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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWoman’s ‘Relentlessly Gay’ Front Yard Prompts Angry Neighbor Letter
Your yard is becoming Relentlessly Gay! the letter read. Myself and Others in the neighborhood ask that you Tone It Down. This is a Christian area and there are Children. Keep it up and I will be Forced to call the Police on You. Your kind need to have Respect for GOD.
The horrific offense that prompted this note?
A line of rainbow-colored mason jars holding the words LOVE and OHANA.
http://cwsanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/06/17/womans-relentlessly-gay-front-yard-prompts-angry-neighbor-letter/
So, I am starting this fundraiser so I can work to make my Home even More "relentlessly gay" If we go high enough, I will see if I can get a Rainbow Roof!
Because my invisible relentlessly gay rainbow dragon should live up there in style!
Put simply, I am a widow and the mother of four children, my youngest in high school and I WILL NOT Relent to Hatred. Instead, I will battle it with whimsy and beauty and laughter and love, wrapped around my home, yard and family!!!
http://www.gofundme.com/x6dkw9h
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)I was expecting at the very least some of those painted wooden silhouettes, maybe one of the bent over ones with another standing right behind it...
JanMichael
(24,890 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)If I saw that, I would just think it was colorful.
0rganism
(23,956 posts)...because my mind pictured many things and none of them had any resemblance at all to a row of colorful mason jars.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Think of the children!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)And the comments are cute.
cstanleytech
(26,293 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Interesting how people are responding...quite heartening, actually.
cstanleytech
(26,293 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
cstanleytech
(26,293 posts)Sleep well.
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)I like it.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)That would look really cute on my deck. I shall have to look for some of those jars.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Maedhros
(10,007 posts)Hekate
(90,714 posts)....maybe some people just want to light up the world with rainbow lights?
Maybe the neighbor just needs to get a life.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Hekate
(90,714 posts)Moostache
(9,895 posts)Then tape it to the side of the house or the garage.
Fundie freaks need to be slapped back in line with the Constitution and the intent of the world's first secular nation.
rurallib
(62,421 posts)a realistic dummy on cross like thing in her yard.
Put a real tortured face on the dummy.
Let the little kids get a real view of Christian iconography
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)a self identified Christian. A great deal of his work focuses on religious themes in ways that religious people more easily identify with than the themes at work in the 'Bodily Fluids' series of photographs.
At this link, you can see many different series by the artist. Try 'The Church' and 'Holy Works' and for today's context 'The Klan'.
http://www.artnet.com/usernet/awc/awc_thumbnail.asp?aid=424202827&gid=424202827&works_of_art=1&cid=262076
Moostache
(9,895 posts)These are not exactly deep thinkers or culturally curious people that would be making threats against a neighbor in the first place. My suggestion was only to hit them with shock value, not educate them on the finer points of socially critical works of art or artists...but thank you for the information, I learned some things about it I did not know!
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)sakabatou
(42,152 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)raining men
romanic
(2,841 posts)Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)Did this moron just move there?
Part of me wants this to be a hoax.
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)If she can personally see it and lacks the ability to understand it..........attack on her religion.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)Hepburn
(21,054 posts)I love that pic!
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)rpannier
(24,329 posts)Merciful heavens! What will happen next?
Butterbean
(1,014 posts)*hair on fire smiley*
christx30
(6,241 posts)with them is "pushing the gay down their throats" and "relentlessly gay."
I'd see about something for your steps too. Maybe some rainbow banners. Very festive.
tishaLA
(14,176 posts)....that place would have made her shit her pants.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)Other possibilities?
Indomitably Gay
Insurmountably gay
Indubitably Gay
Constructively Gay
Instructively Gay
Conservatively Gay
Reflectively Gay
Effectively Gay
Liberally gay
Culturally Gay
and finally
Acceptably Gay
As far as a rainbow roof; You can get steel shingles enameled in a wide variety of colors guaranteed for 50 years.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)yeah I have no idea what that means. That letter is just weird.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Algernon Moncrieff
(5,790 posts)(The "Greek Yard" is a reference to "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"
And, in any event -- you call code enforcement, not the cops.
spanone
(135,844 posts)jmowreader
(50,559 posts)Much less "relentlessly" gay?
Seeing as how there only seems to be one rainbow-y thing in her yard, maybe it's only a little bit gay?
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)I'd hate to hear her neighbours' opinion of my garden - or worse: my living room decorations.
Rob H.
(5,351 posts)I'd love to see something that cheerful every day.
Sparhawk60
(359 posts)It is relentlessly Gay. I was turned gay just looking at it.
jk
Actually, I love it, it really doesn't say "gay" to me, just pretty. And I doubt if any children were harmed by looking at it.
Hepburn
(21,054 posts)...stupid message from an idiot.
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]"The whole world is a circus if you know how to look at it."
Tony Randall, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)[/center][/font][hr]
Blue_Adept
(6,399 posts)Kudos!
MyOwnPeace
(16,927 posts)Must have missed the Sunday school lesson:
Mark 12:31 "Love thy neighbor as yourself."
progressoid
(49,991 posts)She's raised nearly $17K!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)One of the newest comments on the gofundme page.
Loving this response across the country for gay rights.
progressoid
(49,991 posts)LOVE IT!
bunnies
(15,859 posts)Please stop making the sky so relentlessly gay after it rains. You're offending the children.
Snow Leopard
(348 posts)were relentlessly gay! Their yard sucks compared to this one.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Tom_Foolery
(4,691 posts)RKP5637
(67,111 posts)logosoco
(3,208 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)including one from Scotland.
She obviously touched a nerve, and I am thrilled to see such massive support for her story.
edited to add....the story has gone viral as of yesterday,including Britain paper.