New Scenery Across From Westboro Church

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MT @TannerGlaves Westboro Baptist Church: House Across From Westboro church Gets a Rainbow Pride Paint Job - @Gawker http://gawker.com/5991291/the-house-across-from-westboro-baptist-is-getting-a-rainbow-pride-paint-job-right-now …


. . . house painting updated below in post #19! (thanks, LeftofObama)



. . . expanded story(from Initech), here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022535139

[Zorra]

1. That's is one totally clever

color scheme!

(Well, somebody had to say it)

[caledesi]

30. Amen to that Z! nt

[Mnemosyne]

2. One of the commenters claims Westboro is just a regular church that actually practices what they

preach.

[Arugula Latte]

3. Brave folks.

[truebluegreen]

4. I salute them...

but Westboro's antics are designed to provoke an anti-civil rights response (where the offenders can then be sued) so I'm guessing they are well aware of what retaliation could cost them.

heh

[TommyCelt]

6. The WBC aren't dangerous, they're LOUD.

There are what, 120+ Phelps family/WBC members? They are a handful of extremely loud social pariahs from which even the KKK keeps its PR distance. I want to see a small city of these pop up around the WBC compound!!!

[eggplant]

24. +1

Yup. They only care about making noise, having their rights stepped on, and then profiting from it. Hucksters, the lot of them.

The best way to deal with them is to laugh at them and then ignore them.

The real threats are the ones that aren't out there protesting, but plotting real hate crimes.

[freshwest]

41. 120 of them? Gosh, I didn't think there were more than a dozen, at most.

Are they all related to each other?

[RedstDem]

5. love it

priceless

[Plucketeer]

7. GOD HATES

Westboro Baptists!

[snooper2]

8. Looking good, but they should have followed the color spectrum correctly

Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet

It takes the form of a multicoloured arc, with red on the outside and violet on the inside. Even though a rainbow spans a continuous spectrum of colours, traditionally the full sequence of colours is most commonly cited as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. It is commonly thought that indigo was included due to the different religious connotations of the numbers six and seven at the time of Isaac Newton's work on light, despite its lack of scientific significance and the poor ability of humans to distinguish colours in the blue portion of the visual spectrum.

[eShirl]

12. that's what I thought, but maybe theyre not done yet

and have time to correct it

[CrispyQ]

14. Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet

Rinse Out Your Gondola Before Inviting Visitors!

Because of that sentence, I was the only one in junior high science class to name all the colors & in the right order.

[xxqqqzme]

28. I learned

Roy G. Biv

[valerief]

44. Run Out Your Gay-Bashing Idiots Vividly.

[CrispyQ]

45. DUzy!

Nicely done!

[valerief]

46. Thank you, thank you. I rather liked it myself. nt

[yellowcanine]

18. Its close enough - they are putting blue below the green, just need red on top yet.

There needs to be some room for artistic license. I think even the Phelps Gang will get the point.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

29. Here it is a little further along.

[snooper2]

33. there we go

[progressoid]

36. Too cool!

[yellowcanine]

9. One poster got his panties in a wad because the buyer "took advantage of the seller" - 81 K for a

2 bedroom house in Topeka across from the Phelps Gang. Either he is totally whacked or he is completely unaware of the reality of real estate.

[eppur_se_muova]

10. Or perhaps having the wrong neighbors drives down property values ?

Seriously, who would want to live near Phelps ?

[yellowcanine]

16. Exactly. 2 bedroom. Topeka KS. Across from Phelps Gang. Not quite Beverly Hills.

He probably could have gotten the house for a lot less if he had been willing to walk away - that was my point.

[eppur_se_muova]

32. Ah. You were suggesting it was too HIGH. Mea culpa. nt

[snooper2]

17. 81K for that house in Topeka!

LOL...

I'd rather get 3 acres and a double wide

[edbermac]

11. A little yardwork would make that house look even better.

[bigtree]

13. splrfff!

[ismnotwasm]

15. LOL!

Edit, I've always wanted to do topiary, but my neighbor across the street is a nice little old lady, I'd have to settle for a bunny or something.

[LeftofObama]

19. Here's an updated picture of the house...

[sibelian]

21. My external gay self says:

"YAAAAAAYYYY!"

My internal gay self says "Yes, ok, wonderful, but UUUUUUGGH!!! Oh well, at least it wasn't pink."

[redwitch]

25. I think it's pretty.

And I love what it stands for!

[sibelian]

38. Well, I certainly love what it stands for.

[Lithos]

23. Gorgeous...

What else are they going to do with this house?

L-

[freshwest]

40. Close up of the porch with a picture window:

[titanicdave]

20. How Cool Is That??

The updated picture really brings it home......I hope that so called "church" just dissolves into history

[Lucky Luciano]

22. LOL!!! nt

[AndyA]

26. One thing for certain: There will be a lot more love in that striped house

than there will be at the church across the street.

[OverBurn]

27. That's is awesome, but I'd be afraid the nut jobs will burn it down.

[Phentex]

35. I agree. It's a nice idea...

but they are bound to upset those wackos across the street.

[truebluegreen]

42. I wouldn't worry too much about the nut jobs across the street.

Their whole schtick is about provoking civil rights violations against themselves so that they can sue.

I'm sure they are well aware of the possible consequences if they should violate someone else's...it could put them out of business, which would be a crying shame.

[VA_Jill]

31. Love it!

This just made my day. I hope it gives Fred apoplectic fits every time he looks out his window. Shirley and Margie too!

[mountain grammy]

34. mmm we have to paint our house this year, just thinking......

But my little RW, anti regulation town has a color code. Such good Republicans. Whenever a local teabagger gripes to me about "job killing government regulations" I say, look at the regulations for our little town of 400 year round residents and nothng but regulations hating GOP on this town board.

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37. k

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39. .

[SoapBox]

43. Hilarious! CHECK the link...the house pic is updated!

Absolutely hilarious.