I need to read the local paper, I totally missed this:

[bicentennial_baby]

QUINCY —

For the fourth time in nine months, the gay pride flag flying outside the Church of the Presidents has been vandalized.

The flag was stolen last August, and again last September. Two months later it was burned, and this week it was stolen yet again.

The pastor, the Rev. Sheldon Bennett, said the rainbow flag was taken sometime Monday night, after the church office closed.

The flag flies outside the Parish Hall entrance to the church on Washington Street in Quincy Center. It’s a symbol of the congregation’s support for equal rights for gays, lesbian, bisexuals and transgendered persons.

The church, the United First Parish Unitarian Church, is called the Church of the Presidents. John Adams and John Quincy Adams worshiped there and are buried with their wives in the church crypt.

The Rev. Bennett said he and his congregation consider the theft a hate crime. In addition to reporting the theft to police, he said he has filed a complaint with the city human rights commission.

http://www.patriotledger.com/news/cops_and_courts/x157151733/Quincy-Center-church-s-gay-pride-flag-stolen-again

And the comments, for the most part, SUCK. x(

[rrneck]

1. Put a camera on it and bust 'em. nt

[imdjh]

2. Put a wire on it and shock 'em. nt

[rrneck]

4. Heh! Then upload the camera footage to Youtube as a warning to other assholes nt

[One_Life_To_Give]

3. Ouch

Even in the Bluest of states.

Are they taking up donations for a camera?