Posted on 08/18/2006 7:49:11 AM PDT by Teflonic
MEADE - Someone tossed a brick through a plate glass window early Friday morning at a hotel that is the focus of controversy here because the proprietors hung a rainbow flag out front.
Loren Borger, chief of the Meade Police Department, said no arrests have been made but that police and the Meade County Sheriff's Department are investigating the incident. He suspects a local had a hand in the matter, which occurred sometime between 4:15 and 5:15 in the morning.
J.R. and Robin Knight hung a rainbow flag outside the Lakeway Inn here last month after their 12-year-old son, drawn by its bright colors, sent the banner as a gift from California. The rainbow flag represents gay pride, however, and the move irked some in Meade who are uncomfortable with such a symbol in their midst.
The word "fag" was written on the brick tossed through the window. "Get the -- out of town" was written on a second, which was found on the sidewalk in front of the hotel, according to officials and the Knights.
J.R. Knight expressed dismay. Similarly, officials from the Kansas Equality Coalition, formed to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation, condemned the turn of events.
"These are isolated acts by a few people who don't represent the vast majority of our neighbors and friends," said Anne Mitchell, head of the group's southwest Kansas chapter. "However, this kind of harassment will continue until the good people of the state stand up for their neighbors."
The rainbow flag actually wasn't hanging outside the Lakeway early Friday morning, when officials say the brick was tossed. It had been cut down in the early-morning hours of July 31, and Knight was in the process of fixing the pole so it could accommodate a replacement.
But the hotel proprietor - who has said the decision to fly a flag at the Lakeway should be his and his wife's, not their critics' - finished the repairs and hung a new flag Friday afternoon.
The southwest chapter of the equality coalition is set to have its regular monthly meeting on Sunday at the Lakeway. Though he suspects the meeting itself will be peaceful, Borger said authorities will be attentive to any possible disruptive activity.
Hell, even if you flew the Stars and Stripes in San Fran, it's a hate crime. Worthless marxists.
Some idiot who does not like someone else's right to free speech.............
Why do I think that this place wasn't getting enough attention so JR got up early and tossed a brick?
It isn't like this has not happened before.
The idea of flying a flag to celebrate sodomy is repulsive and gross. Besides, if the homos are going to have a flag, it should be brown rather than a rainbow.
Yep a brown sun flag would be more apt. Perhaps they use a rainbow flag because kids like the pretty colors of it?
Fly the Gadsen flag!
"you deserve a brick today?"
You might well be murdered in cold blood. And nobody would be charged with a crime, except perhaps yourself (posthumously).
If homosexuals are serious about diveristy, they would have a brown and an black stripe in the flag.
hmmm, it must be racism!!!!
(/s)
Seriously, I was thinking general meade and civil war....my bad.
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