PA Lt. Gov. Fetterman defies law to mark start of Pride Month

[left-of-center2012]

June is Pride Month and an illegal flag displayed outside of Pennsylvania Capitol on Tuesday marked the occasion. Lt. Gov. John Fetterman chose to mark the beginning of this month celebrating LGBTQ culture and rights by once again, displaying a Pride flag on the balcony of his state Capitol office, despite knowing a law exists prohibiting it. A law passed in 2020 bars the display of any flag other than the American, Pennsylvania or POW/MIA flags on the exterior of the Pennsylvania Capitol.

Fetterman’s flag was confiscated by Department of General Services employees over the lunch hour while staffers were at lunch, said Christina Kauffman, Fetterman’s spokeswoman. She said he has made it clear he intends to replace it with another one.

”The LGBTQIA+ flags that I fly from my office are technically breaking a law,” he said in a statement. “Yet, Pennsylvania law does not explicitly protect the LGBTQIA+ community from discrimination. This must change. We must never stop pushing for equal protection under the law in Pennsylvania and across the country.”

Fetterman, who officiated the first same sex marriage in Allegheny County in 2013 when it was still banned in this state, said the way to get him to stop displaying his flags is for the General Assembly to pass laws ... extending the state’s anti-discrimination protections to the LGBTQIA+ community.

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[TigressDem]

1. Good Trouble crowd has an active member. nt K&R

[Maraya1969]

2. Next time after the flag is up cover the pole with a mixture of Vaseline and activated

charcoal. Whoever takes it down is going to have to wipe everything first and is probably going to get black suet all over them.

It's what I did with my Biden Harris signs and they stayed up in the very red area I am in, (although someone did punch in some of my screens on the lanai)

[AZLD4Candidate]

3. My hero. I'm built like him and think like him

Big John is amazing and I am tailoring my campaign like he did, and AOC did.

[AllaN01Bear]

4. but its ok for the rs to fly a flag of the former guy,t-----?

[FakeNoose]

5. Mighty cool ... Fetterman bows to no one

[mountain grammy]

6. K & R

[padah513]

7. Lose the Lieutenant and

Make that man Governor

[Renew Deal]

8. He's running for Senate

President isn't too far off if he wins.

[padah513]

9. My bad

That's even better.

[IronLionZion]

10. America needs more leaders like Fetterman

good trouble

His first election for mayor of Braddock was won by only one vote. Every vote matters.

[left-of-center2012]

11. How he dressed for his 'official' photo says a lot

[Deep State Witch]

12. Dude is Peak Pittsburgh!

I'm from Pittsburgh originally. I still have friends there, including one who lives in North Braddock and volunteers for his campaign. Big John is Peak Pittsburgher. Although, frankly, I don't want to see what happens when he's elected to the Senate and forced to wear a suit and tie on the Senate floor. (Look up the video of Gov. Wolf helping him pick out a suit and tie.)