Mormon missionaries who approached a lesbian couple’s home quickly turned away when they spotted an LGBTQ-friendly doormat.
The rainbow-framed doormat read: ‘Gayest place in town.’
Jamie Foust, 28, and her wife Melissa, 32, bought the doormat at Target in June because they found it amusing. Two months later, their doorbell camera recorded two missionaries walking up to their home.
The short video shows the two men in dress shirts and ties getting to the front door. One of them reads the ‘gayest’ part of the doormat aloud. ‘Nope,’ is the next word heard in the clip, and the pair leave. Foust shared the clip on TikTok on August 24.
‘My wife and I recently got a new door mat. It was a great investment. It says “gayest place in town” and has the added benefit of keeping religious zealots from knocking on our door to tell us about their god,’ wrote Foust in the caption, along with an emoji of a face with tears of joy.
Foust believes the missionaries departed because they figured she and her wife were ‘beyond help’.
‘Hopefully they’ll leave us alone now,’ she said.
Foust added that missionaries ‘scared’ her when she was a kid.
She said she does not plan to remove the $10 doormat.
‘I’m going to have to buy a new one so when this one gets old I’ll have another one,’ Foust told Kennedy News and Media.
Foust’s TikTok post had garnered more than 871,000 likes and over 8,600 comments as of Tuesday afternoon.
Some TikTok users joked about the clip.
‘Isn’t their job to “save” you? They failed the “mission!!”‘ one user wrote.
Another commented: ‘Remember that bible story where they’d put blood on the doors to prevent that angel from taking first borns? This like that.’
But some viewers defended the missionaries.
‘Missionaries are such nice people,’ a user wrote. ‘It’s heartbreaking to see people mistreat them. They’re not pushy, at all!’
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