Residents build giant Pride flag in view of high school after school board bans it

Residents of an Oregon town banded together to make a giant Pride flag after their school board voted to ban it and other “divisive symbols.”

“I wish it could be 10 times bigger,” Erin McCarthy said. She and her husband Jaybill own land on a hill about a mile and a half from Newberg High School where the giant flag was installed so that students could see it.

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Last week, the Newberg School Board voted to ban any “political” speech from their schools, pointing to Pride flags and Black Lives Matter signs as examples of “divisive” messages that, they claimed, make white and straight students feel excluded.

“It has to be for all kids,” said school board chair Dave Brown.

But the McCarthys didn’t like the sound of that.

“‘We’re going to erase a bunch of people,’ is what it felt like to me,” Jaybill told KGW8.

The couple shared their plan to build a giant flag visible from the high school on social media and they got responses from…

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