FIRST IN DAILY SIGNAL: Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts of Nebraska is looking on President Joe Biden and his federal companies to point out inclusivity towards pro-life Individuals by flying pro-life flags throughout October, which is Respect Life Month.
The Nebraska senator despatched 20 letters to Biden administration companies with this request, first obtained by The Day by day Sign. The White Home and the companies are most unlikely to fly flags honoring the unborn, however since Biden heads probably the most pro-abortion administration in United States historical past, the transfer highlights the one-sidedness of the administration’s much-criticized choice to fly the Satisfaction flag on federal buildings, together with the White Home, all through the month of June.
“Many Individuals felt the White Home’s Satisfaction celebration earlier this month and the flying of the Satisfaction flag on the White Home was a press release that you simply and your administration solely rejoice some Individuals,” he famous.
“I sincerely hope that isn’t the case. By additionally honoring Respect Life Month later this 12 months and flying the pro-life flag, you’ll ship a strong assertion that our nation celebrates Individuals of all beliefs and is dedicated to defending harmless and susceptible life.”
The Pro-Life Flag Project has designed a “unifying banner for the pro-life motion” to attract consideration to the innocence and vulnerability of an unborn youngster within the womb, Ricketts identified in his letters. The flag options two footprints to point out the unborn child’s humanity, with fingers above and beneath the footprints to represent the mom’s love and safety for her child.
Ricketts, who previously served as governor of Nebraska, reminded Biden that he had recognized the flag because the “pro-life flag for Nebraska” throughout his time as governor.
“Flying the pro-life flag on the White Home throughout Respect Life Month would present the federal authorities stands alongside its residents in upholding the unalienable fact that each one folks, together with the unborn, have a proper to life,” he emphasised, concluding: “I pray you obtain knowledge and steerage as you lead our nice nation.”
In a press release to The Day by day Sign, Ricketts mentioned that many Individuals took Biden’s choice to fly the Satisfaction flag on the White Home as an indication that the administration solely celebrates a sure class of Individuals.
“By flying the pro-life flag throughout Respect Life Month, President Biden would ship a much-needed sign that our nation respects the dignity of each American, together with the unborn,” he added. “I’m dedicated to creating this a actuality and might be urging my colleagues to affix this effort as we strategy October.”
When the White Home flew a Satisfaction flag in June, Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton advised that the Biden administration did so in violation of the U.S. Flag Code.
“To advance revolutionary transgender agenda focusing on kids, Biden violates fundamental tenet of U.S. Flag Code and disrespects each American service member buried underneath its colours,” Fitton mentioned on the time, earlier than citing the code: “U.S. Flag Code §7. (e) The flag of the USA of America needs to be on the heart and on the highest level of the group when quite a few flags of states or localities or pennants of societies are grouped and displayed from staffs.”
Legacy media like Reuters inconclusively suggested that the White Home transfer didn’t violate the Flag Code, noting that the code “doesn’t embrace specific language on enforcement mechanisms and is taken into account voluntary” and that “vexillologists [flag experts] supplied completely different views on whether or not the White Home show was a violation of the Flag Code.”
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