I'm proud of Gunn High School and Stanford Univesity

[Ardent15]

On one side of Arastradero Road, the signs read "God hates you." On the other side, they declared "God hates hate."

Five protesters from the Topeka, Kan.-based Westboro Baptist Church came to Palo Alto's Gunn High School and Stanford's Taube Hillel House on Friday morning to espouse the anti-gay, anti-Semitic vitriol for which they're known. They hurled blame for the cluster of Gunn student suicides on "cursed Bible-ignorant rebels" whose parents "taught them lies belched forth from the bowels of hell ..."

At both Gunn and Stanford, hundreds of students, staff and community members turned out to counter the protesters with messages of love and tolerance.

"They're sharing hate all over the place and we're going to show it doesn't affect us," said 16-year-old Gunn sophomore Ilya Ryzhik.

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_14295757?source=most_emailed

This is in my area. Thank you to the students and teachers who kept their cool as these monsters spouted their evil.

[SeattleGirl]

1. The only thing "belched forth from the bowels of hell..."

are the members of the Westboro Baptist Church.

Good on those students!

[RufusTFirefly]

2. K & R for my former stomping ground n/t