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A Michigan town council recently passed a law allowing the display of only official flags on public buildings and banning any others. The local LGBTQ+ community took this as a personal affront, and two members of the Hamtramck Human Relations Commission decided to test the council’s resolve.<\/p>\n
PAUL BOIS<\/strong><\/p>\n The all-Muslim city council in Hamtramck, Michigan, has fired two human relations commissioners after they flew the LGBTQ pride flag on public property in violation of a recent law banning such flags.<\/p>\n As Breitbart News reported in June, the all-Muslim city council \u201cvoted unanimously on Tuesday to approve a resolution that would ban the LGBTQ+ Pride flag from being flown on the city\u2019s public property.\u201d The report said:<\/p>\n The resolution, proposed by Mayor Pro-Tem Muhammad Hassan, also bars any religious, ethnic, racial, political, or sexual orientation group flags from being flown on city property and only allows the American flag to be flown, along with state and city flags, other national flags, and the Prisoner of War flag.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The law did not specifically single out LGBTQ community members, with Hasan and the city council even saying that such people are wholly welcome in the city of Hamtramck, which had primarily been run by Polish Catholics until recent years.<\/p>\n Less than a month after initiating the ban, Russ Gordon and Cathy Stackpoole were removed from the Hamtramck Human Relations Commission after they flew the LGBTQ pride flag over a public sidewalk for several hours.
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\nThe city council voted to remove Gordon and Stackpoole by a unanimous vote on Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n