An anonymous letter called her yard ‘relentlessly gay.’ She raised $28,000 to be even more relentles

[mahatmakanejeeves]

An anonymous letter called her yard ‘relentlessly gay.’ She raised $28,000 to be even more relentless.

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By Julie Zauzmer June 19 at 9:50 AM 

The anonymous letter-writer made it abundantly clear what he or she thought of Julie Baker’s yard decorations. The letter writer probably didn’t expect to launch a wildly successful fundraising campaign that would let Baker vastly magnify her rainbow decor.



Baker had heard some of this vitriol before, since she hung two rows of tea lights near her porch in rainbow-colored jars that she bought from A.C. Moore for a dollar apiece. When she first hung up the jars, she didn’t think of them as having anything to do with LGBT issues. They were just pretty — and as a professional artist, she has made rainbows a major theme of her work. “Anyone who’s known me for more than 10 seconds knows that I love rainbows,” she said.

But the letter writers must not know Baker. “Somebody threatened to burn down the house before. They’ve used words like ‘your kind,’ ‘people like you,'” said the mother of four.
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“They call me relentlessly gay? Damn right, I’m going to be relentless. I’m going to be relentlessly joyful, because life’s too short for anything else,” she said in an interview with the Post. “Relentlessly compassionate. Relentlessly amazing.” ... At the suggestion of her 17-year-old daughter, Baker created a fundraising page under the title “Relentlessly Gay.” She set a goal of $5,000 — enough, she thought, to put up lots more rainbow-themed decorations, and even paint her roof in rainbow stripes.

[Warpy]

1. My guess is that there is one Christian sourpuss in the neighborhood

Even in the south, that was usually the case.

Some people go through life trying to suck all the oxygen out of any room they're in. They generally find a religion to blame for doing so. I just wish the rest of the religious folks would take them on and show them the error of their ways, rather than holding them up as some sort of moral example--which they are not.

[catrose]

2. $35K & counting!