In June 2014, a U.S. flag is raised alongside a pride flag at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv. “I’m aware that the State Department indicated that on the flagpole of our American embassies that one flag should fly, and that’s the American flag, and I support that,” Pence said. The Obama administration’s Pride Month guidelines included rules for flying rainbow flags from poles outside embassies — they had to be smaller than the American flag and fly beneath it. Embassies in countries including Israel, Germany, Brazil and Latvia this year asked to fly rainbow flags. “I think it’s the right decision, and we put no restrictions on displaying any other flags or any other displays at our embassies beyond that.”

Source: Washington Post June 11, 2019 01:07 UTC