What Colors Are on Your Flag?
June 13, 2025 | Washington, D.C.
by Anne Schlafly, Chairman, Eagle Forum
June 14 is Flag Day, a celebration of our American flag of stars and stripes, which has been in use since June 14, 1777. Our American flag represents the hope and promise of a nation founded on liberty and opportunity for all. The Stars-and-Stripes is an all-inclusive symbol that does not discriminate based on religion, sex, race, national origin, disability, education, or money.
The month of June has been overrun by flags that seek to divide, not unite, Americans. These colorful flags purposely exclude many people. Called "pride flags", each color attempts to represent a sexual act. Last January, President Trump issued an executive order, "One Flag Policy," which ordered that the United States flag — and only the United States flag — will be flown at U.S. military and government facilities at home and abroad. This order reversed the State Department, which had previously allowed U.S. embassies and diplomatic outposts to fly the Pride flag on the same flagpole as the U.S. flag at their embassy or consulate.
Many Americans are not represented on Pride flags, which are not inclusive, but divisive. The Pride flag is used to promote a progressive agenda that is intolerant of anyone who does not affirmatively support their ideology.
The original rainbow represented a covenant between God and His people after the Flood. The beautiful colors in the sky signal that the storm is over and the sun is shining. As schoolchildren learn, ROYGBIV is the color spectrum when light passes through the prism. This color spectrum does not include pink, purple, magenta, black, brown, or white. Thus, the "pride" flag is NOT a rainbow and should not be described as a rainbow.
Symbols are a shorthand for who we are and what our values are. A wedding ring symbolizes faithfulness in marriage. Our red-white-and-blue flag symbolizes American states forming a more perfect union. The flying of Pride flags is nothing more than an attempt by corporations to signal their virtue and prevent cancellation by the woke mob, even though they are willing to alienate other customers. This divisive flag should never be flown on the same flagpole with the flag of the United States of America that unites us as Americans.
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Anne Schlafly is Chairman of Eagle Forum and has served on the Eagle Forum board of directors since 2008. She is the daughter of Eagle Forum’s founder, Phyllis Schlafly.