Bigotry Rears Its Ugly Head

Bible verse are OK, American flags are OK, ‘Make America Great Again’ is OK, but the Rainbow flag was a big no, no.

He painted a symbol of gay pride. Now this Kansas high school’s tradition is over
Kansas City Star
By Jason Tidd
December 16, 2017

When Marion High School student Logan Waner painted a rainbow flag on his parking space, he didn’t intend to end a six-year senior tradition.

But earlier this week, after nearly three months of controversy, the tradition is over. The school board voted 4-3 Monday to end the practice of seniors painting their parking stalls, the Marion County Record reported.

Waner painted a rainbow flag — a symbol of LGBT pride — on his parking spot at the central Kansas school in September. A day later, Chuck Seifert of Marion showed up at a special school board meeting to complain to superintendent Aaron Homburg.

Then the vigilantes attacked…

Waner kept his spot, but a vandal covered the public property with black latex asphalt sealer the next day.

And as usual the majority of the students saw beyond the bigotry…

A protest of the flag was organized in November, but more counter-protestors showed up than protestors. At the scene, Waner kissed a male friend from Wichita on a sidewalk between the protestors, his parking spot and students watching from school grounds.

U.S. News and World Report had this to say,

The school board for the 500-student Marion-Florence school district voted 4-3 this month to put an end to the homecoming week tradition, which had created challenges in the past. Superintendent Aaron Homburg told The Associated Press that last year one student wasn't allowed to paint a Confederate flag and another was stopped from painting a marijuana leaf.

"It's not about one instance," Homburg said. "There have been issues in the past."

I think that the school board made the right decision in terminating the school tradition once it started to become politicized, I don’t understand why they started it in the first place.