowitz

"I’ve earned the right to claim pride through years of internal strife over my sexuality. Others have died in the name of gay pride. More still have been jailed, have been disowned by their families, and have sued their state governments for it. Gay pride is not something you can claim by waving a flag. The rainbow symbol is easy to co-opt, but the experience it represents is not. That’s why it wasn’t comforting to see hundreds of my Facebook friends’ profile pictures draped in rainbows. It didn’t feel like they were understanding my struggle; it felt like they were cheapening it, celebrating a victory they had no part in winning." - Peter Moskowitz, 26, writing for the Washington Post. Comments there are overwhelmingly critical.

Matt Barber Columnist: Burn The Fag Flag

"Don’t ban the Confederate flag, instead they need to ban that blasphemous and demonic homosexual flag, that desecrates and mocks the beautiful image of the rainbow that signifies the covenant that God made with man never to flood the world again. I say keep the Confederate flag and strip every single one of these repulsive, diabolical little flags. Shred them to pieces, burn them, take them down and rip them up. Do whatever is necessary to destroy these idols. All of those in the South, who want to see the Confederate flag remain hoisted and presented, should, in multitudes, burn these horrid sodomite flags, to shake up the government and let them know: we know why you are doing this, you have an agenda, and that is to strip away traditional Southern culture and replace it with the modernist antichrist ideology." - Theodore Shoebat, who includes a video of the "fag flag" being burned in eastern Europe.

RELATED: The above-linked post is from Shoebat's site. He and his father Walid Shoebat are regular contributors to Matt Barber's BarbWire. In April 2015 Theodore Shoebat called for executing all gay people.

ALSO RELATED: Yesterday BarbWire published a column which calls on all Christians to affix black mourning ribbons to their American flags.

Linda Harvey: All Those Rainbow Flags Must Be Removed Because Jesus

"It’s time to lower the rainbow flag everywhere. God created the rainbow as a sign of hope (Genesis 9:12-17). But homosexual political operatives have captured this symbol as an unauthorized expression of 'pride.' Well, rainbows accompanying this depravity are as unfitting as the term 'gay,' and it’s time for Christians to demand recognition of the offense involved and a permanent retraction. Proud homosexuals don’t love God. They take pride in disobedience. Therefore, these rebels have no right to the rainbow, period. So, let’s demand that no more rainbow flags fly above our federal agencies. No more hateful colors on our embassies, or on the Pentagon website. And it’s time for retailers with a conscience to stop selling rainbow- adorned 'gay' merchandise and show respect and sensitivity to the outcry of concerned families and parents. Homosexuality needs to be seen for what it is: a grave sin, a depraved lifestyle, and an oppressive threat to truth, liberty, family and faith. And so, the theft of the rainbow needs to be confronted and it needs to end. No more rainbow flags, America!" - Linda Harvey, defending the Confederate flag for Barbwire.

Ben Carson Refuses To Say If He Equates Confederate Flag And Gay Pride Flag

NEBRASKA: Man Arrested After Stealing And Burning Neighbors' Rainbow Flag

Gay Star News reports:

A 23-year-old man is behind bars after allegedly burning down a rainbow flag in Omaha, Nebraska. Cameron Mayfield, 23, stole a rainbow flag from his neighbors, set it on fire, and ran through the neighborhood, according to police. It comes as Nebraska has lifted the ban on same-sex couples from becoming foster parents last week. Ariann Anderson and Jess Meadows-Anderson, a married couple who live next door, said it went "beyond vandalism or a threat" as it was a "direct attack." "It's just a reminder that hate is still out there," they said. The two women woke up just after midnight on Sunday morning (1 March), believing their home was being burglarized.

(Via Askarbent)

Starbucks HQ Flies Rainbow Flag

Andy Towle writes at Towleroad: "Starbucks raised an enormous 800 square foot LGBT Pride flag over its Seattle headquarters today in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Seattle Pride. Photographer Nate Gowdy was on hand and shared these images with Towleroad of the clock tower and flag, as well as CEO Howard Schultz, who observed the flag raising with employees." Time for more boycotting!

Perkins: Obama Has Turned America Into Sodom With Tel Aviv Rainbow Flag

Maybe we should start freeping the call in number for Perkins' radio show, which airs weekdays at 5PM eastern.

ISRAEL: Rainbow Flag Flies Over US Embassy In Tel Aviv, Haters Scream

From the Facebook page of the US Embassy in Tel Aviv: "Proudly flying the colors! For the first time in history, the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv has raised the Pride flag together with our American flag. We are proud to join with the municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo and its residents in celebrating LGBT Pride Week."

Fox News reporter Todd Starnes is very upset: "So the Obama Administration publicly endorses and affirms the gay rights movement. Meanwhile, American military personnel are being ordered to remove Bibles from their desks and Bible verses from their walls — lest they be accused of publicly endorsing or affirming Christianity. Some might call that a double-standard."

From one of Starnes' fans.

Crackpot Pastor Paul Begley says that flying the flag over an embassy in Israel is totally a final sign of the end times.

RELATED: Hit the embassy's Facebook page and say thanks.

The Rainbow Flag: A Photo History

Rainbow flag creator Gilbert Baker made the below clip from his extensive photo archive. The images are somewhat in reverse chronological order. How many of these moments do you remember?