The move comes after Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway, the city's first openly gay mayor, raised a rainbow pride flag over the building that houses city offices - across the street from the Capitol - earlier this week. flag, the state of Wisconsin flag and a flag recognizing prisoners of war typically fly over the state Capitol. The governor has the sole authority to decide what flags fly over the Capitol, said Evers spokeswoman Melissa Baldauff. Evers also authorizes other state government buildings and any jurisdiction of the state to fly the flag in June. The flag was flying above where the governor's office is located in the Capitol. Scott Walker in November, said in an executive order that the rainbow flag has become an important symbol for the LGBTQ community and publicly displaying it "sends a clear an unequivocal message" that in Wisconsin "everyone can live without fear of prosecution, judgment, or discrimination." "Singling out one group that has inordinate political power is wrong and is disrespectful to, at a minimum, those who take exception to the LGBT agenda."Įvers, who defeated conservative Gov. "Would the Governor authorize the Christian flag to be flown over the capitol or a Nazi flag or any number of other flags representing all sorts of Wisconsin citizens and their beliefs?" Appling said in a statement. Julaine Appling, the group's president, said Evers was proclaiming one group over another.