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You could make an argument that crosswalks should be painted a standard colour with expected markings, since it's a safety/accessibility issue that that point.
The people who put the package together lumped everything into the same category.
Sure, we should NOT have religious flags on our government buildings. By that token, we should remove any and all religion from those buildings and any texts, too. No mention of God, especially.
Commercial entities? Yeah, they don't belong on government flag poles.
Political? I'd need an example. I would not want to see the flag of various parties on a government building. That's just inappropriate.
But social movements? They stay. I WANT my local, provincial, and federal governments to show support for marginalized groups. That includes our LGBTQ, indigenous, disabled, visible minorities, etc.
I'm proud to see our local fire and police vehicles with rainbow flag stickers on them.
Separate the hate from the reasonable, and this petition might not seem so ass backwards.
You are falling exactly into their snare.
It's a "mostly reasonable" petition that will get "mostly reasonable" people to support it. In fact, it is a direct, deliberate, methodical attack on the LGBTQ2+ community, and aimed at making them feel unsafe.
If we were going to call this reasonable and ban all religious iconography from the government, then we shouldn't be allowed to sing God Save the King or O Canada on government property. ("God keep our land/Glorious and Free" since 1980).
This is absolutely hate-based, make no mistake.
Make no mistake. I understand exactly the game they are playing.
I would NOT sign a petition like this, even if I agree with most of it.
Because I completely understand that the true motive is to remove flags that support marginalised groups in our country.
But you are correct that they idea of including reasonable points, is exactly to attract reasonable people or to legitimise the rest of it.