More than a month after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ordered multi-colored rainbow flags to fly over the Romney office building in Lansing to commemorate Pride Month, a Republican lawmaker said enough is enough.

State Rep. Lynn Afendoulis, R-Grand Rapids, introduced a bill Thursday that would allow only the Michigan and United States flags to be flown on state office buildings, saying it's inappropriate to promote social policy, even in the form of a flag, on state office buildings.

“We shouldn’t be playing identity politics with the people’s property,” Afendoulis said in a statement. “It isn’t right.”

Whitmer was quick to respond, retweeting a post from a Detroit Free Press reporter with the addition: "My veto pen is ready."

When Whitmer ordered the pride flag flown at the Romney building in mid-June, she said it was a way for the state to commemorate Pride Month and say that members of the LGBT community be treated "with the respect they deserve."

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She also announced the flag order on Twitter, accompanied by a video and photo of the flags. But that tweet prompted more than 100 responses from people angry with the move, with many saying that a small segment of the population shouldn't be singled out for such an honor.

That was the point Afendoulis tried to make with her bill, but the Twitter response was just as quick. By noon on Friday, more than 6,200 people liked Whitmer's veto threat and several hundred people noted that flags honoring such groups as POWs (prisoners of war) and universities often flew on state buildings and would be banned under Afendoulis' legislation.

Many also noted that the legislature left for an extended summer break and had brokered neither a budget deal or plan to fix Michigan's crumbling roads.

Afendoulis is serving her first term in the state House of Representatives and has announced that she is running for the congressional seat held by U.S. Rep. Justin Amash, R-Cascade Township, who has been highly critical of President Donald Trump and announced earlier this month that he was leaving the Republican Party and becoming an independent.

Contact Kathleen Gray: 313-223-4430, kgray99@freepress.com or on Twitter @michpoligal.