Widow Receives Nasty Note Over Her “Relentlessly Gay” Rainbow Yard Lights raises $24,000 in 2 Days!

[1monster]

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Widow Receives Nasty Note Over Her “Relentlessly Gay” Rainbow Yard Lights

When Julie Baker, a widow and mother of four, recently stepped out onto her front porch, she found an anonymous note taped to her door.

“Your yard is becoming Relentlessly Gay!” the note read. “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.”
It was signed, “A Concerned Home Owner.”

The note referred to a set of rainbow-colored solar yard lamps Baker had set up in her garden. For the record, they aren’t illegal, so we’re not sure what this concerned home owner expects police to do about it.

Rather than get angry, Baker took a page from Memories Pizza’s playbook and launched a GoFundMe page to fight back.
“I need more rainbows,” she writes. “Many, many more rainbows.

Here's her GoFundMe page... She gonna be able to buy tons of rainbows! http://www.gofundme.com/x6dkw9h

on edit: here is her "offensive" rainbow garden

[uppityperson]

1. The person who complained needs to meet this woman

[1monster]

5. O NO! Her water supply has been contaminated with Dihydrogen Monoxide!

And when Dihydrogen Monoxide mixes with sunlight! OMG!

[progressoid]

9. What's in our water that makes someone so stupid?

[Tree-Hugger]

16. I can't

Every time I see this linked I am unable to stop myself from watching it.

I still hold out hope it was someone making fun of conspiracy theorists. Right? RIGHT?

[awoke_in_2003]

37. OMG!!!!!

THE GAY GOT IN OUR WATER SUPPLY!!!!!

[daleanime]

2. Sweet!

[murielm99]

3. Solar yard lamps.

Does anyone else have them? How do they work?

They look nice.

[tridim]

8. I want some too.

Is it the bible or faux news that teaches these idiots that all colorful things are "gay"?

I remember when everyone liked colorful things.

[xmas74]

17. If you look at her GoFund she says she plans

on putting up a tutorial on how to make her mason jar solar lights.

I thought they were pretty.

[kentauros]

30. Here ya go:

Quick, easy, temporary, and beautiful LED garden lights

A Simple and Cheap Dark-Detecting LED Circuit

Simple Solar Circuits

I would guess she also shows how to make them in whatever color on her page. I don't recall if any of the above links spell that out, other than to use colored LEDs.

[murielm99]

38. I found several links for making the jars glittery.

All you need is glitter, in whatever colors you like, and some modge podge. After you color the jars, then you use LEDs.

[kentauros]

39. Okay :)

I was thinking either colored LEDs or colored acetate sheets wrapped inside the jars.

Are you going to try making any? I've never used the instructions I linked, but they do look pretty simple.

[murielm99]

40. I think I might try it.

I will post some pictures if I do it.

[murielm99]

41. This link shows the glitter jar part:

http://www.lilyshop.com/how-make-glitter-mason-jars

[kentauros]

42. Thanks for the link!

My girlfriend likes stuff like that, so I'll have to send it to her.

Good luck making the light-circuits

[TlalocW]

4. A shit-ton of rainbows

Is very evocative. But not as evocative as, "Tempestuous bat guano."



Also a good name for a band. Either... Maybe Tempestuous Bat Guano could open for A Shit-Ton of Rainbows...

TlalocW

[bluesbassman]

6. Already taken, although they spell it N-I-C-K-E-L-B-A-C-K. Must be a Canadian thing.

BTW kudos for Julie Baker! I can't wait to see what she does with her yard!

[Tree-Hugger]

13. .

[awoke_in_2003]

20. I thought it was R-U-S-H

[bluesbassman]

21. Touché

However, one may not like Rush's music, but their musicianship is stellar. Something that will never be said for any member of Tempestuous Bat Guano.

[awoke_in_2003]

22. My jabs at Rush are good natured...

they are very adept at what they do, maybe a little too precise for my taste. I prefer the slightly chaotic John Bonham.

[bluesbassman]

23. I hear you.

Their studio stuf can get a bit ponderous and sometimes it's just too "much", but I saw them live in San Jose about ten years ago and what they did on stage was incredible. That three guys could produce that kind of sound was amazing.

As far as rock drummers go though, I'm right there with you on JB. Had it all that one did. Intensity, emotion, and technique that changed the course of rock drumming IMO.

[awoke_in_2003]

25. Yep

I figured we might agree a little bit- blues can be a little "messy"- take Howlin Wolf. Raw emotion, and maybe a little fear (Wolf was an intimidating presence)

[LiberalEsto]

7. For Goddess's sake, have rainbows become illegal or something?

This is so ridiculous. Light contains a spectrum of colors. Sunlight at certan angles, plus water droplets, equals rainbows. These are natural phenomena, brought to us by Mother Nature.

Just because something has a rainbow of colors doesn't necessarily mean anything. It could just mean that someone likes that combination of colors.

These fundie nuts apparently see demons in everything. In my humble opinion, this is a symptom of mental illness. Paranoia, perhaps.

[uppityperson]

10. and, omg, the children have to buy for school supplies....rainbow colored crayons!!!!!!!!111

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

12. Intense, illogical hatred has all sorts of side effects. Seeing evil in rainbows may be one.

[RKP5637]

26. Most fundies IMO are mentally ill. Religion gives them an excuse to band together and jointly

practice their brand of insanity.

[LiberalElite]

27. a "shared delusion" as it were nt

[RKP5637]

28. Yes, quite true! n/t

[hughee99]

11. And it seems like just yesterday, gofundme was for hucksters to fleece idiots.

My how things change when you support the cause.

[xmas74]

18. I never thought that.

My kid's high school band had a gofundme for their band trip.

Some causes are different than others.

[1monster]

35. You may have thought that, but I've even contributed to a few things on Go Fund Me and that

other one (something like Indigogo) when I believed in it. I think Go Fund Me and the other one are great things. No one is forcing anyone to contribute and some of the people using them are legitimately in need or have great ideas that they cannot fund any other way.

No, I didn't contribute to Rainbow lady, but that was because she had already met nearly five times her goal by the time I found it. And, to be honest, I have better things to contribute my hard earned bucks.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

43. I wonder is she will post follow up pictures.

I'd like to see what $28K does to gay up her yard.

[Arugula Latte]

14. Why is there so much Christian lunacy in this country?

It's embarrassing. Much of Europe has been able to shake off this idiocy. Why can't we?

[RKP5637]

32. The US is working hard to be the leader of religious crackpots. Yes, Idiocracy thrives well in the

US. Traveling in Europe and being recognized as American is embarrassing.

[BeeBee]

15. I'm still trying to figure out the "relentlessly gay" thing.

I guess I'm "relentlessly gay" too. According to the dictionary, relentless is: unyieldingly severe, strict, or harsh. I guess that does describe my gayness. Unyieldingly severely gay. Strictly gay. Harshly gay. Hmm.

[RKP5637]

34. Ohhh, this must be the "relentlessly gay" thing.

[BeeBee]

44. Ohh, yes! I definitely think this qualifies as relentlessly gay! n/t

[1monster]

36. I'd be in real trouble with this person. I just painted my house PINK! A really pale

pink with a darker pink trim. I was thinking about lavender, but I couldn't find a pale enough shade for the main color. Thank goodness I live in a state where pink, lavender, turquoise, and pale coral are considered normal colors to paint one's house.

[Angry Dragon]

19. I have never seen anything so gay

God will be forced to smite her with a rainbow

[TexasBushwhacker]

24. Threatening to call the police

Good luck with that. She/he didn't even have the Christian courage to sign her/his name.

[RKP5637]

29. "This is a Christian area ..." Clearly, their should be warning signs posted, danger danger, do not

enter!

[RKP5637]

31. OMG "rainbow-colored solar yard lamps." They must be banned! Pull them from the shelves, bring in

the swat teams. OMG, the horrors of "rainbow-colored solar yard lamps." It's the work of the devil I tell you, yes, the work of the devil.

[RKP5637]

33. OMG!!! OMG!!! OMG!!!