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to be offensive to patriotic people either; to be offended by it smells of homophobia; it still retains the symbol of the flag which citizens ought to be proud of, and the idea that it is "defaced" by rainbow colors seems inseparable from the idea that there is something wrong with gay pride or gay rights—Anchoress makes a good point that nobody is offended by wrapping soldiers or hockey players with the flag. If there was, for instance, a template for
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taking up the top-right-hand corner which is why it was left-aligned. But the end result is that we have all these articles on "Same sex marriage in "X": province" and the first thing you see is a big picture of the provincial flag in the top left corner of the article. It has nothing to do with same sex marriage—the main theme of these articles, it adds no content to the article, it could as easily be about "The cheeses of New
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Canadian gay rights template, to make it a little more specific and interesting. Incidentally I did not see here that someone had previously stuck the regular rainbow flag in the template.
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Northwest Territory flags. By the way I did not mean to revert Ardenn's change, I was working centrally from the old NWT flag link and didn't realize it was the second time I had deleted it; if I had
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As to the idea that it is offensive... that certainly was the opposite of my intention. I imagine anti-gay people are offended by the gay rights movement in general and in Canada in particular, I don't know why they need to be appeased in the
Canadian Gay Rights template. I don't see why it ought
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Canadian flag was jarring (and too big; I reduced its size). The regular rainbow flag is much much more common in Canada and I don't see that any image of that sort is needed; I don't feel that it adds anything, and no
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I simply composed the Rainbow flag and Canada flag images from Knowledge Commons with Gimp to make this image. There are two concerns, one that it clashes, and one that it might be offensive. As to the first, I don't think the colors clash any more than the regular pride/rainbow flag (I have
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