Straight Couple Put Italian Rainbow Flag On House - Face Anti-Gay Backlash

[matcom]

:grr:

<snip>

The rainbow has been adopted as a symbol of the gay and lesbian communities, but sometimes a rainbow is just a rainbow.

In a case of mistaken identity, a family reportedly was subjected to middle-of-the-night gay-bashing because of a rainbow-colored flag hanging outside their house.

Lisa Wells, 46, said the flag — with the word "pace" written on it, Italian for "peace" — was a reminder of her family's recent travels in Europe. Such flags hang all over Europe, Wells added.

The flag apparently didn't bring Wells' family peace on this side of the pond, though.

Wells said she woke at about 1:30 a.m. Jan. 30 to find her dog growling, and then yelled at people to get out of her yard, in the 3200 block of Grant Avenue. Four men fled from her property, she said, but one turned and spewed anti-gay rhetoric.

"He threatened me multiple times. He told me I should die. He told me I should read the Bible," Wells wrote in an e-mail.

http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2005/02/15/news/community/tueloc02.txt

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

1. Last time I was in Italy,

it was a sea of rainbow flags with either Peace (Pace) or No to War (no alla guerra) or similar anti-war language.

It wasn't until I got to the U.S. that the rainbow flag acquired another significance. Before then, I had always associated it with anti-war/pro-peace sentiments.

People are so ignorant.

[CO Liberal]

2. Maybe The Guy On The Lawn Should Re-Read His Bible

Especially the part about "judge not - lest ye be judged."

Idiots.

[sui generis]

3. I am pissed!

Why don't they ever do this in my yard? I'da had the four of them hog tied, trussed, and delivered to the poe-lice with each with a fresh spring shave and green tea high colonic and not mussed a single hair on my head.

They only pick on the ones they think they can victimize; that's why they come when nobody's looking, feeling personally "morally" outraged at your immoral existence as they poison your dog, slash your tires, and try to set your house on fire with you inside.

Oh what a world, what a world!

[LDS Jock]

5. if you're gonna tackle and hog tie people

maybe I'll come do it :P

[livinginphotographs]

4. The nerve of some people....

If I see a Bush/Cheney sign, I don't march up to someone's porch in the middle of the night to yell at them.

What the fuck?

[Solon]

6. I FUCKING HATE HOMOPHOBES...

Godsdamned mutherfucking pissant, shit for brains morans!!!! So fucking insecure in their sexuality that they have to have stainless steel butt plugs shoved up their asses and put under lock and key. These assholes are so damned demented that they only way they can perform for anyone is to turn the penis pump on in reverse. Psychopathic fucking hating, bigotted, mutherfuckers. :grr:

[LDS Jock]

7. I wish I could say I was surprised

but I'm not. Some people seem so determined to find someone or something to hate they just look for an excuse to be an asshole.