{"id":15081,"date":"2025-02-02T02:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T03:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15081"},"modified":"2025-02-02T03:56:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T03:56:36","slug":"bill-would-limit-which-flags-can-fly-at-wisconsin-government-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15081","title":{"rendered":"Bill Would Limit Which Flags Can Fly at Wisconsin Government Buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/bill-would-limit-which-flags-can-fly-at-wisconsin-government-buildings\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/bill-would-limit-which-flags-can-fly-at-wisconsin-government-buildings\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1068\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/MixCollage-01-Feb-2025-09-36-PM-7789.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"brad schimel\" title=\"brad schimel\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 A new Wisconsin bill would limit government-sponsored divisions from flying certain flags.<\/p>\n<p>The bill prevents flags other than the U.S. flag, Wisconsin flag, local flags and U.S. armed forces and POW\/MIA flags from being flown or hung outside any state or local institution.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was introduced by a group of Republicans including Rep. Jerry L. O\u2019Connor, R-Fond du Lac, Dave Murphy, R- Greenville, Rob Brooks, R-Saukville, Joy Goeben, R-Hobart and State Sens. Dan Feyen, R-Fond du Lac, and Cory Tomczyk, R-Mosinee.<\/p>\n<p>The bill points to particular flags that have led to divisiveness including those of political movements or social causes, such as MAGA, pride, heterosexual, CSA, Second Amendment rights, BLM, ALL Lives Matter, Antifa, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice and others.<\/p>\n<p>The bill doesn\u2019t prohibit any private citizens or Native American tribes from flying any flags.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernment should not be in the business of choosing sides, or even giving the appearance of choosing sides,\u201d said Feyen. \u201cThis bill simply ensures that the first impression of all government buildings and institutions is neutral, offering equal treatment to all Wisconsinites.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers said that they were asked to act on the divisiveness by Wisconsin residents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlags on government buildings are not supposed to be divisive and should not support one ideology over another,\u201d said Sen. Tomczyk, \u201cWhen the governor uses flags flown over the State Capitol and other taxpayer-funded buildings to divide the people of Wisconsin, it is shameful and frankly, embarrassing. It is time to end this nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/bill-would-limit-which-flags-can-fly-at-wisconsin-government-buildings\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 A new Wisconsin bill would&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":15083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15084,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15081\/revisions\/15084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}