Super Bowl 50: Protesters use national stage to gain attention
Source: San Jose Mercury News
SANTA CLARA -- As Peyton Manning and Cam Newton practiced inside Levi's Field in the hours before Super Bowl 50, a block away, Ben Phelps stood on a thin strip of grass in front of the Santa Clara Convention Center and preached how gays would go to hell.
"There's hordes of people here that need to become Christian," said Ben Phelps, grandson of the late Fred Phelps, who founded the controversial Westboro Baptist Church.
He flew in from Topeka, Kansas, with a dozen other church members, and on Sunday, before the Super Bowl began, Phelps and dozens of other protesters stood in a cordoned off area west of the stadium and tried to persuade Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers fans to believe. With every Super Bowl comes protests designed to take advantage of the high-profile event and organizers create First Amendment zones to keep it organized.
Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/sports/ci_29488480/super-bowl-50-protesters-use-national-stage-gain
This article from my local "liberal" newspaper doesn't discuss the social justice protesters (who addressed affordable housing and police brutality among other issues) yet includes photos of them with captions, and this article focuses mostly on the frickin' Westrollboro Baptists as well as some anti-Muslim nutjobs.
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