{"id":1946459,"date":"2023-06-14T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-american-and-rainbow-flags-stand-for-two-incompatible-definitions-of-liberty-and-only-one-can-rule-us\/"},"modified":"2023-06-14T05:04:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T09:04:48","slug":"the-american-and-rainbow-flags-stand-for-two-incompatible-definitions-of-liberty-and-only-one-can-rule-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-american-and-rainbow-flags-stand-for-two-incompatible-definitions-of-liberty-and-only-one-can-rule-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Two flags, two definitions of liberty, only one can rule us."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-american-and-rainbow-flags-stand-for-two-incompatible-definitions-of-liberty-and-only-one-can-rule-us%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1946459&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The White House Under a New Flag<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For the first time since the British <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historic-uk.com\/HistoryUK\/HistoryofBritain\/The-War-of-1812-the-burning-of-the-White-House\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">raised<\/a> the Union colors over a burning Washington in 1814, the White House sits under a foreign battle flag.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Over the weekend, President Joe Biden relegated the Stars and Stripes to flank another banner, hung in the center of the presidential mansion\u2019s South Portico. The so<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-american-and-rainbow-flags-stand-for-two-incompatible-definitions-of-liberty-and-only-one-can-rule-us\/\" title=\"Two flags, two definitions of liberty, only one can rule us.\">-called \u201cprogress pride\u201d flag demands allegiance<\/a> from its central position at the White House. This new, extra-garish version of the LGBT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/another-eyewitness-account-from-the-stop-the-steal-event-at-the-us-capitol-including-a-memorial-to-ashli-babbit-pictures-video\/\" title=\"Another Eyewitness Account from the Stop the Steal Event at the US Capitol \u2014 Including a Memorial to Ashli Babbit (Pictures, Video)\">rainbow flag<\/a> features pink and blue \u201ctransgender\u201d stripes as well as black and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nickelodeon-taps-drag-queen-to-teach-kids-about-the-pride-flag\/\" title=\"Nickelodeon Taps Drag Queen To Teach Kids About The Pride Flag\">brown stripes<\/a> representing racial identities.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The colorful flag hoisted over the White House represents a militant ideology that is utterly incompatible with the beliefs for which the American flag has traditionally stood.<\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s only room for one flag at the top of a flagpole. Man cannot serve two masters; countries cannot unite under two flags.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Rainbow Alliance as a State Religion<\/h3>\n<p>There\u2019s nothing new about federal bureaucrats pushing their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illinois-dems-repeal-states-last-anti-abortion-law\/\" title=\"Illinois Dems Repeal State\u2019s Last Anti-Abortion Law\">cultural agenda<\/a> on the American people. But the jarring visual from Saturday reminds us that the rainbow alliance is ascendant as our new state religion. It operates as a religion in that its disciples look to it for a telos as well as an identity. It has its own crusaders, its own missionaries, and its own sacred texts.<\/p>\n<p>But unlike most national religions, which exist in compatible tandem with their people\u2019s political constitutions, this one cannibalizes its progenitors.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An Emblem of Self-Indulgence<\/h3>\n<p>The \u201cprogress pride\u201d flag stands for a belief system that categorizes people based on their attributes and membership in protected classes. Those classes aren\u2019t just sexual, either; bizarrely, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-gives-green-light-to-fly-rainbow-flags-at-u-s-embassies-worldwide\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Gives Green Light To Fly Rainbow Flags At U.S. Embassies Worldwide\">flag representing<\/a> various sexual behaviors now includes black and brown stripes for skin colors, highlighting the dissonance of an intersectionality that identifies people by <em>both<\/em> their sexual decisions <em>and <\/em>physical characteristics, and clumsily lumps them together as \u201callies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not only does the alphabet agenda segregate its adherents by the colors of the rainbow, but it also commands them to indulge themselves. The most vulgar actions are celebrated when done in the service of individualist desires and self-expression.<\/p>\n<p>If you believe that all America has ever stood for is libertinism \u2014 an individual\u2019s license to pursue his every desire, unmoored from religious and civic duties \u2014 then this new social ethic is perfectly consistent. It is the natural conclusion of, as Patrick Deneen writes in his book <em>Why Liberalism Failed<\/em>, \u201credefining liberty as the liberation of humans from established authority, emancipation from arbitrary culture and tradition, and the expansion of human power and dominion over nature through advancing scientific discovery and economic prosperity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This modern concept of liberty, Deneen continues, \u201cincreasingly approve[s] nearly any technical means of liberating humans from the biological nature of our own bodies,\u201d which aptly describes the transgender movement\u2019s favorite \u201cremedies\u201d to the natural physical world. And by the leftist understanding of the American Constitution, nothing could be more American than the rainbow flag.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An Emblem of Self-Governance<\/h3>\n<p>However, if you believe that freedom has a more profound purpose and that America has ever stood for anything more than personal gratification, then you feel the discordance between the flag flying front and center at the White House and the flag flanking it.<\/p>\n<p>At its best, America represented an ethic that allowed a man to live free from compulsions that violated his conscience or restricted him from living well; it was for this reason the Puritans fled the Old World for the New. Being freed from the oppression of tyrants, each man and woman might worship freely, work freely, teach their children freely, and ultimately govern themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Governance, of course, necessitates wisdom and discipline. Self-governance, by definition, entails responsibilities. The crucial disconnect between the two flags is that one represents self-indulgence and the other represents self-governance; the two cannot peacefully coexist.<\/p>\n<p>If we hope to preserve \u2014 or rather, regain \u2014 our self-governance, we have no choice but to eschew the new state-enforced ethos of self-indulgence. A man cannot be ruled by both, and neither can a country.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in over 200 years, a foreign battle flag flies over the White House. President Joe Biden placed the Stars and Stripes beside the &#8220;progress pride&#8221; banner on the South Portico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1353,"featured_media":1946460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[8497,7742,7703,6610,9029],"class_list":["post-1946459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-definitions","tag-flags","tag-liberty","tag-rule","tag-us"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1946460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}