HB1605 would prohibit the display of any flag other than the United States flag and the official Tennessee state flag in public schools.
The Senate failed to pass HB1605 on April 23, 2024, by a vote of 13 to 6 (simple-majority vote of 17 needed). We have assigned pluses to the ayes because this bill would have rightfully banned the LGBTQ+ “Pride” flag from being displayed in government schools. Flags are age-old symbols of sovereignty, allegiance, and honor. Unlike the “Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands,” the rainbow-colored “Pride” flag represents the “abomination” of a rival global totalitarian movement and invading force that has openly mocked and declared war against the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.” In Marxist fashion, it seeks to stake a territorial claim over all of society through a “long march through the institutions,” specifically by indoctrinating young students into “affirming” homosexuality and other forms of sexual perversion. Nevertheless, Americans have been warned that “Pride goes before destruction,” and “if we ever forget that we are one Nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.” It explains why the U.S. Flag Code has always and only required that the U.S. flag should be displayed “daily” at “every public institution” across the country, including “during school days in or near every schoolhouse.”