INDIANAPOLIS, IN – The righ t

wing Indiana Family Institute were upset when they found out that, for the first time, the Indiana police force will march in the city’s gay pride parade.

According to television station WXIN FOX-59, Ryan McCann of The Indiana Family Institute warned:

“The majority of Hoosiers and probably the majority of folks in Indianapolis if they actually went to the gay pride parade and see the activities that goes on there would be shocked to see our taxpayer dollars going to have our men and women in uniform through the police and fire department march in that kind of a parade.”

IMPD spokesperson Linda Jackson says the department doesn’t think having officers march in the parade is controversial. “I don’t think it’s an issue of the politics or an issue of anything like that. This is a parade that we would participate in.”