This has to be the least deserving front-page Washington Post article of 2025. It's so remarkably insignificant. The "big" story on Tuesday from Salisbury, Maryland was headlined "Removal of Pride crosswalks in Md. city sparks a backlash." But the headline inside on A-6 is pure LGBT paranoia: "Rainbow removal undermines LGBT safety, advocates say."  Reporter Joe Heim is all about relaying the LGBT viewpoint, and none other. The villain of this piece is Mayor Randy Taylor, the instigator of removing the rainbow crosswalks, which were painted in 2018. Taylor is the only oppositional voice in the article. He complained at a city council meeting: "You guys piling up on me like you’re superior. I don’t get it. Like I’m this bigot and racist or whatever. I’m sick of it. I’m not that person.” Council member Michele Gregory fired back: “Mr. Mayor, if you don’t want to be called a bigot, don’t do bigoted things.” The Post shares the LGBT view that neutrality is bigotry, since Mayor Taylor’s decision was the city should “ensure that government property remains neutral and does not promote any particular movement or cause.” The rest of the article is just a long thread of gay activists complaining, like this one: Nicole Hollywood, a Shore Pride Alliance board member who works at the nearby University of Maryland at Eastern Shore, said that research shows that pride symbols help LGBTQ people feel less marginalized and reduce feelings of isolation and suicidal behaviors. It’s one of the reasons her group supported the rainbow crosswalks. “The intent has never been to make a political statement or to be divisive, but rather to serve as a potent celebration of diversity,” said Hollywood, who also serves on the Maryland Commission on LGBTQIA+ Affairs. That's remarkably phony. It's obviously a political statement and it's transparently divisive. The "Bible thumpers" of Salisbury aren't quoted in this article, but they know it's divisive and political. "Marginalized communities" get all the press. Heim makes a point of underlining how the Trump administration opposes political crosswalks and Republicans have pushed "Don't Say Gay" laws about school curriculum for youngsters. Then we get the national gay-panic leftists:  Removing flags or displays supporting LGBTQ+ rights “tells people in the LGBTQ+ community specifically that they aren’t safe, they aren’t welcome and they should go back into hiding or disappear altogether,” said Brandon Wolf, press secretary for the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ advocacy group. Wolf said the combined attempts at the federal, state and local level to push back against displaying Pride symbols and signs is having a chilling effect. “LGBTQ+ people across the country are scared,” he said. “They’re afraid of what the future holds.” If Salisbury had painted big Jesus crosswalks, the Left would agitate it as violation of the separation of church and state. But they insist on no separation of the Church of LGBTQIA and state. Everyone must submit to their “inclusion” demands. Does it make much of a difference? No. But they pretend it's the biggest issue ever!