TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Officials in Traverse City, Mich., on Jan. 2 reversed a decision to allow rainbow-colored stickers symbolizing homosexual advocacy on city vehicles after protests by family groups around the country, CNSNews.com reported.
The city attorney said by posting a bumper sticker on a public vehicle featuring the flag of a particular organization or movement, the city was opening itself up to demands by other groups to allow their symbols to be displayed on city vehicles.
The city manager accepted the attorney’s recommendation and ordered the stickers be removed, CNSNews.com reported, while the mayor told reporters he had been conned by those who advocated the sticker.
The saga began Dec. 19 when the city announced that rainbow-colored stickers would be placed on all city-owned vehicles, including police cars. City officials spent $2,500 to print 10,000 stickers, which they distributed without charge and urged citizens to display.
Officer David Leach, a patrolman and evidence technician who joined the Traverse City Police Department in 1971, became the first city employee to publicly protest the order.
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