The Des Moines Register reported that Buttigieg was scheduled to visit Iowa Safe Schools’ Pride Camp as a guest counselor in July 2019 one day after his husband Pete and other Democrat presidential hopefuls visited the camp. Libs of Tik Tok tweeted the video and asked, What fresh hell. Chasten Buttigieg substitutes words for the typical pledge of allegiance while holding a rainbow flag over his shoulder. The video shows Buttigieg wearing a shirt that reads “not your typical gay camp,” which is the slogan of Iowa Safe Schools’ Pride Camp. A video going viral on social media reportedly shows Pete Buttigieg’s husband, Chasten, leading kids in an alternative pledge of allegiance to the rainbow flag. The video is reportedly from a Democrat presidential primary campaign stop during Pete Buttigieg’s unsuccessful 2020 candidacy. A video recently went viral on Twitter that reportedly shows Buttigieg leading the gay pride pledge during a clip from Mayor Pete, a 2021 Amazon Prime documentary that highlights Pete Buttigieg’s failed 2020 presidential campaign.
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One camp, full of pride, indivisible, with affirmation and equal rights for all.īuttigieg ended the pledge by waving the rainbow flag across the children’s view. I pledge my heart to the rainbow of the not so typical gay camp, to the gay agenda for which it stands. Watch and pledge along at home ?? #PeteButtigieg #TeamPete #ChastenButtigieg /U8AfUgRfS1- Teen for Chasten??? January 11, 2020īuttigieg had the young children recite the following pledge: KTLA has been unable to verify when exactly the video was posted.Chasten visiting Pride Camp with Iowa Safe Schools and reciting the Pride Camp Pledge. I don’t think she should be disrespecting the flag of our country, and I think that it’s very poor judgment of her to make a video like that, especially three days after 13 of our service members were killed.” “I’d like to share with her, if she doesn’t know, about the importance of respecting the flag,” Vaughn said. Michele Vaughn, a Mission Viejo resident who describes herself as a military mom, was among the people placing American flags. On Tuesday, dozens of miniature American flags and a few gay pride flags were propped up around the school.
But individuals may choose not to participate in the flag salute for personal reasons. The school district’s policy requires that each school conducts daily patriotic exercises, including the pledge of allegiance, with an understanding that the pledge is an expression of patriotism and pride in the U.S. KTLA also visited her apartment building in Long Beach Tuesday night and neighbors said she and her girlfriend had moved out due to death threats. KTLA reached out to Pitzen for comment but had yet to hear back Tuesday afternoon. Pitzen then points to a LBGTQ pride flag hanging in her classroom as she laughs.
Pitzen says she told them she’d find it, but, “In the meantime, I tell this kid, ‘We do have a flag in the class that you can pledge your allegiance to.’ And he like looks around and goes, ‘Oh, that one?’” You don’t have to say the words.” But one student told her, “It’s kind of weird that we just stand and we say it to nothing.” She says she tells her class, “Stand if you feel like it, don’t stand if you feel like it, say the words if you want.
“I packed it away but I don’t know where, and I haven’t found it yet,” she says. In the one-minute video, since deleted from TikTok, Pitzen says she removed the American flag from her classroom during the pandemic because it made her uncomfortable. The district added that Pitzen is not teaching students while officials continue to investigate. “Showing respect for our nation’s flag is an important value that we instill in our students and an expectation of our employees.” “We assure you that we take matters like this seriously,” the district said in a statement. The Newport-Mesa Unified School District said it became aware of the video teacher Kristen Pitzen shared from her classroom at Back Bay High School on Friday and has since launched an investigation. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.Ī Costa Mesa teacher has been removed from the classroom after posting a widely shared TikTok video about taking down the American flag and telling students they could pledge allegiance to a gay pride flag hanging in the room instead. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.