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Very rarely does California do something that Missouri would copy, but this is one of those laws that Missouri will absolutely consider copying. Here are the details...

Utah teachers will be free to display LGBTQ+ Pride flags and other social, political or religious imagery after the state House blocked a bill on Monday that would have banned teachers from using their position to promote or disparage certain beliefs. Both Democrats and Republicans criticized the bill’s vague language and warned that it could stymie important lessons in critical thinking. Educators would have been prohibited under the bill from encouraging a student to reconsider their ...

The House passed the measure on a 70-24 vote. The Senate could take up the legislation as early as Thursday.

A bill that would largely ban displaying pride flags in public school classrooms was passed by the GOP-led Tennessee House on Monday after Republicans cut a heated debate short. The motion to cut off debate prompted Democratic Rep. Justin Jones, of Nashville, to yell that House Speaker Cameron Sexton was out of order and ignoring people's requests to speak. Republicans in turn scolded Jones by voting him out of order, halting his immediate comments.

Tennessee’s Republican-controlled House voted Monday to approve legislation that would largely prevent pride flags from being displayed in public school classrooms, sending the measure to the state Senate, where it is also expected to pass. The measure, House Bill 1605, would prohibit local education agencies from displaying flags other than the United States flag and the…

The hearing erupted in laughter and applause.

Rep. Kevin West, whose bill would ban state agencies from flying Pride flags, also penned controversial HB 1775, the so-called critical race theory ban.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday supported a proposal that would restrict what flags can be flown at schools and other public buildings, as critics of the bill — and Senate analysts — questioned prohibiting flags that represent a “political viewpoint.”

A bill introduced in the Oklahoma Legislature on Monday would bar state agencies from celebrating LGBTQ Pride Month or displaying rainbow Pride flags on state property at anytime of year.

Police arrested two suspects for their alleged involvement in a string of LGBTQ Pride flag thefts outside a LGBTQ couple’s Arlington, Virginia, home.