Run-in with homophobic neighbor

[stargazer99]

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"!

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.)