Political yard signs can be a target for vandals
Cindy Hoehne can’t figure out why someone would deface a campaign sign. The large Mitt Romney Colorado sign that Hoehne and her husband, Gene, tied down on their fence in front of their Windsor home earlier this month definitely spelled out who they were voting for. “We had no sooner put that up than a black SUV went roaring down the street and they were yelling obscenities, and I didn’t think too much of it at the time,” Cindy said. “I just thought, ‘There’s somebody that doesn’t like Romney.’ ”
http://www.greeleytribune.com/news/2988560-113/sign-signs-cindy-anything
My take:
Right up front: DEFACING OR DESTROYING YARD SIGNS IS WRONG -- ALWAYS.
Now that that's out of the way, it occurs to me that the vandals were, in this case, agreeing with the candidate's party. Republican rhetoric has become routinely hateful - of gays, of people of color, of women, of the 47%, of the sick and disabled, of teachers and firefighters, of union workers - and that hatred is often couched in "godly" expressions that are "informed by faith". Given the frequency and increasing stridency of such outbursts, the "God hates" painted on the sign could easily be construed as a frank statement of the GOP's latest motto.
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