Halloween Weekend Lesbophobes Haunt Couple’s Home With A Noose And Graffiti Threat
THE SHOT - Someone spray painted an anti-gay message on the Parker, Colorado home of Aimee Whitchurch and her partner Christel Conklin—the vandals also left a noose on their doorstep. According to the couple, the local Homeowners Association (which accuses the couple of loud noises and leaving dog poop everywhere) sloppily painted over the graffiti and also increased police patrols. But the couple placed signs on their garage door reading “We will not submit to hate” and “Don’t cover it, solve it.”
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@Ray:
How do you know this couple isn’t black to begin with, and what makes you think the feds care about black people that much? There are crimes against people of color everyday without anyone ever batting an eye, so stop acting like we’re getting some kind of special treatment…
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Why call them lesbophobes? We’re all homosexuals. I just don’t understand the mindset of people who commit these types of crimes. I hope that I never will.
ChattyKathy: Right, as a Black and lesbian person I’m laughing. The police force is also full of right-wingers with violent tendencies towards gays, blacks, teenagers and latinos, an unfortunate fact of life.
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I think it’s disgusting in this day and age that somebody(s) would stoop to such an idiotic and low thing as doing something like this.
Some people just can’t seem to live and let live.
I do believe this falls well under the law of hate crime and if whoever did it is caught, they are going to find out all too quickly just how serious a crime that is.
Hang in there Aimee and Christel knowing that the lowlifes that do this type of stuff are an insignificant fractional minority of the rest of us who actually have lives.
And for what its worth, that is the opinion of someone who is not gay, just appalled at this happening.
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Well I would assume that the closer you get to Focus on the family, the more hate you will see.
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Come on now. Lets quit being the victims. I did alot worse shit than this when I was a teenager, maybe the lesbians should try and be better neighbors, turn down the loud noises, and clean up the dog crap. Doesnt sound like a hate crime, more like teenagers. I dont condone it by any means, but dont think it should be labeled a hate crime. It happens, and Im sorry but keep it in perspective.
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This is terrible. I do think it is absolutely a hatecrime… if it was spray painted “shut the f– up” or “die bitches” it would just be generic vandalism or even just boring ol’ misogyny but when its about someones race or religion or orientation its a different kind of attack. I hope the cops get on it.
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That’s disgusting!