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Homosexual Activist Targets Colorado Family with “Hate Crime” Fire in Front Yard
LifeSite.net ^ | September 28, 2006 | LifeSite.net

Posted on 09/29/2006 1:57:08 PM PDT by Dumb_Ox

Homosexual Activist Targets Colorado Family with “Hate Crime” Fire in Front Yard Fire starter leaves note accusing family of being terrorists for opposing homosexuality

By Gudrun Schultz

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, September 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A family displaying signs opposing homosexuality on their front lawn have been the target of accelerating harassment by homosexual activists, culminating in a Klu Klux Klan type of blazing fire started in their front yard in the middle of the night, Focus on the Family’s Citizen Link reported yesterday.

Christina Sewall woke up about 2 a.m. in her Colorado Springs home to discover a large bonfire on her front lawn, started by a man caught clearly on a video camera set up in the window of the home. The police have called it a hate crime, the latest in a series of increasing threats and vandalism since the Sewalls first set up the innocuous images as part of an ad campaign by Focus on the Family Action.

The simple ads show a dog silhouette with the caption “woof” and the web address No-Moo-lies.com--the ads are intended to counter an ad campaign to raise support for homosexual domestic partnerships on the November ballot, according to Citizen Link, which show a dog with the caption “moo,” intended to represent the “difference” of homosexuality.

A note left after the first pair of signs was taken overnight read, in part:

“This sign is a symbol of hatred…YOU ARE NO BETTER THAN A TERRORIST BECAUSE YOU DISPLAYED THAT SIGN!

“The purpose of this document is to inform not you, but all who share your anti-gay or any other discriminatory beliefs, your world is about to change…SO TAKE WARNING! Your life, your government and the world as you know it is about to change. YOU ARE EITHER WITH US OR AGAINST US!”

“How is this being tolerant. They set our lawn on fire?” Sewall said. “We’re not preaching hate, but they are the ones doing the violence.”

The Sewalls have responded to each act of vandalism by replacing the signs in front of their house, but say the risk is distressing.

“We haven’t been resting very well since it started. As adults, we can make the decision and say we think standing up for what we believe in is worth the risk. But we also have to take into consideration that we are taking that risk for kids who can’t decide.”

Earlier in the campaign against them, Christina Sewall told Citizen Link, “The reason we continue [to put out signs]--we have the right to place signs in our yard…And we’re not going to give it up because some people don’t agree with what we’re saying. We aren’t telling them they can’t put things in their yard.”

Now, after the fire, she is still committed to resisting the intimidation, but it is difficult, she said.

“There is some fear and some concern there. But, it also makes me want to stand up all the more, because we are not the ones preaching intolerance.

See coverage by Citizen Link: http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0042120.cfm


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: colorado; coloradosprings; freespeech; gays; hatecrime; homosexualagenda; intimidation; militantgays; tolerance; whatgoesaround; willcomearound
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To: taxcontrol

Well alrighty then.

At 2AM there should be very few questions asked.


21 posted on 09/29/2006 2:42:19 PM PDT by HEY4QDEMS (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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To: Dumb_Ox

Hypocrites and fascists, claiming they represent tolerance, but only tolerance of THEIR views. Anyone else, go ahead and set their lawn on fire. Typical liberals.


22 posted on 09/29/2006 2:48:02 PM PDT by Chewie84
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To: lowbridge

Free Speech; as long as you say, what I want to hear...


23 posted on 09/29/2006 2:50:38 PM PDT by thinking
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To: Dumb_Ox
What's going on in the Springs?

I don't know because I don't live there but I suspect that area as well as a growing number of Colorado cities are being taken over by an influx of liberals from across the nation but mostly California. Such uncontrolled infestation will ultimately overthrow the balance of sanity and politics in any such targeted community.

The only answer I can come up with is nothing more than open hostility towards any newcomers to the area who exhibit such tendencies. If not, they will continue the infestation.

24 posted on 09/29/2006 2:55:38 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Cure for Islamo-Fascism: Louisville Slugger, apply directly to the forehead!)
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To: Dumb_Ox


A couple of these on the front lawn ought to fix the problem

25 posted on 09/29/2006 2:58:53 PM PDT by Beckwith (The dhimmicrats and liberal media have chosen sides and they've sided with the Jihadists.)
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To: gcruse

Homosexuals are VERY radical.

It is the nature of their selected fetish.

Most homosexuals I have seen on this issue treat it with the same insanity as a trying to take a crack rock away from a crack addict.

The fact of the matter is the VAST super majority of society has no interest in normalizing homosexual conduct.

Homosexuals are this radical and probably even worse.


26 posted on 09/29/2006 2:59:57 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Dumb_Ox

Liberals and homosexuals are by definition the most tolerant people in the world. This story must be a hoax.

I never ever write or say anything sarcastic.


27 posted on 09/29/2006 3:00:31 PM PDT by FreedomProtector
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To: LexBaird

How about their attacks on Christian groups in philidelphia?


How about their attacks on parents who oppose GLSEN or GSA sex clubs in schools?

The list goes on and on.


28 posted on 09/29/2006 3:04:06 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Dumb_Ox

When someone burns a cross on your lawn the best firehose is an AK-47. ....General Laney

When homos lights a fire on your front lawn the best firehose is STILL am AK-47.


29 posted on 09/29/2006 3:24:03 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have never found a fight they couldn't run from...Ann Coulter))
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To: taxcontrol

My 8th grade Social Studies teacher at North Jr High in Colorado Springs back in 1980 or 1981, was the original cause for the 'Make My Day' law in Colorado. He shot an intruder who had broke in to his enclosed porch through a mail box slot in the door. He was charged for this, but people were up in arms about him only protecting his property so that is what started the 'Make My Day' law in CO. I never saw this teacher again after this incident.


30 posted on 09/29/2006 3:24:25 PM PDT by FatnSlo
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To: gcruse

Are homosexuals that radical?

I invite you to the Cathedral of St. Paul, in St. Paul, MN, on World Marriage Day, Pentecost Sunday, or really any given Sunday. You'll see for yourself just how radical they can be. Usually there are just a couple of people with signs with the theme "Stop Preaching Hate." but on special days they step things up quite a bit.


31 posted on 09/29/2006 3:37:03 PM PDT by adgirl
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To: Dumb_Ox

bump


32 posted on 09/29/2006 3:42:53 PM PDT by VOA
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To: gcruse
This might be anti-gays doing it to make themselves look like victims.

They have it on video.

started by a man caught clearly on a video camera set up in the window of the home.

If they were going to fake it, I doubt they'd have the video cameras set up.

33 posted on 09/29/2006 4:24:56 PM PDT by sten
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34 posted on 09/29/2006 4:55:19 PM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: Prophet in the wilderness

Police have said it's a hate crime:

http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0042120.cfm


35 posted on 09/29/2006 5:42:42 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (Stop the ACLU - Support the Public Expression of Religion Act 2005 - Call your congressmen.)
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To: gcruse

uh huh, and how do you breath with your head so far in the sand? I have always wondered how that was done.


36 posted on 09/29/2006 7:19:03 PM PDT by gidget7 (Political Correctness is Marxism with a nose job)
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To: gcruse

" Are homosexuals that radical? Probably not. "

Yep, you're correct. The gays are the normal ones. They are the ones being victimized here.


37 posted on 09/29/2006 7:30:28 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (Stop the ACLU - Support the Public Expression of Religion Act 2005 - Call your congressmen.)
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To: ViLaLuz

Good for the police...


38 posted on 09/29/2006 7:48:03 PM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: gidget7

Like I said, it's a Freeper conspiracy thing. Whenever anthrax is sent to an abortion clinic, the socons allow as to how the clinics do that to themselves to get sympathy. I didn't invent that mindset.


39 posted on 09/29/2006 7:57:23 PM PDT by gcruse (" I can not support them now because Jones has turned them into a joke" I can not support them now b)
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To: Dumb_Ox

>>>> YOU ARE NO BETTER THAN A TERRORIST BECAUSE YOU DISPLAYED THAT SIGN! <<<<

As I have said before..

See how Easily you to can become a terrorist.

Barney Blasts Gay Marriage Foes
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1549566/posts

>>> “Basically, they’re the disturbers of the civic peace,” <<<<


40 posted on 09/29/2006 9:14:12 PM PDT by quietolong
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