Mississippi Town Rejects Gay Pride Parade: Cities Without Walls Are Easily Taken [View all]

City leaders in Starkville, Mississippi voted 4-3 on Tuesday. Feb. 20 to deny a permit for the city’s first LGBTQ Pride parade.

The four members of the Board of Aldermen who voted against the request from Starkville Pride did not comment on their decision, with three of leaving the meeting through a back door, according to The Dispatch.

More than a dozen people spoke in favor of the LGBTQ Pride parade, planned for March, during a citizen comment period, while only two spoke against it:

Longtime Starkville resident Dorothy Isaac spoke against the request.

“If anything should be held up and down our streets, it should not be this,” Isaac said. “God made Adam and Eve. I’m not saying what you want to be — everybody can be what they want to be. I said he made Adam and Eve.”

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