“It's a rainbow flag - to some people it means friendship to some people it means gay pride," says J.R. Knight, owner of a southwestern Kansas B&B. But for Knight, it was just a souvenir from his 12-year-old son. Knight says the local Meade newspaper is trying to put him out of business and was frustrated when it ran an article about the flag and did not even bother to contact him regarding why he put it up. In fact, most people we spoke to in Meade said they didn’t even know what the flag meant until the article ran. But once word got around, the reaction was harsh.
Local resident, Keith Klassen says the flag is a slap in the face to the conservative community of Meade. “To me it's just like running up a Nazi flag in a Jewish neighborhood. I can't walk into that establishment with that flag flying because to me that's saying that I support what the flag stands for and I don't," says Klassen.
KWCH Wichita has the story and video.
Meade, Kansas is southwest of Dodge City, and ironically, not far from the town of Liberal. The irony is the flag was never displayed as a symbol of gay pride but was a souvenir from a Wizard of Oz museum in Wamego, Kansas, west of Kansas City.
Local residents are on the verge of driving the B&B out of business due to their obsessive and irrational hatred. Perhaps they should target the Oz museum which is selling the flags.
How many more fucking backwater towns are out there?
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