Ottawa city hall bans pro-life and ‘religious’ flags, allows LGBT flag
After angry backlash when a pro-life flag was raised for the first time at Ottawa ’s city hall during the March for Life in May, Canada ’s capital is changing its flag-raising policy. The new protocol bans any raising of flags at city hall from organizations whose “undertakings or philosophy” are “politically or religiously motivated or represent other individual conviction.” The consequence is that flags of any pro-life association from flying will be banished from a municipal flagpoles, says Johanne Brownrigg, Ottawa lobbyist with Campaign Life Coalition . “This has been cleverly written to appear to be a serious and practical guidelines. It actually has the effect of writing us out,” she told LifeSiteNews. The flag proclaiming “National March for Life Ottawa” was raised May 11 at the request of Francis Barrett . The 89-year-old father, grandfather, and former police officer told LifeSiteNews at the time he worked with city staff to arrange the event. But after Lif