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I read just now in the Denver Post of a WORLD GEOGRAPHY teacher put on leave for – hold it – displaying flags from around the world in his classroom. This heresy and traitorism which will obviously lead to more burning of American flags [which is the proper way to dispose of threadbare American flags] and turing heterosexual married couples into god-hating gays is actually a statute in the bass ackwards state of Colorado. Colorado Revised Statute 18-11- 205:

Any person who displays any flag other than the flag of the United States of America or the state of Colorado or any of its subdivisions, agencies or institutions upon any state, county, municipal or other public building or adjacent grounds within this state commits a class 1 petty offense.

Good god that landlocked state seems like it's over compensating a bit, eh? But they do have an exception. From the article:

It says an exception to that law is "the display of any flag … that is part of a temporary display of any instructional or historical materials not permanently affixed or attached to any part of the buildings … ."

So, I guess teaching a class on WORLD GEOGRAPHY doesn't classify, in the state of Colorado, as "instructional" those fuckers.

These are the kinds of stories I expect from The Onion, not The Denver Post.

via Lady >> Huffington Post

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