Westboro Baptist Church says it will picket Alaska Native Heritage Center

[Steerpike]

Source: Anchorage Daily News

Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, recently announced plans to picket the Alaska Native Heritage Center on Sunday, June 1, a move that quickly triggered talk of a counterprotest.In a flyer published online Sunday, the Westboro Baptist Church said it would send protesters to the educational and cultural center in Muldoon at 8:45 a.m. because, "God hates your idols." "There is nothing appealing or holy about the 'heritage' of the eleven 'distinct cultures' or 'diverse population' of Alaska," the flyer said. In response to the Anchorage picket, Alaskans launched a Facebook group Monday afternoon. Within two hours, it had more than 100 members and preliminary discussions swirled around a counterprotest with drums, dancing and song.



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Geez Louise! I thought I was well away from these creeps.....

[Ken Burch]

1. Will they have "God Hates Redskins" signs?

Or maybe "Elizabeth Peratrovich is Burning In Hell"?



What brought this on...and who's paying for all those Kansas City-to-Anchorage plane tickets?

[Steerpike]

2. who knows whats going through their little insect brains!

Something about worshiping false idols...

[Ken Burch]

4. Guessed they missed the "95% of Alaska Natives are Christians" thing.

[Ken Burch]

3. They're also going to picket the Indy 500 that same weekend, they say.

What's that about..."God Hates Danica Patrick"?

[AlbertCat]

5. Hey, god may hate fags and idols....

.... but EVERYBODY hates the WBC!

[RKP5637]

11. +++ 1,000 +++ n/t

[treestar]

6. So Fred dying hasn't meant they are losing steam

[bluedigger]

7. This is their stupidist move yet.

Do they not realize these people have a lot of friends in places like... Kansas?

I predict drum circles on their front lawns.

[nomorenomore08]

8. They certainly are trained experts in the art of stupidism...

[Arkansas Granny]

9. A counter protest and media coverage just plays right into their plans.

They want attention and a chance to cry that their 1st amendment rights are being denied so they can file a lawsuit. That's their game and as long as others play into it, they will keep it up.

[RKP5637]

12. Too bad SCOTUS failed in making a ruling that might stop assholes like this from profiting over

trampling on others. I think Canada, for example, has a system that prevents this crap.

[groundloop]

14. Yep, we could learn a thing or two from Canada

But we refuse to because we're better than Canada. ( )

[A Simple Game]

10. It would be a shame if they missed their flight and had to walk home. n/t

[Wolf Frankula]

13. But God Loves the Hells' Angels

You notice the WBC never protests them. I wonder why.

Wolf

[Liberal_in_LA]

17. fear of getting their asses kicked

[lunasun]

15. Alaska & Indy 500...have they decided to travel to more exciting places than funerals on daddy's $ ?

[Trillo]

16. What a self-revealing quote,

"God hates...."