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muriel_volestrangler

(101,316 posts)
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 06:58 PM Jun 2015

Woman’s ‘Relentlessly Gay’ Front Yard Prompts Angry Neighbor Letter

A woman in Baltimore recently found herself in the middle of a pretty bizarre crossfire when she reportedly received a note from some of her neighbors (or, probably just one who is bluffing), stating that her yard is too flamboyant for the innocent eyes of children.

“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/

Needless to say... I need more rainbows... Many, many more rainbows….

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

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Woman’s ‘Relentlessly Gay’ Front Yard Prompts Angry Neighbor Letter (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Jun 2015 OP
That's relentlessly gay? Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jun 2015 #1
me too. assholes will be assholes. they will pick at everything.nt JanMichael Jun 2015 #3
Yeah, full frontal would be relentlessly gay... joeybee12 Jun 2015 #7
clearly i have no idea what "relentlessly gay" means... 0rganism Jun 2015 #8
Maybe a better idea is for those who decorate with da Jebus to tone it down Major Nikon Jun 2015 #2
LOl..she has raised almost 6 grand. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2015 #4
9400ish now. nt cstanleytech Jun 2015 #13
Now pushing 15,000 K! dixiegrrrrl Jun 2015 #27
Umm I think you added the goal amount to that, its at a little over 10k raised atm. nt cstanleytech Jun 2015 #30
Way past my bedtime, I do believe....... dixiegrrrrl Jun 2015 #34
You and me both LOL. cstanleytech Jun 2015 #35
They're pretty. Adsos Letter Jun 2015 #5
I like it, too. Cracklin Charlie Jun 2015 #23
"Relentlessly" is the new "flamboyantly". KamaAina Jun 2015 #6
"Relentlessly Gay" would make a great name for a pro-LGBT blog...[n/t] Maedhros Jun 2015 #9
What the hell? Maybe the rainbow spectrum represents chakras, did they think of that? Or... Hekate Jun 2015 #10
Chakras are just as bad - unchristian and pagan and all that stuff. LiberalElite Jun 2015 #11
You just cannot be too careful Hekate Jun 2015 #12
Get a huge poster of the "Piss Christ" exhibit... Moostache Jun 2015 #14
I was going to suggest she hang rurallib Jun 2015 #24
Just by way of art histroy fact 'Piss Christ' is a work by Andres Serrano, who is both straight and Bluenorthwest Jun 2015 #53
My only interest in mentioning that work was the shock value it holds on fundies... Moostache Jun 2015 #55
Don't these idiots know the cops are there to keep black people out of pools? Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2015 #15
Let me play my Planck-length size violin for the neighbor sakabatou Jun 2015 #16
didn't God produce a rainbow once as a sign? you know what that means! MisterP Jun 2015 #17
Just after it stopped awoke_in_2003 Jun 2015 #29
Hallelujah!!! romanic Jun 2015 #40
"This is a Christian area." IT'S BALTIMORE, DUMBASS. Hissyspit Jun 2015 #18
The letter writer meant "anywhere I might see things I have been told not to like". Half-Century Man Jun 2015 #26
Someone doesn't belong in a city that has a neighborhood that looks like this: Glimmer of Hope Jun 2015 #41
Wow!!!! Hepburn Jun 2015 #43
Seriously. Hissyspit Jun 2015 #59
I am clutching my pearls in one hand and fanning myself with the other rpannier Jun 2015 #19
She'll probably put out LAWN GNOMES. Those things are hideous! Butterbean Jun 2015 #46
Anything that's not 100% lock step christx30 Jun 2015 #20
This person has never seen the Statue of David house in Los Angeles tishaLA Jun 2015 #21
lol Liberal_in_LA Jun 2015 #22
Relentlessly Gay? Interesting adjective use there Half-Century Man Jun 2015 #25
it's relentlessly gay when intermittently gay just won't do Kalidurga Jun 2015 #33
My lawn went through a bisexual kick for a while awoke_in_2003 Jun 2015 #28
This America -- if you want a relentlessly Christian, Patriotic, LGBT, or Greek yard -- you build it Algernon Moncrieff Jun 2015 #31
k&r... spanone Jun 2015 #32
How could I have POSSIBLY known yards could be gay at all? jmowreader Jun 2015 #36
If that already counts as relentlessly gay, Betty Karlson Jun 2015 #37
I like it! Rob H. Jun 2015 #38
It Turned... Sparhawk60 Jun 2015 #39
Writer needs a class in English grammar... Hepburn Jun 2015 #42
Well, if Danny the Street can be a transvestite, I guess a yard can be 'gay', too. randome Jun 2015 #44
Now there's a far out of left field reference that I absolute adore Blue_Adept Jun 2015 #57
"Christian area?" MyOwnPeace Jun 2015 #45
When there is a Gay wedding in front of a rainbow colored house, THEN it's relentlessly gay. progressoid Jun 2015 #47
And a painting contractor has volunteered to paint her house!!!!!!!!! dixiegrrrrl Jun 2015 #51
Holy cow. It's up to $22,000 now! progressoid Jun 2015 #56
Dear God, bunnies Jun 2015 #48
I wish my neighbours Snow Leopard Jun 2015 #49
kick........... dixiegrrrrl Jun 2015 #50
Please save us from the "relentlessly stupid"... Tom_Foolery Jun 2015 #52
I guess soon rainbows will be declared illegal as against their god's will and banned from the skies RKP5637 Jun 2015 #54
So what does this woman do when a rainbow occurs? Take the children inside and hide? nt logosoco Jun 2015 #58
Donation now up to 30, 000 dixiegrrrrl Jun 2015 #60

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
1. That's relentlessly gay?
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 07:01 PM
Jun 2015

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...

0rganism

(23,954 posts)
8. clearly i have no idea what "relentlessly gay" means...
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 07:40 PM
Jun 2015

...because my mind pictured many things and none of them had any resemblance at all to a row of colorful mason jars.

Hekate

(90,690 posts)
10. What the hell? Maybe the rainbow spectrum represents chakras, did they think of that? Or...
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 08:11 PM
Jun 2015

....maybe some people just want to light up the world with rainbow lights?

Maybe the neighbor just needs to get a life.

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
14. Get a huge poster of the "Piss Christ" exhibit...
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 09:32 PM
Jun 2015

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

(62,415 posts)
24. I was going to suggest she hang
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 10:00 PM
Jun 2015

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)
53. Just by way of art histroy fact 'Piss Christ' is a work by Andres Serrano, who is both straight and
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 11:11 AM
Jun 2015

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)
55. My only interest in mentioning that work was the shock value it holds on fundies...
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 02:14 PM
Jun 2015

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!

Hissyspit

(45,788 posts)
18. "This is a Christian area." IT'S BALTIMORE, DUMBASS.
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 09:39 PM
Jun 2015

Did this moron just move there?

Part of me wants this to be a hoax.

Half-Century Man

(5,279 posts)
26. The letter writer meant "anywhere I might see things I have been told not to like".
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 10:12 PM
Jun 2015

If she can personally see it and lacks the ability to understand it..........attack on her religion.

rpannier

(24,329 posts)
19. I am clutching my pearls in one hand and fanning myself with the other
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 09:41 PM
Jun 2015

Merciful heavens! What will happen next?

christx30

(6,241 posts)
20. Anything that's not 100% lock step
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 09:42 PM
Jun 2015

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)
21. This person has never seen the Statue of David house in Los Angeles
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 09:46 PM
Jun 2015

....that place would have made her shit her pants.

Half-Century Man

(5,279 posts)
25. Relentlessly Gay? Interesting adjective use there
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 10:06 PM
Jun 2015

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)
33. it's relentlessly gay when intermittently gay just won't do
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 11:33 PM
Jun 2015

yeah I have no idea what that means. That letter is just weird.

Algernon Moncrieff

(5,790 posts)
31. This America -- if you want a relentlessly Christian, Patriotic, LGBT, or Greek yard -- you build it
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 11:28 PM
Jun 2015

(The "Greek Yard" is a reference to "My Big Fat Greek Wedding&quot

And, in any event -- you call code enforcement, not the cops.

jmowreader

(50,557 posts)
36. How could I have POSSIBLY known yards could be gay at all?
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 12:29 AM
Jun 2015

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)
37. If that already counts as relentlessly gay,
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 02:49 AM
Jun 2015

I'd hate to hear her neighbours' opinion of my garden - or worse: my living room decorations.

 

Sparhawk60

(359 posts)
39. It Turned...
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 06:41 AM
Jun 2015

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.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
44. Well, if Danny the Street can be a transvestite, I guess a yard can be 'gay', too.
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 09:50 AM
Jun 2015

[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]

progressoid

(49,990 posts)
47. When there is a Gay wedding in front of a rainbow colored house, THEN it's relentlessly gay.
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 10:35 AM
Jun 2015


She's raised nearly $17K!

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
51. And a painting contractor has volunteered to paint her house!!!!!!!!!
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 11:08 AM
Jun 2015

One of the newest comments on the gofundme page.

Loving this response across the country for gay rights.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
60. Donation now up to 30, 000
Fri Jun 19, 2015, 09:12 AM
Jun 2015

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.

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