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A Concerned Homeowner #fundie baltimoresun.com

A Baltimore resident has started a GoFundMe campaign so she can make her "relentlessly gay" yard even more relentless and more gay.

The campaign is in response to a note that Julie Baker said, via a Facebook post, was left by a neighbor.

Phone calls and messages sent through Facebook and GoFundMe asking Baker for comment have not been returned.

The note, according to the Facebook photo, read: "Your yard is becoming Relentlessly Gay! 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 note, which Baker said she discovered inside her door, was signed, "A Concerned Home Owner."

In her fundraising page, Baker said the note was in response to a set of rainbow solar lights she had recently hung in her yard. She said the lights spelled out the words "Love" and "Ohana," which is a Hawaiian expression for family unity. The rainbow, and rainbow colors, are a symbol of gay pride.

The story has been picked up my a large number of national outlets, including prominent LGBT blog Joe. My. God.

"Needless to say... I need more rainbows... Many, many more rainbows—.," Baker wrote on her fundraising page. "...I am starting this fundraiser so I can work to make my Home even More relentlessly gay."

"Put simply," Baker wrote. "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!!!"

As of about 10:15 p.m. Wednesday, Baker had more than doubled her $5,000 fundraising goal to make her home relentlessly gayer. (No word yet on decor plans beyond a potentially rainbow roof: "Because my invisible relentlessly gay rainbow dragon should live up there in style!" she wrote.).

Rick Martin #fundie baltimoresun.com

I applaud Russian authorities for convicting "Pussy Riot" — the very name suggesting sex and violence — of committing a hate crime against religion. The all girl punk band willfully, maliciously and blasphemously desecrated a Russian Orthodox Church.

Everyone has a right to freedom of expression. This includes those who were attending the religious service in question. These people's rights were obviously denied and violated by the surprise guerrilla invasion. Many of them — especially the older and religiously devout — may actually have been seriously traumatized for life by the devilish antics of these young, radical feminists.

I believe a two year jail sentence is rather harsh for such a crime. I would rather have seen the girls forced to faithfully attend Holy Mass each day followed by an hour of bible school — perhaps for a year. In this way their punishment could be served out in the form of rehabilitation. If the girls were encouraged to understand religion a little more they might actually come to appreciate it more fully. Then their raw and wicked energy could be converted into a more positive and powerful force for good in this world.

John_11 #fundie baltimoresun.com

(From a news story about a 7 year old with brain cancer who's been told that he's a superhero battling his archenemy)

I wish the story could have mentioned how Dominic has met Christ, the most important part of the story. I am sure it wasnt the family that kept it out. Thanks.