Photo: The Unitarians
have discovered a "hater" who put magic marker
over their rainbow decal at the bottom left of this sign.
The minister said, "We are in grief," and sent the
Sudbury police into action after turning down help from the
FBI. The Boston Globe reported that 1000 people jammed this
building in support of the bewildered paster. |
News
Analysis
Unitarian
Church Seeks A ‘Hater’ in Sudbury
February
2, 2001
The
Unitarian Church may have finally found the “hater” they have
been seeking throughout Massachusetts.
A
vandal in Sudbury has used magic markers to write swastikas on
the rainbow symbols of homosexuality that are displayed on church
signs outside their building, according to Channel 5. A rainbow
flag also flies over the church entrance.
“Obviously,
it’s a hate crime,” said Sgt. Todd Eadie of the Sudbury police.
“So we are treating it seriously.”
The
minister of the church, Rev. Katie Lee, said: “We are stunned.
We are in grief. We feel like we have been violated in some way.”
The church members cleaned the magic marker off the signs on Saturday,
but the swastikas reappeared the next day.
Channel
5 reported the story in its usual manner with a headline, ”Church
Coping With Hate Crimes,” The lead sentence was, “A church in
Sudbury has become the target of a hate crime.”
Work
of Vandals
Although everyone agrees that this work of vandals is
deplorable, many believe that this type of publicity is exactly
what the Unitarians have been seeking for years.
Their
church in the neighboring town of Concord helped sponsor a rally
last year to promote “safety in the schools” even though they
admitted that they had had no problems at all. This caused our
reporter to write, “If anyone knows a ‘homophobe’ who would like
to move to Concord, that town is searching for someone to hate.”
Photo: The three high school vandals
stole this homosexual symbol as well. |
The
Unitarians in Sudbury apparently hope they have finally found
one. There is no doubt that these religious people have very strong
feelings on this -- and every other subject. They refuse to acknowledge
that there are many sincere, intelligent persons who believe the
Unitarians are causing serious damage to homosexuals. The Unitarians
believe that they alone are on the side of God. They do not even
consider that they may be wrong.
The
Unitarians know that their flag and signs will cause intense feelings
in some people. It is a tribute to the citizens have apparently
ignored them up until this incident. Despite their obvious attempt
to arouse “haters,” the Unitarians have been totally unsuccessful
so far.
The
Unitarians are proud of the fact that they are non-violent. But
the definition of violent, according to Webster, is “showing,
or resulting from, strong feeling or emotion” and “great force
or strength of feeling.”
There
is no question that the exact reason the church is showing these
symbols outside their building is because they have such strong
feeling about the subject. This is “violent” behavior on their
part.
Students
Under Great Pressure
Hopefully, the teenage idiot who did this will not do
it again. But our students are put under great pressure in the
schools to listen to, and agree with, indoctrination with which
their parents and many other reasonable adults strongly disagree.
Most parents would be appalled if they knew what their children
are subjected to in school.
They
are still hearing, under pressure from the Unitarians, the old-fashioned,
out-of-date screed that "homosexuals are born that way"
and "God made them that way." This was believed back
in 1993 before the "gay gene" theory was repudiated
by everyone. If that theory were true, then everyone would agree
with them. But hanging flags and painting symbols does
not make these falsehoods correct – no matter how much the Unitarians
get in everyone’s face with “fighting words.”
In
light of the many false charges that occurred across the country
in the past year, some are wondering if this was the work of a
homosexual who did the vandalism in an attempt to garner publicity
-- similar to the UMass coed who caused great distress in Amherst
after saying she had been sexually attacked. Over $150,000 was
spent by the school on increased security, yet the name of the
woman has never been released, much less any criminal charges
filed.
Hopefully,
the Unitarians’ provocative behavior will not be successful in
igniting any of the real nuts in our community.
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