A middle school in a small Minnesota town could face a federal lawsuit after placing an LGBT pride flag in the cafeteria and refusing to hang other flags offered by students.
The controversy over the rainbow-colored flag at Marshall Middle School led to a packed school board meeting last week in Marshall, Minn.
The Thomas More Society is considering a lawsuit.
“At the very least, it’s divisive and insensitive,” said Thomas More Society special counsel Erick Kaardal. “It makes it appear that the school supports one group’s beliefs at the expense of others.”
The flag was hung in the middle school cafeteria this winter alongside a U.S. flag and international flags.
An eighth-grade student told the school board that a teacher removed flags from lockers that represented other viewpoints, including a traditional marriage flag with a father, mother and child, and the Gadsden flag (“Don’t Tread on Me”), the Marshall Independent newspaper reported.
The Thomas More Society is urging the school district to endorse a “viewpoint neutral” policy on flags.
“School buildings are funded by public tax dollars,” Kaardal said. “A viewpoint-neutral policy toward flags and other displays will assure taxpayers that their money does not go to promote symbols of beliefs they may not agree with. If a federal lawsuit is needed to make this happen, we are equipped to…
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