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GOP Rep Demands VA Hospitals Remove Pride Flags, VA Says Suck It, Flags Are A “Tribute To LGBTQ Veterans”

Via press release from GOP Rep. Matt Rosendale: Today, Congressman Matt Rosendale (MT-02) sent a letter to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Denis R. McDonough, expressing outrage over McDonough’s misguided encouragement of VA medical facilities across the country to display “pride” flags. The letter emphasizes how the flag puts one … The post GOP Rep Demands VA Hospitals Remove Pride Flags, VA Says Suck It, Flags Are A “Tribute To LGBTQ Veterans” appeared first on Joe.My.God..

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GOP Rep Demands VA Hospitals Remove Pride Flags, VA Says Suck It, Flags Are A “Tribute To LGBTQ Veterans”

Via press release from GOP Rep. Matt Rosendale:

Today, Congressman Matt Rosendale (MT-02) sent a letter to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Denis R. McDonough, expressing outrage over McDonough’s misguided encouragement of VA medical facilities across the country to display “pride” flags.
The letter emphasizes how the flag puts one group of veterans above the rest, is a waste of taxpayer dollars, and calls for the prohibition of “pride” flags from being flown at the Montana VA Healthcare System and VA facilities nationwide.
“The VA should be worrying more about providing world-class care to our veterans and less about inundating them with propagandist gay flags,” said Rep. Rosendale.
“This unnecessary distraction does absolutely nothing to ensure our veterans are receiving the healthcare and benefits they have earned. I call on Sec. McDonough and all VA medical centers to halt this discriminatory virtue signaling immediately.”

The Helena Independent Record reports:

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs defended its decision to fly pride flags Tuesday after Rep. Matt Rosendale expressed “outrage” over the VA encouraging its health care providers, include the Montana VA Healthcare System, to fly them in June.
“VA facilities fly the Pride flag – which was created by an Army Veteran – as a tribute to the service and sacrifice of LGBTQ+ Veterans, their families, caregivers, and survivors,” VA press secretary Terrence Hayes said in a Tuesday email.
“Secretary McDonough authorized the flying of the Pride flag at VA facilities for the duration of Pride Month, as he has done in previous years. VA continues to fly the American flag and POW flag in their rightful places at all facilities, and no flags are moved or taken down for the PRIDE flag to be flown.”

Rosendale appeared here in March when he demanded that the VA not provide IVF services to LGBTQ veterans. That same month Rosendale said he would not seek reelection due to threats and “false and defamatory” statements about his family.