Run-in with homophobic neighbor
 

One of our old biddy neighbors (who we'd never even met before today) rang our doorbell today and proceeded to lecture my husband about a sign we have in our yard. (I wasn't home at the time, so I don't know the full extent of what was said, just the particularly wacko stuff!)

Our yard sign says to vote against a proposed amendment to our state's constitution, which would define marraige as a "union between one man and one woman". The amendment also states that anything "resembling a marriage or identical to marriage" won't be recognized by the state. Mind you, we already had a "defense of marriage" act defining marriage this way pass 2 years ago. But that's not good enough for the homophobes. They feel the need to write bigotry into our state constitution to prevent any "activist, homo-loving" judges from overturning the ban on gay marriages. Furthermore, if this amendment passes, it will raise many questions about whether it would affect domestic partner benefits, etc., for gay couples.

So anyway, the old biddy rings our doorbell and when my husband answers the door, she tells him that our sign is wrong, and that it should say to "vote FOR" the amendment. She then proceeds to babble on about Sodom and Gomorrah (sp?), and about how gays are an abomination to God. She also tells him that she read about some letter that "the homosexuals" sent to congress, saying that they're going to come into hetero couples' homes and rape the husbands in their bathtubs, and that they're going to stalk kids in movie theatres and turn them gay! She ends her rambling by saying that "they're (gays) coming to get us"! :eek:

It never ceases to amaze me how ignorant and openly bigoted some people can be. The gall of her to actually try to come into our house to pass her moral judgments on us! I wonder how many more of these freaks I'll have to deal with over the next 2 weeks until election day?! (Or until someone runs down our sign, whichever comes first.) :mad:

I would have told her if it was me, that this is who I am, and no matter how much you demonize me and spout your hate, I love who I am and am proud of it. Then I would've said "Now crawl back into that hole you came out of and stay there!!!"

And you stood there while she spouted all this? After her first sentence, I would've given her two seconds to get off my property before I beat her in the head with a baseball bat.

I wouldnt be surprised if she's a follower of the Reverend Fred Phelps:mad:

Bless your heart - I feel for ya living here in Georgia :eek:

Hey I got a funny story for you. When I was traveling too see Stevie this summer, I was driving through Mississippi, and I pulled into this gas station, and as I was leaving, this truck full of Jethroe's pulled up and I heard one of them say "Hey, look at that guys sticker on the back of his car, dont that mean he's queer?" I have a rainbow triangle on the back of my car. Needless to say I hightailed it outta there.....:nod:

LOL - at least they knew what it meant.

No, I didn't stand there... my husband did! I wasn't home at the time.

I had the same reaction as you... I would have told her to get the f*ck off of my property, and would have slammed the door in her face. My husband's reasoning, though, was that you should always listen to what your enemies have to say... so you can use it against them later! But I'd rather have the pleasure of telling them where to go!

Yet another reason why gay people should carry guns.

ONe of them was cute as hell too, too bad.:lol:

How do you stand it?! :lol:

Seriously, though, we just moved here (Texas) from Chicago several months ago. I went from a very blue state to smack dab in the middle of Bush country! I also went from having Dick Durbin and Barack Obama as my senators to Kay Bailey Hutchinson and John Cornyn! :eek: It's been pretty much pure hell for this bleeding heart liberal!

Well, as you probably noticed, few win in an oral argument with me :laugh:

Also, I live in Atlanta, which is mostly liberal in the application of its society if not its politics.

Yeah, Atlanta is sort of an oasis of reason in that state isnt it? Didnt Oprah do a show in Forsyth county back in the 80's about some racist thing that went on there?

:laugh: :laugh:

Isn't it sad that in the year 2005, we have to be afraid of using our freedom of speech? I have some anti-Bush bumper stickers on the back of my car. I fear for my life everyday since I moved here, driving around with those on my car. This is a concealed weapons state, after all! If you're driving with your gun in your car, you have to have it in plain view on the seat next to you... and within quick reach when road rage overcomes ya! :eek:

Forsyth County used to have a sign that said "No Ni**ers Allowed" - Of course, the servants had a day pass. Nice and Christian weren't they :rolleyes:

Oh Honey - you should see me turn Julia Sugarker terminator on people. I made some poor Representative cry one time in a challenge of religious faith :laugh:

You are not the only bleeding heart in Texas! But you need to learn the secret handshake and get the map to our secret base...

That would definitely come in handy! Will you initiate me into your club... pretty please?

That county isnt too far from Atlanta is it?

I thought everyone knew Austin was our secret base. :lol:

That's like if there's something that I dont like on the radio or tv, I just turn it off or switch the station.

I really would have loved to see this woman's reaction if I'd been home when she came a callin'... my husband is black, and I'm white! Assuming her bigotry isn't only towards gays, she probably would have just shook her head, said "nevermind", and walked away, figuring it was a lost cause! :laugh: Either that, or she would have told us that mixing of the races is an abomination against God!

She'd have soiled her depends I think.:lol:

Then I would've brought up the name of that writer Honore De Balzac and she'd have thought I was talking dirty and said I was going to hell for that too!!.:laugh:

You're right. Austin is our Batcave!!

Before I worked in the corporate offices, I worked as a book manager in one of the stores. During the 2004 election, I had a display of politically themed books, most were of a liberal slant, but that was because there were more books published against Bush than for. My poor staff and I got soooo many complaints. I would always counter with the argument that no matter who is in power, there will always be more opposition books and that no one complained when Clinton was in office and every other book was slandering him.

One guy had the nerve to call the radio and tv station and complain that I censored books because I was sold out of that Swift Boat book. There I was on the news holding up my reservation list to prove I was not keeping people from reading whatever they chose to.

I think the next time she comes over, you should answer the door in a thong and pasties and exclaim while pulling her inside "are you my next client" :cool:

I would love to see that!

Mind you, I'm not about to take the bumper stickers off my car. In fact, I may get some more! But I tend to shy away from being overly confrontational when I'm driving, especially after the time my car got hit with a slurpie by a rude driver that I had flipped her off! I'm afraid that with my luck, if I get too confrontational with a driver here, I'll get by a bullet rather than a slurpie!

:lol: :laugh: :lol: :laugh:

I'm actually surprised that when the big black man opened the front door, she didn't go running down the street screaming "They're ALL coming to get us now!"

That is if she could have run that far with her walker....:laugh:

Hey, come to Canada, we love you gay's, eh! :xoxo:

I remember when I was in Montreal about 10 years ago, there was this really cute guy in the subway station. :thumbsup:

Okay, I just almost spit out my drink! :lol:

Better yet - put your husband in the thong and pasties :eek:

Of course both of you at one time and something involving a leash and a sling in plain sight ought to do it as well.

Well now, it looks like we have ourselves a tituation here...:lol:

Stop it! You're killing me, here!

Of course, many members of the "morality police" who like to tell others that they're deviants, have a closet full of whips, chains and ball gags in themselves! Maybe she would have actually asked us if she could join in! ;)

See Jimmy Swaggart, if you might remember.:nod:

Thus, FINALLY a good use for a ball gag :cool:

Sheesh
 

I'm sure she was raised in a totally different time era. My grandmother doesn't agree with mixed marriages or anything of that nature. When she tells me about family members or friends, I just nod because I don't wanna argue with my 82 year old Nanny. Of course, I don't believe what she does, but I know she was raised back in the teens-20's and 30's. She ain't gonna change her mind about anything. I love and respect her, but I don't have to agree with her.

I just cannot believe the balls that some people have in going to someone's home to say something like that.

My grandmother was like that too. But when I told her I was gay, she said "Well, I'm not happy about it, but you're still my grandson. Thank god for reason.:nod:

My grandma was the same way. (She passed away a few years back, at the age of 92). She never met my husband, since by the time I was dating him, she was pretty senile and in a nursing home 800 miles away. But I'm sure if she had met him, considering her state of mind at the time, she probably would have thought he was a "servant" and asked him to bring her a glass of water or something. And if she'd met him while she still had her mind intact, she would have been totally disgusted. So yeah, I can definitely see your point.

The sad thing is that there are many people our age that feel that way as well. Unfortunately, some families continue to pass it down from generation to generation. Kind of like those girl singers in the other thread. :distress: