Katie McDonough is Salon's politics writer, focusing on gender, sexuality and reproductive justice. We walk in homecoming with this flag every year and it is not something new.' 'We've used this flag at many other events.
The outrage is new, but the flag itself is not, Rigsby added. 'Desecrating an American flag would entail ripping, or shredding, or burning an actual 13 red and white strip American flag, and that's not what this is,' Rigsby said. The reaction caught them by surprise, MT Lambda president Joshua Rigsby told NewsChannel 5. The student group behind the banner, MT Lambda, Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender student organization, said they received notice that others were complaining about the pride flag to school administrators only days after the group put it on display. They removed red white and blue replaced with the rainbow,' a viewer complained to Nashville's NewsChannel 5. 'This is just un-American and against the law. Because, per said cranky individuals, a flag that features stars and rainbow stripes is downright un-American. Some cranky college students and (also cranky) viewers of local news in Murfreesboro, Tenn., are upset about a campus pride group's rainbow flag.
