As a retired Air Force member (20+year), a father, and a lifelong advocate for unity over division, I find myself deeply concerned. No, let’s call it what it is. I am outraged by Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke and Gov. Josh Green’s decision to fly the transgender and LGBTQIA+ flags over the Hawaii State Capitol for the entire month of June.

Let’s be clear: I don’t hate anyone. I have worked with, lived alongside, and served this country beside people of every race, faith, and sexual orientation. But there’s a massive difference between respecting individual liberty and turning government institutions into billboards for social movements that promote confusion, sexual identity over civic identity, and radical agendas over rational unity.

The American flag and the Hawaii state flag already represent every citizen—gay, straight, trans, religious, secular, and everything in between. When our government raises any other flag above our Capitol, it’s no longer about inclusion. It becomes promotion. And when the symbol being promoted is tied to ideologies that blur lines between gender reality and mental health confusion, ideologies that have sparked heated school board debates, lawsuits, and fractured communities, we must ask: who exactly is being served?

Flying identity-specific flags sends a clear message: some groups are more celebrated than others. What month is set aside for veterans who died by suicide after serving? For single moms working two jobs? For native Hawaiians priced out of their own homeland? Why don’t their flags fly above the Capitol?

Governor Green’s job is to serve all people of Hawaii, not to posture for political applause from activist factions that already dominate our media, corporations, and schools. Public buildings should be sacred ground for shared values, not staging grounds for ideological virtue signaling.

June could be a month to promote mental health awareness, or fatherhood, or respect for differing views. Instead, our leaders have chosen division dressed up as inclusion. And many of us are no longer buying it.

Let’s raise the flag of Hawaii. Let’s raise the American flag. Let’s fly the banners that unite, not the ones that demand allegiance to movements many Hawaiians never consented to endorse.

Enough is enough.