Colorado Farm Hit by Anti-Gay Vandalism

[William769]

A Colorado family farm that provides organic food and community supported agriculture found itself the target of anti-gay and anti-Semitic attacks Sept. 7. Ann Grant Martin, a lesbian member of the organic farm's founding family, told the Coloradoanthat the act was committed by “somebody with a lot of darkness in their hearts.”

According to Coloradoan.com, buses hand-painted with images of “Love” and “Peace” at the Wellington-based Grant Family Farm were defiled with spray-painted swastikas and anti-gay slurs in a possibly bias-motivated crime. The farm, which lies in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains just south of the Wyoming border, was started in 1953 by Lewis Grant and his son, Andi, and is now staffed by a variety of folks — gay and straight.

Used as mobile free-range chicken coops and a tour bus, the Grant Family Farms buses had been colorfully adorned through a regular tradition at the farm. Cherry Creek Schools donated one of them weeks earlier after 70 children helped paint the bus. The vandals — who have not been caught — spray pained on all sides of three buses, mostly swastikas and anti-gay slurs.


“The farm is a safe place to work, and it's a healthy place to work, and it's a very inclusive and respectful place to work,” Grant said, adding that the vandalism is “really upsetting.”

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/09/19/Colorado_Farm_Hit_by_Anti_Gay_Vandalism/

[RKP5637]

1. K&R n/t

[movonne]

2. More repugs doing business as usual...I am so sick of the hate

going around this sick, sick country...

[fishwax]

3. They're having a bus re-painting party this weekend, apparently

http://www.grantfarms.com/

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[Dogtown]

4. "....in a possibly bias-motivated crime."

They fucking *announced* themselves.

K&R.

[xchrom]

5. +1

[gratuitous]

6. Don't you hate the fake objectivity?

What the hell else motivated this crime except bias? And if the perpetrators were just some misunderstood run-of-the-mill vandals, I'll be sure to apologize to them for suspecting them of being raging bigots right after they turn themselves in to avoid being unfairly portrayed.

[Dogtown]

7. Exactly

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