“I want to thank President Donald J. Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for making the decision not to fly the gay flag over our embassies during June in recognition of gay pride month. That is the right decision. The only flag that should fly over our embassies is the flag of the United States of America. The gay pride flag is offensive to Christians and millions of people of other faiths, not only in this country but around the world. The U.S. flag represents our nation—everyone—regardless of race, religion, or sexual orientation.” – Franklin Graham, on his Facebook page.

The Washington Post reports:

Since the State Department began rejecting all embassy requests to hoist rainbow flags outside the mission buildings during LGBTQ Pride Month this year, some U.S. diplomats have been finding ways to defy, or at least get around, the new policy. The facades of the U.S. missions in Seoul and Chennai, India, are partially hidden behind large rainbow flags, while the embassy in New Delhi is aglow in rainbow colored lights. The website for the embassy in Santiago, Chile, shows a video of the chief diplomat raising a rainbow flag last month for the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. The Vienna embassy’s website features a photo of a rainbow flag flying below Old Glory on a mast jutting from the building, a statement by Diplomats for Equality and a story about a professor lecturing on the visibility and growth of LGBT rights.

God wiped out humanity for rebellious sin, then put a rainbow in the sky to promise he would not thereafter destroy the world by flood again. Now humanity hoists that symbol in the air on a flag to celebrate what God considers sin. — Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) June 9, 2019

Gluttony is also a sin. I mean, since we’re talking sins. — Don Lemon’s baby Afro (@GhostofGarvey) June 9, 2019

I want to thank @POTUS @realDonaldTrump & @SecPompeo for making the decision not to fly the gay flag over our embassies during June in recognition of LGBTQ pride month. That is the right decision. 1/3 https://t.co/F2AvUaPWKY — Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) June 8, 2019

The U.S. flag represents our nation—everyone—regardless of race, religion, or sexual orientation. 3/3 — Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) June 8, 2019