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« Reply #30 on: April 16, 2014, 02:41:18 pm »

Westboro Baptist Church to picket funeral of Kansas Jewish center shooting victims

The Westboro Baptist Church...announced Wednesday that it would picket the funeral of two of the three victims of Sunday’s shooting attack at a Jewish Community Center in Overland Park. The church, which is considered “homophobic, anti-Semitic hate group” by the Anti-Defamation League, is infamous for picketing the funerals of American servicemen killed in Afganistan and Iraq and for its vocal anti-homosexual position.   

http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/Westboro-Baptist-Church-to-picket-funeral-of-Kansas-Jewish-center-shooting-victims-348638

Come to think of it, this is the very first time I've heard them picket funerals of Jewish people.

Yeah, doesn't look like they picket funerals of Muslims, Mormons, or Catholics.
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« Reply #31 on: August 15, 2014, 06:06:03 pm »

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/15/westboro-baptist-church-robin-williams_n_5682288.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592
8/15/14
Westboro Baptist Church's Plan To Protest Robin Williams' Funeral Thwarted By Love

The Westboro Baptist Church is trying to spread its vile message of intolerance with a disgraceful protest of Robin Williams' funeral, but Planting Peace is not letting the hate take root.

Williams was found dead in his Tiburon, California, home on Monday. His funeral is set to be a "very private" ceremony in San Francisco near his home. In spite of the actor's family's request for privacy and respect, WBC announced plans to picket Williams' funeral on Aug. 11 after labeling him a "Fag Pimp."

Planting Peace, a nonprofit organization founded in 2004 with a mission to spread love and equality around the globe, is set on challenging WBC's planned protest with a fundraiser. (The group also owns the Equality House, which is situated directly adjacent to the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas.)

"Robin Williams played many different roles in so many people’s lives, and giving back to others was at the top of that list," Aaron Jackson, co-founder of Planting Peace told The Huffington Post in an email Friday. "His appeal crossed generational boundaries. I was personally impacted when I heard of his passing. This is a small gesture to honor his legacy and the difference he made to so many."

"When the WBC announced they were protesting Robin’s funeral, we felt like launching a fundraiser for a charity Robin loved would be the perfect way to honor him and counteract the message of hate and intolerance that the WBC continues to convey," Jackson said.

The proceeds from the fundraiser will go to St. Jude Children's Hospital, an organization close to the late actor's heart. So far, Planting Peace has raised more than $1,000 of a $30,000 goal via a Crowd Rise initiative.
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« Reply #32 on: November 13, 2014, 07:38:51 pm »

http://news.yahoo.com/texas-am-aggies-westboro-protest-201835347.html
Texas A&M students drown out antigay Westboro protesters with 'yell practice'
11/13/14

Students at Texas A&M University rallied to drown out a protest organized by the Westboro Baptist Church members this week over the school's acceptance of gays.

Earlier this week, protesters from the Topeka-based group who had swarmed the campus were met by more than 100 students outside the school's student center in College Station. The Aggies countered Westboro's antigay messages with love, holding signs that read "God Hates No One" and "All You Need Is Love."

"Their moral compasses have been broken by their parents, their teachers and their preachers," Steve Drain, a longtime Westboro member, told KBTX-TV. "From the time they were born, they were taught lies such as God loves everybody, and it's OK to be gay, and it's OK to divorce your wife and remarry another one."

The group later traveled to Houston to protest Mayor Anise Parker, who is openly gay.

In a press release, Westboro — which is notorious for picketing the funerals of U.S. soldiers with antigay signs that claim the deaths are God's punishment for America's tolerance of homosexuality — said it was protesting the school's nondiscrimination practices as well as its love of football.

Fittingly, dozens of students also decided to hold their traditional "midnight yell practice," which is normally held the night before Texas A&M football games, at 8 a.m. to drown out the protesters.

"Their message is just one of pure hate, and it's not something we want people to listen to," Elyssa De Caprio, who organized the yell practice, told KBTX.

It's not the first time a Westboro demonstration has been overshadowed by a counterprotest.

Following the death of Westboro founding pastor Fred Phelps in March, Westboro protesters who had gathered outside a Lorde concert in Kansas City, Mo., were greeted by demonstrators with banners that read "Sorry for your loss" and "Live your life and be awesome."

"We realized that it wasn't so much about antagonizing them," Megan Coleman, who helped create one of the counterprotest signs, told KSHB-TV. "We are here for people who need that message and need that positivity."

In 2011, the Foo Fighters performed outside before their concert in Kansas City to counter a planned Westboro demonstration.

"God Bless America! It takes all kinds," frontman Dave Grohl said. "I don't care if you're black or white or purple or green, whether you're Pennsylvanian or Transylvanian, Lady Gaga or Lady Antebellum. Men loving women and women loving men and men loving men and women loving women — you all know we like to watch that. But what I'd like to say is, God Bless America, y'all!"

And last year, a 5-year-old girl who set up a lemonade stand across the street from Westboro's headquarters in Topeka raised more than $10,000 in the name of peace.
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