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[RedEarth]

Report of another hate crime in Delaware



Editor:

A significant number of 36th Representative Candidate Brian Dolan's campaign signs in the Milford area were vandalized with spray paint on or about Nov. 2. Nineteen of the signs read "No fags;" one sign read "Fag;" others were spray-painted without discernible words. This hate crime was reported to law-enforcement authorities as well as to a social justice organization. Before removal, the vandalized signs were seen by passing motorists, and the event was reported by a columnist in a Delaware newspaper.

The apparent reason behind this hate crime is that the candidate had supported sexual orientation antidiscrimination bill H.B. 99. Dolan himself is a heterosexual who was unfortunate enough to lose his wife to cancer and has not yet remarried in the less than two years since her death.

This blatant injustice against Dolan and against Delaware's gay community is self-evident to thinking people and should require no further comment from us except this: Our opponents themselves once again prove the need for legislation like H.B. 99. Will 2005 be the year when goodness wins out over hate in the First State?

Douglas and Corey

Marshall-Steele

Milton


http://www.delmarvanow.com/bethanybeach/stories/20041208/1714031.html