God's Sign or Gay's?

This is what life is like when Alabama's Legislature is in session.  The Republicans are talking about banning the rainbow from Alabama schools.  I understand if you don't want to click on this link (it's Instagram after all) and listen to this comedy of idiots but...in one clip the hapless Republican is telling a lawmaker who asks, "So you say the gays own the rainbow?", that they don't but we do want to ban it from the schools and then -- in another sound bite -- is lecturing another Alabama lawmaker on his belief that the "Holy Bible" was the first text book.  (I don't have time to argue every inane remark.)

You would think that a God-fearing, Alabama-Republican lawmaker would see the contradiction.

The Holy Bible (King James Version)

Chapter 9
13 -- I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

14 -- And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:

15 --  And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.


He wants to ban God's sign from public schools?  That's what he thinks protecting our children involves?

I wonder if he knows the gay pride rainbow flag is different?  As a matter of fact, I wonder if he even took the 10 minutes I took to find out about the origins of the Rainbow Flag?

I really just want to walk up to him and say, "The gays have outsmarted you again."  But where's the glory in outsmarting a simpleton?

By the way -- just because I love to share irony when I find it -- you can't make this stuff up.

"HB130, sponsored by Rep. Mack Butler, R-Rainbow City, expands on legislation Alabama passed in 2022 and similar to Florida legislation nicknamed “Don’t Say Gay.”" (emphasis added)

Maybe we should leave Rainbow City off of the Alabama maps we use to educate our children about geography.  We wouldn't want them to get any ideas.  Maybe they can be Alabama Republican legislators one day -- if we don't give them any ideas.

Don Brown
May 9, 2024