Bigoted Kansas Baptists Pick Latest Target: Dead West Virginia Miners

[babylonsister]

http://washingtonindependent.com/81791/bigoted-kansas-baptists-pick-latest-target-dead-west-virginia-miners

Bigoted Kansas Baptists Pick Latest Target: Dead West Virginia Miners
By Mike Lillis 4/9/10 11:38 AM


Just when you thought the story couldn’t get more infuriating, there comes word that a handful of members of the Westboro Baptist Church have arrived in West Virginia.

The Kansas-based independent hate group — best known for picketing military funerals with signs proclaiming the soldiers’ deaths to be God’s punishment for the country’s tolerance of gays — has found a new target: the miners killed in Monday’s blast. From The Charleston Gazette:

Only six Westboro pickets showed up in front of the Capitol, including two men, one woman and three young children. They held up signs proclaiming: “America Is Doomed,” “Thank God for Dead Miners,” “God Hates Your Tears,” “God Hates West Virginia” and “God Hates You.”

The story ends well. More than 300 locals came out in a peaceful counter-protest that swamped the small group of bigots.

Local people peacefully overwhelmed the Westboro group. They carried their own signs, including: “I Love Everyone” and “God Bless Our Troops and Veterans.”

Others signs had humorous messages: “This is a Sign” and “God Hates Signs.”

“I think it is amazing the whole community came out for this,” said one local.

[RoseMead]

1. A bunch of my friends were part of that protest

Very proud of my fellow West Virginians for standing up to the hate! :yourock:

[hobbit709]

2. Those loons are no more Baptist than I am, no matter what they call themselves.

[MerryBlooms]

3. Here's one clip from the day -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoZK0IvE-Z8

Peace and love won this battle.

[NobleCynic]

4. I love the Westboro Baptist Church.

Rationality has no greater recruiter.

[OneBlueSky]

5. Phelps will picket ANYTHING where he can get media coverage . . .

it really has nothing to do with his so-called "beliefs" . . . it's all about the publicity he can garner by being as outrageous as possible . . . and he can be pretty damned outrageous . . .

the best solution to Fred Phelps is to ignore him . . . as long as the stupid press continues to cover his demonstrations, they'll just encourage him to keep it up . . . if they just ignored him, he'd dry up and go away, since there would be no payoff for him . . .