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Kearns High football coach promises ‘consequences’ for players who posted video of a gay pride flag being burned

There will be consequences for Kearns High football players who posted a video of someone setting an LGBTQ pride flag on fire, their coach promised.

As the flag burns in the video, which was posted last week on Snapchat, someone can be heard laughing and another person can be heard saying, “All gays die.”

“We have one rule in our program, and that is not to embarrass yourself, your family or your team," Coach Matt Rickards told FOX 13. “That rule was broken. There’s got to be consequences for that.”

The coach said he is “more embarrassed and humiliated by this than I've ever been.