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).
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.