Vassar Students Counter Westboro Protest With LGBT Fundraiser

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February 12, 2013 By Camille Beredjick

The Westboro Baptist Church, known for picketing the funerals of fallen soldiers and proclaiming freely that “God hates fags,” has announced that their next protest will be held at Vassar College on February 28th.

Vassar is a liberal arts school known for its tolerance and acceptance of LGBT people, which might have been what prompted the WBC to issue the following message:

“…warn the students, faculty, and alumni that the satanic policies of this nation, especially those of the colleges and universities, are causing God to pour His wrath out upon this nation. Doomed American academics fancy themselves to be smarter than God. They promote the fag agenda with all their might and mock the word of God and His messengers at every turn.”

But Vassar students have done them one better.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/02/12/vassar-students-counter-westboro-protest-with-lgbt-fundraiser/

[cbayer]

1. While I am glad to see the Vassar students making this into something positive, I

hate to see Westboro get any publicity at all.