“Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,” one of the Ten Commandments reads. But apparently, one Christian neighbor in Baltimore isn’t intent on following that one. Shortly after Julie Baker decorated her home on Kentwood Avenue with rainbow-colored jars to hold lights on her porch, she found this homophobic and not-so-subtle note on her door:
Via Julie Baker’s Facebook page.
Her response? Take the matter to the Internet, where to do what the Internet does best: make it go viral and help her raise a lot of money to make her house look even gayer.
“Needless to say… I need more rainbows … Many, many more rainbows,” Baker writes on the GoFundMe page to make her house gayer, her response to her neighbor’s “bullying.” Baker, a widow and mother of four, wants to make her home “more ‘relentlessly gay'” to show that her family will not “relent to hatred,” but instead “battle it with whimsy and beauty and laughter and love, wrapped around [her] home, yard, and family.”
At the time of writing, her GoFundMe page has already raised over $30,000. Baker says that if she raises enough money, she’ll look into putting a rainbow roof on her home.
“They call me relentlessly gay? Damn right, I’m going to be relentless. I’m going to be relentlessly joyful, because life’s too short for anything else,” Baker said in an interview with the Post. “Relentlessly compassionate. Relentlessly amazing.”