I’m picturing Tad in a beret and smock for this one…

The Daily Sentinel of Grand Junction, CO, reports that a local story may be featured on the show.

Library on notice: ‘Colbert Report’ may pay visit

A display in the Mesa County Library commenting on the morality of homosexuality, adultery and divorce has attracted the attention of the American Civil Liberties Union and even Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report.”

Under the name “Christians for Healthy Families,” Mesa County resident Carol Anderson created the display, which quotes multiple Bible verses, in response to a pro-gay marriage photographic exhibit displayed in the same place last August called “Love Makes a Family.”

After The Daily Sentinel’s Feb. 3 story on the display, producers of “The Colbert Report” took notice after the story spread on the Internet. Nicole Savini, the show’s field producer, said Thursday the show may be interested in doing a segment on the display.

But, she said she didn’t know for sure if the show will do a feature or when it might air.

Meanwhile, the ACLU is investigating Anderson’s display after receiving a complaint from a Grand Junction lawyer. …

Read the entire story here.

Even assuming that ‘Gays + ACLU + Library’ is a permanent search item on their Google news alerts, this story would mean nothing to the show’s producers if not for the colorful citizenry of Mesa County. Reading the original story we can only imagine the masterpiece the ‘Report’ could create given this palette of characters:

Mesa County Library exhibit chides gays, says divorce a sin.
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Christians for Healthy Families’ exhibit compares marriage to a bowl that’s filled with blue paint, representing a man, and pink paint, representing a woman. When mingled in the bowl, the paints turn purple, showing that a man and a woman become “one” when they’re married, the display says.

But when two paints of the same color mingle, nothing happens, and because they have no choice but to mingle outside the bowl, well, it makes “a big mess.”

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Shari Daly-Miller, a local artist and president of Western Equality, said she applauds the library for encouraging a discussion on the issue.

“As an artist, I see that the creator gave us all the colors of the spectrum,” she said. “A rainbow of diversity makes the world beautiful.”

But, she said, “Gay, bisexual, lesbian and transgender families already exist. You may not care for a particular color, so don’t put it in your painting, but it’s not going away.”

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Edit (09/01/07): The Denver Post has an article on this as well.

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