Lexi Magnusson of Seattle’s Christmas lights display (Facebook.com)
Lexi Magnusson — who lives in a small town outside of Seattle — recently met her new neighbor, a woman who stated outright that she and her family had moved away from Oregon because schools there were “making it okay” for students to be openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender.
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“She’s Mormon and heard that we were, too. My guess is that she thought we were still believers, even though my husband told her we no longer attend,” she told Huffington Post. “I imagine she thought we still held the same belief about LGBTQ issues as the Church does. We absolutely do not. It’s why I left the Mormon church.”
“I responded only with, ‘Your kids are going to be exposed to this no matter where you take them. Kids these days get it. They know not to be horrible to other kids based on how they were born,’” Magnusson recounted. “Then I walked inside [my house] and rage-ate a bowl of nachos.”
Magnusson then decided to decorate her lawn with a giant, glowing rainbow flag make of 10,000 Christmas lights.
“Our new neighbors are bigots,” she posted on Reddit. “Since regular aggression leads to assault charges, I went with passive aggression. 10,000 lights later.”
“I felt good the entire time I put them up,” she told HuffPost. “I sent a text to my cousin who loves Christmas lights like I do, and who is also gay. His approval was everything.”
You can read Ms. Magnusson’s FB post at the link. All I want to say here is thank you, Lexi Magnusson, you make this world a better, shining place.
“Since regular aggression leads to assault charges, I went with passive aggression. 10,000 lights later.”
Regular aggression also leads to self-pity from the poor oppressed “victim.” This sort of mockery is going to sting longer, and harder. Good.
Another similar reaction:
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Wish her a happy holiday too. Film the meltdown.
The mildly deranged penguin approves so much she began clapping her wings together — and squished the brie she was holding, accidentally taking off (she is a bird) and smashing into the ceiling, so startling her she dropped the squished brie remains. Her whooping and crying, not to mention the THUMP! as she hit the ceiling, alerted the extremely angry mouse, who darted out form somewhere, snatched the dropped brie, jumped up on the table, applauded, then in one smooth movement, saluted Ms Magnusson and ate the brie. A slightly dazed penguin is still sniffing around on the floor for the dropped cheese, and blaming the disaster on Teh Gay, er, the bigots.
I just drank a toast to Ms Magnusson after diving underneath the desk. Well done!
I now have an internet crush on this lovely woman (and probably the rest of her family too). :D
Love it. I’m going to see if I can find some rainbow flags from a local group that uses the proceeds for LGBTQ causes.