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State lawmaker: Michigan shouldn't fly gay pride flags. Whitmer: Try me
More than a month after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ordered multi-colored rainbow flags to fly over the Romney office building in Lansing to commemorate Pride Month, a Republican lawmaker said enough is enough.
State Rep. Lynn Afendoulis, R-Grand Rapids, introduced a bill Thursday that would allow only the Michigan and United States flags to be flown on state office buildings, saying it's inappropriate to promote social policy, even in the form of a flag, on state office buildings.
“We shouldn’t be playing identity politics with the people’s property,” Afendoulis said in a statement. “It isn’t right.”
Whitmer was quick to respond, retweeting a post from a Detroit Free Press reporter with the addition: "My veto pen is ready."
Link to tweet
Read more: https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/26/whitmer-gay-pride-flags-veto-michigan/1837069001/
