This needs to be the least deserving front-page Washington Submit article of 2025. It is so remarkably insignificant. The “large” story on Tuesday from Salisbury, Maryland was headlined “Elimination of Satisfaction crosswalks in Md. metropolis sparks a backlash.”
However the headline inside on A-6 is pure LGBT paranoia: “Rainbow removing 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 have 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, should you don’t need to be referred to as a bigot, don’t do bigoted issues.”
The Submit shares the LGBT view that neutrality is bigotry, since Mayor Taylor’s determination was town ought to “be certain 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 Japanese Shore, mentioned that analysis reveals that delight symbols assist LGBTQ folks really feel much less marginalized and cut 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 quite 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 some extent of underlining how the Trump administration opposes political crosswalks and Republicans have pushed “Do not Say Homosexual” legal guidelines about college curriculum for children. Then we get the nationwide gay-panic leftists:
Eradicating flags or shows supporting LGBTQ+ rights “tells folks within the LGBTQ+ group particularly that they aren’t protected, 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 degree to push again towards displaying Satisfaction symbols and indicators is having a chilling impact. “LGBTQ+ folks 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 largest concern ever!
