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Republican members of Congress have signed on as co-sponsors of the “Only Old Glory Act," which would ban rainbow flags at U.S. embassies.

The bill would also prevent embassies from displaying Black Lives Matter banners.

Twenty GOP reps - including Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Matt Gaetz (R-FL), and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) - have signed on as co-sponsors of the proposed law, introduced by Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC).

Duncan said that “no other flag or symbol can portray our American values” better than the American flag.

The bill - previously introduced in 2018 and again in 2019 - comes in response to embassies that flew the LGBTQ+ Pride Flag and Black Lives Matter banner in recent years.

On June 1, the start of Pride Month, the U.S. embassy in the Vatican hoisted the flag to the chagrin of some Americans, specifically Catholics. Newsweek editor Josh Hammer called the move a “deliberate, provocative insult to traditional Catholicism."

However, Joe Biden, the second Catholic president in U.S. history, released a statement celebrating the month:

“Pride is both a jubilant communal celebration of visibility and a personal celebration of self-worth and dignity."

Do you support or oppose banning the Rainbow Flag at embassies?

Where Do You Think COVID Originated?

A poll conducted by The Economist / YouGov from May 2nd through June 1st that was released this week found that an outright majority of Americans now believe that coronavirus (COVID-19) originated in a Chinese laboratory, an increase from the large plurality who believed that to be the case in May 2020.

The poll asked respondents whether it’s true or false that a lab in China was the origin of COVID-19, regardless of whether it was created by scientists or naturally mutated.

Among U.S. adults, 58% said that it was “definitely or probably true” that COVID-19 came from a lab in China, while 18% said “definitely or probably false” and 24% said they don’t know. 

That’s an increase from May of last year when 49% of American adults thought COVID-19 probably or definitely originated in a lab, 29% thought it probably or definitely did not, and 22% were unsure.

Do you believe that the spread of COVID-19 originated from a lab in China?

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And, In The End...

Turn on your Hot Light, Krispy Kremers, it's National Doughnut Day.

Yes, the first doughnuts in America were, actually, "nuts" of dough brought to New England by the Pilgrims,

—Josh Herman

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