This is very, very strange…
In a week where flags have had a big role in the news, the flag madness has continued, but this time it’s over in Russia.
Vladimir Putin’s United Russia Party have created their own straight flag to counter the famous rainbow flag of the gay pride movement.
Putin unveils 'straight flag' to counter LGBTQI rainbow flag. http://t.co/ST2lzgr5RT (Pic: Instagram dyushakovea) pic.twitter.com/LdBtSsH9cS
— SBS News (@SBSNews) July 9, 2015
The flag depicts two people, a man and a woman, holding hands with three kids and is meant to celebrate a ‘traditional’ family as a counter to the growing LGBT movement across the world.
Homosexuality is not illegal in Russia, but in 2013 President Putin introduced a law which bans symbols promoting ‘non-traditional’ values.
We did like the comeback Euronews made to the unveiling of the flag though, we think it would be a more fitting design…
If you merge Russia´s new ´straight´ flag with a rainbow can it represent everybody? #НастоящаяCемья pic.twitter.com/Ew7YKPFPMy
— euronews (@euronews) July 9, 2015
Hat tip to Independent.co.uk.
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