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Aug. 20, 2006
Oh Those Peace Loving Liberals
In the early years of our marriage, my husband and I observed a strict 'no bumper sticker' policy feeling that they made a car look trashy. In recent years, however, we have dramatically changed our view. As we have watched the culture decline before our eyes, we decided our bumpers were a good place to stand up and be counted. It is our hope that as more people display conservative opinions like ours, they will once again be accepted as part of the cultural norm here in the People's Republic of California.
Both of our vehicles are decorated with various bumper stickers and both have been the target of varying degrees of vandalism because of it.
(The bumper stickers above appear on my husband's commuter car - a 1993 Chrysler Concorde - affectionately referred to by his colleagues as the "Geez Mobile". The 4 below can be found on the lift gate of our minivan.)
 Last August, my "Marriage = Man + Woman" bumper sticker was stolen while I was shopping at Toys R Us. One day while shopping at Safeway, my husband's "My SUV Loves Iraqi Oil" was altered to read "American blood for Iraqi Oil" with a permanent marker (we don't even own an SUV). A few weeks ago outside WalMart, someone slapped a pro-choice bumper sticker over our new "Marriage = Man + Woman" decal.
This spring I was coming out of our church on a weekday when I encountered 3 beauty school students standing behind my van (the church shares a parking lot with a beauty school). I overheard one of them responding to a question about our NRA sticker as follows: "Those are people who like think we like have the right to bear arms or whatever."
  (Since we live in Sacramento, home of the man who challenged the constitutionality of the phrase "Under God", I had to have this one.)
Since we park our cars inside our garage at home, all of this vandalism and possibly more (several odd dents have appeared in the lift gate of our van) has occurred while we are parked in public places.
Folks also frequently display their distain using well known hand gestures while we drive the highways and byways of California.
(This is our bumper sticker graveyard of decals that have been replaced by more timely issues.)
All of these acts have presumably been committed by those who preach peace and tolerance while demonstrating quite the opposite. They tolerate only liberal ideas, they cry peace while engaging in vandalism and they are bold enough to do it in a busy public place in broad daylight. These are the people responsible for the decline of our culture and they are not good people.
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