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Minister Told by State Rep to ‘By All Means, Leave’ Wyoming Stands Her Ground

Feb. 28, 2013 10:03am Mytheos Holt

By now, the case of Wyoming State Rep. Hans Hunt, who told a constituent concerned with Wyoming’s decision to allow “concealed carry” that she could “by all means, leave” has gone thoroughly viral.

Rev. Audette Fulbright, Recipient of Hans Hunts By All Means, Leave Email, Gives Her Side to TheBlaze

Reverend Audette Fulbright (Photo Credit: Facebook)

While Rep. Hunt himself has gained most of the attention, the woman who prompted his angry email – Rev. Audette Fulbright, pastor at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Cheyenne, Wyoming – isn’t ready to back down, even given that she “was never treated so inappropriately by an elected official before.”

TheBlaze reached out to Fulbright via Facebook, and we were able to get her side of the story, as well as her take on the viral traction it has gained, and the fallout she herself has received. While Fulbright did suggest the story had been slightly overblown, she was more than willing to explain how she sees the issues, even after Rep. Hunt’s rather blunt public rebuff.

“I’m not sure there is much more to my side of the story,” Fulbright wrote. “I wrote to a state legislator, he responded to my sincere concerns with disdain and rudeness, refused to apologize, and now folks are following his lead and seeking me out to be even more unkind. Fortunately, many people have also apologized and been warm and welcoming.”

The reference to “folks following his lead” refers to a group of commenters who have swarmed Fulbright’s website since the story went live. One such comment on the “autobiographical essay” section of her website reads:

“Congrats on making a TOTAL ass of yourself in Wyoming. ATTENTION INVASIVE PROGRESSIVE SPECIES: Stop leaving your HELLHOLES and moving to places with good people and policy and attempting to bring your brand of authortarian idiocy with you. States like Wyoming, Texas, Idaho, Arizona, Alamaba, etc…DOn’t WANT YOU. Stay the F OUT. people like you are hated for good reason.”

Fulbright wouldn’t comment on how widespread such angry responses are relative to positive responses, instead suggesting that it wouldn’t make any difference to her. “I don’t see any usefulness in mentioning how many pro versus how many con, since I think that’s not the best way to view this issue,” Fulbright wrote. “I think our focus would be more effective if we took seriously the value of civil discourse in politics -and the role of elected leaders in being examples of how public discourse should be handled.”

As to the accusation that she is an “invasive progressive species,” Fulbright actually had a perfectly innocent explanation for her presence in Wyoming, which Hunt (and so many commenters) questioned, given her political views. According to Fulbright, far from being a naive mover who didn’t understand red state culture, the move was for professional reasons, and she is already used to living in deeply conservative states.

“Our family moved to Wyoming because, as a minister, I was called to serve a wonderful congregation here,” Fulbright wrote. “I had several other choices (in other states), and chose to come to Wyoming. I am from SC and lived for more than a decade in Virginia – both very conservative states, where I often wrote to legislators. I was never treated so inappropriately by an elected official before. I think I am not alone in being astonished by the inappropriateness of Mr. Hunt’s response – or else it would not be news.”

Exterior of Rev. Fulbright’s church in Cheyenne, Wyoming (Photo credit: revaudettefulbright.com)

And did this change her approach to political activism? Not a chance. In fact, judging by her takeaway from the issue, Fulbright might well have been emboldened.

“The response by Mr. Hunt and his allies will make absolutely no difference in how I pursue my political activism going forward,” Fulbright wrote. “I think we all must lend our voice and share our concerns about those public matters we must address as a state and a nation. If we allow ourselves to be bullied into keeping silent or constraining our ideas to only those we imagine to be of like mind, we have given up the most important privilege of being members of a democratic nation.”

Rep. Hans Hunt’s Follow Up:

Wyoming State Rep. Explains ‘By All Means, Leave’ Remark to Gun Critic– But He’s Not Apologizing

Original Story:

‘By All Means, Leave’: The Amazingly Blunt Response One State Rep. Gave a Citizen Who Wrote Him Opposing Concealed Carry in Schools

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ProudCapitalist
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:49am
If she feels she “was never treated so inappropriately by an elected official before.”, there are two possible reasons. The first is she never contacted an elected official before. The second is she never contacted an elected official with a brain and a backbone. There was nothing inappropriate in the response to her. – she threatened to leave the state and was told to not let the door hit her on the way out.

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Thinman
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:48am
When did speaking the truth in plain, to the point language, become blunt and rude? Get a spine and quit whining about the lack of politically correct bs that spews from progressive mouths.

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DoOrDie
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:48am
I know beauty is supposedly from within, but damn all these liberals are ugly on the outside.

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Longslide7
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:47am
Typical
“You didn’t do what I want so YOUR the PROBLEM”
“Wyoming State Rep. Hunt is being mean to me”
“The World revolves around me”
She issued the ultimatum/threat (change WY into what I want or I will think about leaving; and I’ll say so in the PRESS!) and now that she’s been told “Fine leave” She stamping her foot and screaming. My son use to do that; when he was 3yr old.
“Was never treated so inappropriately by an elected official before.” I guess no one ever stood up to her before?
Perhaps she should return to the Liberal toilet she and her “fellow travelers” helped to create, the one she fled from? ‘BY ALL MEANS, LEAVE’

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RodT82721
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:45am
What an example of the cancer that is infesting our once great land.
Here we have a progressive, that moves to the great state of Wyoming, not known for it’s progressive ideas, more like backwards, and maybe even frontier ideas. But she came anyway.

So the newly arrived resident starts her campaign to make Wyoming more like CA, she sends of a nasty gram to her state rep, voicing her fear of guns.
This is typical behavior of liberals, they make such a mess of their own home area, they have to move to new digs, then immediately start their campaign to change the new digs to more resemble their old ones.
She was to told she could leave, if she didn’t care for our way of life, and she is offended! Not used to being told “to mind your own business”.

By the way I have enjoyed WY for the past 43 years and hope I never live long enough to see the progressives destroy this great state.

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heidihoneighbor
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:44am
YYou expect a child to ask to have candy for dinner.
If an adult behaves like a child such as Fulbright then she should expect people to show their displeasure in her selfish behavior.
she is a typical liberal and nothing more.
I currently live in the junk state people like her ruined and left.

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wrestlingwithpigs
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:42am
People like the Neverend… I mean, Reverend have a fundamental disdain for the cultures they invade. Ask the local tribes about the cultural respect and accommodations they were granted at the BIA schools run by the predecessors of this ” Reverend”. Here in New England we have endured the “Massification” of New Hampshire by more enlightened and superior Bostonians. In Maine we fondly refer to such people as “Mass-h*les” or more politely as “people from away” …like space aliens. They care not to understand, let alone assimilate into the culture they invade, they wish only to impose their cosmology and lifestyle on the benighted fools they now call neighbors.

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Ironeagle
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:42am
By all means madam leave and go back from wence you came.

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FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:40am
Ms. Fulbright,

This is not a democracy, despite your contentions. It is a republic. You, and the rest of the people in your district, are represented to the state by Mr. Hunt. You do have a voice. He heard your voice and even took the time to respond (which you should feel good about). The problem is that you have an extreme view on guns that doesn’t coincide with most of normal people living in the same district.

Take Hunt’s advice. Leave. Go to California or New York. Perhaps you will find unicorns dancing on rainbows in one of those states.

Until then, may I suggest you read the Bible…especially passages that relate to one’s right to self defense.

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blackfeather
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:39am
she stepped in it…she can write a book now.

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Beachmastermax
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:38am
“Rev. Audette Fulbright, pastor at the Unitarian Universalist Church”

She actally thinks she has the gift of pastor teacher. This is all you need to know. Run don’t walk.

Here is a passage on the coming “universalist church”.

Revalation 17:3 And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness ; and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a gold cup full of abominations and of the unclean things of her immorality, 5 and on her forehead a name was written, a mystery, “BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”

Revalation 17:15 And he said to me, “The waters which you saw where the harlot sits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.

The E c kumenicle and Em erjjing church, right there for you to see.

By the way, try posting those words spelled correctly on this site!!!!!

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- Ironeagle
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:45am
  Wow the physical discription of the woman on the beast and this nut job are uncanny.
  
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Zundfolge
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:37am
This woman epotimizes the totalatarian thinking of your average leftist/progressive/liberal/democrat/whatever-we’re-calling-them-today.

She believes that her beliefs are so superior that they should be imposed on all people so she moves someplace where she KNOWS most of the people disagree with her and then wag her finger at them and try to force her beliefs on them via the law.

If I, as a Christian Conservative were to move to San Francisco and start demanding the bathhouses be closed or that they adopt “Constitutional Carry” or that the local schools start teaching Intelligent Design, I would be run out of town on a rail (or at least told to shut up) and NOBODY on the left would come to my defense … hell I’m willing to argue that I’d deserve it for trying to force those people to live by my beliefs. But this hard core leftist shows up in Wyoming and we’re supposed to be all warm, fuzzy, tolerant and let her have her way?

Seriously lady, leave Wyoming … there are many places where you will be much happier.

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asittner
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:37am
As a citizen of the great state of Wyoming I’m proud of my state and my state rep. Wyoming is what America used to be we don’t want the progressive B.S we like our state just the way it is. Mrs. Fulbright can move 30 minutes to Fort Collins if she doesn’t like our great state and our policy.

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UsnEODDvr
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:33am
We have been wondering to where we should move…(Florida has become too blue/too welfare incentivized). Wyoming may fit the bill…..

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BlasberryStrat
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:23am
Um…Ok. “Unitarian Universalist Church”? Sooo….what does a “Universalist” do? All sit in a circle and whiten your teeth at the height of the full moon? Kinda sounds like this Pastor wannabe couldn’t get along with any main religion, so got her $39.95 internet special to be a Minister. Come on…”Unitarian Universalist”?? That sounds like something out of a bad British comedy. How bout’…..”Unconventional – Conventionalists”. You can all do the “Time Warp”.

Audette…baby…getting a response email stating it’s ok for you to leave the State, is NOT “bullying”. Now ME belittling you and your “Units” on public internet…now that’s “bullying” honey. You know, “Unitarian” sounds like you are doing something dirty to yourself every morning about 9:15. Maybe you best just lick your self…uh…inflicted wound and just move on before you embarrass yourself further. You’ve already got yourself in to a mess with the whole “Unitarian Universalist” thing. Just what is that? Do you guys sit and listen to Don Ho albums ever Sunday or what? Or is it one of those where you all wait for a certain comet to go by and then you kill yourselves? I’m not sure, but I wouldn’t be too proud of walking around proclaiming “I’m a Unit!”.

You can’t even make this stuff up! Just keeps getting better and better!

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- shorelineliz
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:44am
  Unitarian Universalists believe that the Mother, Father, Sister, Brother, God of the Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, Leprechauns, Fairies and Unicorns if they could all just unite globally in one unified circle of peace, love, and groovy stretching in a line from around the globe in one handholding exercise that the world would magically have peace, love and groovy from one end to the other and wars and all conflicts would automatically disappear if we could just? I think they believe in all that sh#t from the 70s like when that Coca Cola commercial showed all those people in a field in different ethnic backgrounds holding hands? Yeah. pretty much. a CULT. and no one. gives a dam about this woman and her “activism.” I think she is Al Gore and his masseuse’s love child from the 80s. The red **** gave it away. and the pearls. Al Gore’s masseuse always wore pearls. Poor Tipper. That is why she kicked Al’s **** to the curb. Rev. Fulbright also believe that “fracking” is causing global warming because not only did her daddy Al Gore say so but last Easter the leprechauns and the fairies appeared with the bunny and whispered it in her ear, “it is so.” Her “congregation” will all be dressing up like big giant eggs on March 31st this year and calling on the “fertility goddess” to bless the newly sprouted spring tulips.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 12:43pm
  LIZ: Thanks for the mental imagines of the ” everybody’s beautiful / we have no standards / we make no value judgements / but we want you all to be like us or else ” crowd ! Especially enjoyed Unitarians Do Easter . Interesting that Obama had the influences of Unitarianism, Islam, Marx and Reverend Wright …..explains a lot…
  
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baxter999
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:17am
Ah, the hypocrisy of the left. She talks of her right to say whatever she wants, but is unwilling to extend that right to anyone who disagrees with her. Classic liberalism. And being bigoted like most on the left, she probably can’t see that she is the one trying to take away the rights of citizens. I just hope she doesn’t come to my state.

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MainMan
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:16am
Sir do not apologize to this female, make no attempt to capitulate to her. For she means you and your state no good. You are looking at one of the biggest threats you have ever faced. Treat her as an invading army.

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Owt_Raged
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:14am
If you moved to serve people in WY through your church, then do so. Seems strange that your letter to your Rep stated that you moved there for better schools for your kids. Which story is it?
Anyway, if you want to help people, use your church, that’s why they are tax exempt. It is not the governments place or job to appease you or embrace your social beliefs.
If you don’t like the Constitution or the Bill of Rights, which created this country, where you have the freedom to express your opinion, you might want to keep looking for someplace else to live.
The US is still great because some of us understand what makes us great. It is constitutionally limited government and individual freedoms both which come with personal responsibility.
You are free to speak out, you are free to choose not to own a gun. What you are not free to do is impose your personal feelings on the rest of us.

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TheRancher
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:11am
Representative Hunt was actually quite polite with this spoiled narcissistic New Ager. You should hear what we say Out West about these spiritual vermin from Boulder, Berkley, Albany, Atlanta … wherever the hell they come from. Buying 40 acres of ranch land, building an eyesore, setting up shop in some local town and then complaining why there’s no “cultue” out here.

There’s no Unitarian or Universalist out here Lady, because this the West. That nonsense is for NYC. The West was settled by the strong. The weak died on the way and the cowards never set out for the trip. You are 100% representative of what comes afterward and settle in like ticks to live off the blood of those who fought and struggled and endured to make a life out here way the hell away from you and your kind from back in “civilization”. We came here to get AWAY from you.

You, “Reverend” Fullbright are out of your freaking mind, and need a Thorazine drip if you think crying out IN WYOMING for your style of Upper East Side symbolism has any part of the West.

It’s the WEST, Lady. Not the Church of St. John The Divine in NYC, the rootstock of all New Age madness.

See what I mean http://goo.gl/RH9aq http://goo.gl/KMdUP http://goo.gl/0GYDe http://goo.gl/O5voK

Out West we still revere the real world, the land, the hard work and all that goes with it. You, “Madame” Reverend have stepped into a hornets nest thinking the world is all goody goody and loves you.

Shaddup. And get out.

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RestoreCapitalism
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:11am
She is a minion of the left. Just like the people who have a ‘transgendered’ child they want to force upon an elementary school. It’s about changing the world to their hearts desire. Pure evil.

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txannie
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:04am
So she doesn’t plan to change her method of trying to push her agenda…good for her. But, if she plans to continue she better be ready for more of the same because I think she missed the point about why the reps response went viral so quickly. Conservatives and especially states/areas where freedom loving conservatives are prevalent are tired of these pushy, biased, ‘I know better than you stupid rednecks because I am a liberal progressive’ types coming in and trying to change things. Stay where your ideas are welcome and you won’t have any problems like this.

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FLOWNOVERandFORGOTTEN
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:03am
It isn’t that you have a different opinion causing you problems. It’s your arrogance and intolerance of the long existing societal norms that get under our skin. Again, the tolerant elitist left showing their true colors for us all to see. We must really be stupid not to see it her way.

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- barber2
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 12:35pm
  FLOWN: Agree. By their arrogance ye shall spot them ! They all want to ” change” everyone – to be just like them ! They are, in their own minds, superior . The ” good job ” generation .
  
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5XDADDY
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:03am
I’m pretty sure that she brought up the idea of leaving the state. In fact she made the point that there were others who she knew were considering leaving also in an “EXODUS” over this issue (and she apparently is their spokesperson). She now says she will not be intimidated but considers her representative of rudeness because he declared he would not be intimidated by her and he “group’s” threat. He simply said (in effect) if you feel you need to leave, then leave. He also said that he didn’t believe her threat of an exodus from the state.

Am I wrong?

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- txannie
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 2:13pm
  @5x….now see, she achieved her goal of being made to look like the victim here now. She is crying because this big bad man didn’t like what she had to say and ‘look how mean he was too me’. That is their agenda, come in where they are not welcome, start a fight, when they get the short end of the stick, cry foul. Now she’s looking for reinforcements to move in and begin the undermining of the conservative outlook of the region. It’s happening everywhere….a la ‘saul alinski, marx, hitler’ style.
  
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ABRAXUS
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:03am
She is a progressive activist or in plainer terms a terriost. By her own admission, she moved there to spread her evil agenda. She should not only leave but be driven out.

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American-first
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:55am
Very sure if i were to move to be in her church then complain about her sermon it would be different

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