Metalheads with kazoos drown out Westboro Baptist Church at Capitol

[G_j]

https://www.virginiamercury.com/blog-va/metalheads-with-kazoos-drown-out-westboro-baptist-church-at-capitol/?fbclid=IwAR3SLZFpogLnr7c2rlaAYykKSEw43AcwVh3pWyb77SNRKZn-XmP0YdrcpG8

A couple hundred metalheads with kazoos converged on the state Capitol on Monday morning to defend one of their own by drowning out a small group of Westboro Baptist Church members.

The Kansas-based hate group said it came to Virginia in part to demonstrate against Del. Danica Roem, D-Manassas, who is the state’s first and only openly transgender lawmaker.

Roem also happens to be a metal singer, which prompted Richmond-based singer Randy Blythe, who fronts the well-known band Lamb of God and considers Roem a friend, to organize what he called a “counter-party.”

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“I set out to make the best out of a bad situation by doing what a good candidate for office should do,” she said in an email last week. “Flip the script on something negative by raising money off of the response without amplifying the original negativity and driving a unifying message about love conquering hate.”

[Sherman A1]

1. Creative

I like this!

[Ohiogal]

2. LOVE IT!

[Initech]

3. I have newfound respect for Lamb Of God because of this!

[OriginalGeek]

9. I was just gonna say the same thing

I never liked LoG that much and that opinion didn't change when I saw them open for Slayer last summer* but I dig this. I can support him politically even if I don't buy their records.



*No question they are a talented group and the people around me loved their set which was played well and exuberantly but I just don't much like their songs. They don't move me musically.

[niyad]

4. and here I had just been thinking we had not heard anything about those hate-filled maggots

at wbc in a while. pity.

[shenmue]

5. Yes

[G_j]

6. ---

[2naSalit]

7. I love it!

The DC order of the Deranged Buffoons!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Damn!

I was hoping there was a video of it.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

10. Love!

[ROB-ROX]

11. THIS IS TRULY GOD GIVEN MUSIC

This must really amp up the ones who were shown up with music.......The Baptist will roast in hell for their EVIL acts against good people....

[littlemissmartypants]

12. Glorious! nt