A Stitch in Haste

...There's a land that I'm scared of, hence I will just fly by:

"We came here in search of our dreams, my wife always wanted a bed and breakfast and I always wanted a restaurant," says California native J.R. Knight.

But recently their dream has turned into a nightmare, all because of a flag they're flying outside. "It's a rainbow flag — to some people it means friendship to some people it means gay pride," says Knight. But for Knight, it was just a souvenir from his 12-year-old son [from a "Wizard of Oz" museum].
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Local resident, Keith Klassen says the flag is a slap in the face to the conservative community of Meade [Kansas]. “To me it's just like running up a Nazi flag in a Jewish neighborhood.

Of course, the fact that it was gays, not conservatives, who were sent to the concentration camps alongside Jews is a pesky little irrelevancy for the uptight upright citizens of Meade.*

The Knight's bed-and-breakfast is now foundering, as a local newspaper and radio station have shown their "conservative principles" by trying to drive out the family. Because those who are Friends of Dorothy fans of The Wizard of Oz are, apparently, now a core constituency of The Others Who Are Ruining America™.

I'm not sure this was the intended interpretation of: "The wind began to switch, the house to pitch, and suddenly the hinges started to unhitch..." Go figure.

(Via Konagod by way of Pam's House Blend. More thoughts at Hothouse.)

*And let's also not forget that, when the camps were liberated, many homosexual detainees were not freed, but simply transfered to civilian jails by the Allied forces.