State Department Blocks Pride, BLM Flags From Embassies, Outposts With ‘One Flag Policy’
Stephen Sorace, Fox News, January 22, 2025
The U.S. State Department has adopted a new policy under the Trump administration that effectively blocks U.S. embassies and outposts from flying Pride and Black Lives Matter flags, a report said Tuesday.
The Washington Free Beacon first reported that it obtained a copy of the “One Flag Policy” order, which permits only the American flag to be flown at U.S. facilities at home and abroad, with two notable exceptions: the Prisoner of War/Missing in Action (POW/MIA) emblem and the Wrongful Detainees Flag.
“Starting immediately, only the United States of America flag is authorized to be flown or displayed at U.S. facilities, both domestic and abroad, and featured in U.S. government content,” the memo states, according to the outlet. “The flag of the United States of America united all Americans under the universal principles of justice, liberty, and democracy. These values, which are the bedrock of our great country, are shared by all American citizens, past and present.”
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Former President Joe Biden caught flak for flying the Pride flag outside the White House during a Pride Month celebration in 2023, and for a leaked State Department memo in 2021 that encouraged U.S. embassies to display Black Lives Matter flags on the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder.
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