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(Meade, Kansas) Two local boys have admitted
to the theft of a rainbow flag that divided a town and led to a series of
homophobic attacks on a town hotel.
Until this summer sleepy Meade, Kansas was known
only as the home of the Dalton Gang Museum. Now it has the reputation of being a
town where homophobia runs rampant.
It all began when the son of J.R. and Robin Knight
presented them with a colorful flag he'd picked up in California.
He said it reminded him of the
movie "The Wizard of Oz" and the Knights put it up in front of the hotel
they run in town.
For some in the community the rainbow was like putting a red flag in front of
a charging bull.
As controversy over the flag grew it mysteriously
disappeared. The Knights were not about to be cowed, telling the local newspaper
they were not giving in to intolerance and would replace the flag - and keep
doing so for as long flags disappeared.
Then a brick was hurled through the hotel's front
window.
Now a local man has brought his two sons to the
Knight's Lakeway Hotel to confess and apologize for stealing the flag.
"They apologized and said they'd replace it,"
J.R.
Knight tells The Hutchinson News.
But Knight says he still does not
know who smashed the window. The brick had the word "fag"
painted on it. Knight says that the window will cost about $500. Two neon beer signs destroyed in the
attack will cost another $1,000 he estimated.
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