“This is one way that I can show my disagreement,” said Heintzen. There are roughly a half-dozen pride flags hanging on the block, and more are on the way, reports WJLA. #Pride flags sending message to outside temporary #DC home.
Neighbors started hanging the pride flags after the VP-Elect moved in because the LGBTQ community has criticized Pence’s policies regarding LGBTQ rights. Pence moved into a house on Heintzen’s block where he will stay on-and-off until he moves into the Vice-President’s mansion on the grounds of the Naval Observatory next year. The ‘he’ Heintzen is referring to is Vice-President Elect Mike Pence. Maybe it'll inspire Americans like Pence to one day embrace the same ideas.“A respectful message showing, in my case, my disagreement with some of his thinking,” said Ilse Heintzen. Good on the people of Iceland to proudly display their belief in freedom and equality. When Pence met with Jóhannesson, the president was wearing a rainbow bracelet, just like he wore when he met with another massive homophobe, Vladirmir Putin of Russia. XemgBk7TjU - Heklina SeptemSo America's bigot Mike Pence has arrived here in my country, and what does Iceland do? Welcomes him with Pride flags ?? /OJZjp0aE1s - ★natasja★ September 4, 2019 All Pence will see everywhere on his visit is gay gay gay. Mayor of Reykjavik, all the biggest firms and companies, everyone, they're all flying the gay flag. So at his stop at Höfði (house where Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Reykjavík occurred), was met by this not-so-subtle display and then the mayor said he grieved the loss of the INF treaty that emerged from the summit but was recently withdrawn from by the trump administration /89P8nQmupc - Justin Sink SeptemHere's a great example of why I'm proud to be from Iceland ??Mike Pence is visiting the country and everyone is outraged.
"We just felt the need to celebrate diversity today and wanted to show that by flying the flags," Ægir Már Þórisson, the company's director, said according to The Guardian. Within the building, the flags of the United States and the Soviet Union are cross-hung to commemorate the meeting.Īn office park opposite the historic building also decided to fly rainbow flags for the occasion as well. Reagan and Gorbachev at the Höfði House via White House Official Photo / Wikimedia Commons RELATED: His remarks got under Mike Pence's skin. That effectively was a step to the end of the Cold War. The Höfði House is best known as the location of the 1986 Reykjavík Summit meeting of presidents Ronald Reagan of the United States and Mikhail Gorbachev of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. When Pence arrived in Iceland, he was greeted by a barrage of LGBTQ pride flags being flown at the Höfði House where he met with Iceland's president, Guðni Jóhannesson. If it did, Mike Pence would probably try to have it repealed. still doesn't have any such law on the federal books. Over 20 years ago, Iceland made it illegal to refuse people, goods, or services on account of their sexual orientation, or to attack a person or group of people publicly with mockery, defamation, abuse, or threats because of their sexual orientation. Clearly, Mike Pence would not be a member of this church. It allows any two people to marry regardless of sex or gender and the Church of Iceland also allows same-sex marriage in its churches. Iceland is one of the most pro-LGBTQ countries in the world. On Wednesday, Pence became the first American Vice President to visit Iceland, a country of just 350,000 people, since George H.W. He obviously missed the part of the Bible that says "love thy neighbor." RELATED: Mayor Pete brilliantly points out the hypocrisy of Mike Pence's homophobia in viral speech.