“An Evangelical Christian lifeguard is suing the Los Angeles County Fire Department, claiming religious discrimination after he was allegedly punished for refusing to fly an LGBT pride flag at his beachside lifeguard facility last summer.
Jeffrey Little, who has served Los Angeles County for 22 years, declined to hoist the Progress Pride flag at his lifeguard facility in Pacific Palisades at Will Rogers Beach, which includes a stretch called Ginger Rogers Beach that is frequented by the gay community.”
Christian Post
Little wants his employer to make an “accommodation” for him, because the pride flag at his beachside lifeguard facility offends his tender sensibilities. America is a secular, religiously and ethnically diverse democracy, and it is incumbent upon Little to accommodate himself to diverse political, religious symbols in public places.
Little works as a lifeguard in a gay-friendly beach, I wonder if he would hesitate to save a man who was drowning if he was wearing swimming trunks emblazoned with the Pride flag?
If Little wants to feel safe and comfortable then he should never leave the confines of his evangelical church, where the Christian, American and Israeli flags are proudly displayed. Little can comfort himself with the belief that the rainbow is Jehovah’s promise never to commit genocide again by drowning everyone in the world except for Noah and his family. But in the real world the rainbow-striped Pride flag is a symbol of pride for the LGBTQ community.
Cretins like Little are vastly outnumbered by multitudes of Americans, of all political and religious persuasions, who proudly fly the Pride flag. June is Pride month, and the Pride flag is proudly displayed in cities and towns all over this great country.
