Aaron and Nik McFarland live in Ogden, Utah. They were married on October 31, 2014. Just days after Donald Trump was elected, they went out to their car and found it had been vandalized by some poor fool who doesn’t know how to spell.
“FAGET” was spray in red paint across the side of the couple’s car, along with the words “HOMO DIE” and “FAG.”
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Both men say they have no idea who targeted them and that they were immediately overwhelmed with feelings of “shock, fear, hurt and disgust.” Those feelings quickly subsided, however, after their story went viral on social media.
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“It’s really been unbelievable,” Aaron told his local press. “The things people have done for us, it’s showed us that the good people far outweigh the bad ones.”
The couple say they received an outpouring of support from all over the world, including offers to pay for the car to be repainted, extending invitations to stay in their homes, and an endless stream of supportive messages and well wishes.
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“(Supporters have) been people from around the Ogden area, around the state, around the country,” Aaron said. “We even had someone from Australia reach out to us. And it’s been people from both sides of the political aisle, which I think is important to note.”
One person even created a GoFundMe page for the McFarlands, but the couple says they would rather people donate money to local LGBTQ advocate organizations like Equality Utah or the Utah Pride Center.
“We feel like there’s a lot of people out there who need the help more than we do,” Aaron said. “We have a great support system. We’re going to be OK.”
As of now, Ogden Police Lt. Kevin Cottrell say there no suspects in the case.
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Heywood Jablowme
They must be French:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Faget
ChrisK
@Heywood Jablowme: Didn’t realize that the French would even go to Utah.
1EqualityUSA
Hey–That’s me yogurt.
stytlllr
Hate is hate, regardless of spelling.
Alistair Wiseman
Hey, lets make a bet on how many days it takes to find out this was ANOTHER in a long line of fake crimes.
(In the event this actually happened, I hope they are able to apprehend the vile cretin(s) and prosecute them and have them shamed in the media.)
ErikO
This sounds fake or he or his partner did it just for attention or to protest, like 99.9% of the supposed hate crimes against LGBT people and “people of color” and even Muslim people since the election of Donald Trump as President are turning out to be.
Jack Meoff
Hate crimes are being committed against minorities in the aftermath of the election but the Trump supporters have to dismiss them as fake or unimportant in order to not feel responsible for this outcome and not wear the blame. A lot of very smug posters on here this past week gloating and negating the consequences of their actions.
MarioSmario
I don’t believe this is really from a Trump supporter. The deliberate misspelling of the word faggot is just too obvious. Clearly it’s someone who is trying to make the alleged “Trump supporters” look bad by reinforcing the stereotype that they are illiterate rednecks. Does anyone remember years ago when a group went around blowing up railroad tracks in Minnesota and claimed they were a gay radical group? Even the cops knew it was an anti-gay group trying to turn the public against gays. This type of tactic goes on all the time all over the world. I’m gay, and I find the anti-Utah comments as ignorant and prejudicial and full as stereotypes as any anti-gay comments. Mature people should be above this.
MarioSmario
@ErikO: I agree–any reasonable person would recognize they are staged, just like most of the anti-Trump violence against Trump supporters has been grossly exaggerated. It works both ways. Social media is a disaster for disseminating any authentic information.
MarioSmario
@ChrisK: If you actually traveled there, opened your mind, experienced the world in its true form and not through the filter of media, you’d discover that Utah attracts people from all over the world–not just Mormons. But the fact that Mormons come in all stripes means that yes, you will hear nearly every language on earth spoken in downtown Salt Lake City. It’s probably one of the few cities I’ve been to in the U.S. where you can still hear French, Swedish, and Italian spoken by residents. The Mormons also have a saying: One religion, many languages. Because the Mormons believe in proselytization, their missionaries must learn many languages. It’s probably one of the few states where the majority speak more than one language. I’m not Mormon, but I just happened to know, because I did research. Utah also has one of the largest Scandinavian populations since most of the original Mormon converts were Swedish and Danish.
Oli1023
@MarioSmario: lol no. There is no evidence telling us that this is staged, just as there is no concrete evidence telling us that it wasn’t staged. Any reasonable person would recognize the possibility of both scenario. If someone automatically think it’s staged, that means they were determined to blame the “liberal left” for everything.
Learn to think logically before voicing your opinion, please.
abnerbha
@Alistair Wiseman:
When I read a gay (transexuals are mutilated gays/lesbians and they must abolish sex changes) bashing case, I wonder what the view is of the journalist reporting this on homosexuality/lesbianism. I also wonder if the journalist is a homosexual or lesbian and if so, are they setting aside their bias and reporting the news with no problems. I do not trust news that I get from Daily Kos or the Huffington Post on their coverage of gay bashing cases because they predictably make the homosexual look like an innocent victim no matter what wrong the gay does.