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Country's Vince Gill takes on Westboro Baptist Church protesters
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-vince-gill-westboro-baptist-church-protest-20130911,0,222047.story
(UPI Photo/Michael Bush)
By Randy Lewis
September 11, 2013, 8:09 a.m.
Multiple Grammy Award-winning country singer Vince Gill went eye to eye and nose to nose, stopping short of tooth for a tooth with members of the provocative Westboro Baptist Church, who protested his concert Sunday in Kansas City, Mo., taunting him because he had divorced and remarried.
In a confrontation captured on a 55-second video that’s gone viral on YouTube, Gill tells the protesters, “I came to see what hate looked like.”
One woman asked Gill, “What are you doing with another man’s wife?” referring to his marriage in 2000 to Christian pop singer Amy Grant after she divorced her husband, musician Gary Chapman, in 1999, the year after Gill divorced his wife, singer Janis Oliver. “Don’t you know that divorce plus remarriage equals adultery? Jesus said that.”
Gill responded, “He also said a lot of stuff about forgiveness, about grace. You guys don’t have any of that.”
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