Missouri county votes to lower flags to ‘mourn’ gay marriage ruling
Flags in Dent county, Missouri, will be lowered to below half-staff for a one-year period of ‘mourning’ for the Supreme Court’s 26 June ruling that legalized gay marriage in all 50 US states.
The county commission on Monday (13 July) voted unanimously to lower the American flags at the county courthouse and judicial building on the 26th of each month from now until June next year.
The commission took up the issue after Presiding Commissioner Darrell Skiles filed a letter into public record protesting ‘the US high court’s stamp of approval of what God speaks of as an abomination.’
He proposed the flags be lowered so ‘all who see these flags at this lowered position be reminded of this despicable Supreme Court travesty.’
A man in Springfield, Missouri, also lowered the flag in his in protest of the court’s decision.
But the Springfield News-Leader reported that the man had violated flag protocol.
A local veteran told the newspaper that flags can only be lowered to half-staff to mourn government leaders or when ordered by the governor or the president, or to honor veterans.
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Darren Wee
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