Ha! My City's response to "Westboro church" coming....

[HEyHEY]

I just got this invite on facebook, there's already 311 confirmations;


So Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist church are coming to town.
You can read about Fred and his wacky beliefs over yonder: http://godhatesfags.com/

Everyone's buzzing about the same old stupid hatey-fuckwit hatemongers, with their same old, busted hate rhetoric, and they want to... encircle them with angels? Or overcome the hate with love, or something?

Boring as hell, people. (As many people have asked, why not ignore them? Because there is already another group that has decided to organise a non-satirical protest thereby giving them attention and circling them with 'angels.' Again, boring as hell.)


What I propose is to *join* the protest rather than oppose it. Let's make signs, in as close a facsimile as possible to the Phelpses', with our own dumb slogans about what God (or other gods?) might or might not want.

"GOD HATES IT WHEN YOU DON'T USE A COASTER"
"KNITTING DOOMS NATIONS TO HELL"
"GOD VOTED FOR NADER"
"PEPSI NOT COKE"
"GOD HATES YOU BECAUSE YOUR NOSE IS TOO BIG"
"ENKI SPOOGED ALL OVER THE EARTH TO MAKE YOU"

I'm sure you can do better. http://godhateseveryoneexceptforus.com/ and http://godhatesshrimp.com/ may serve to inspire you.


Sidle up to the WBC and act like you belong with them. Act confused and offended if they try and distance themselves. Join in their dumb slogan-chants, but get the words wrong. Pick a WBC partner and play the repeat-everything-you-say game with them.

Don't let up, and DON'T let them get to you. It's really easy to be provoked into a fight at these things, so keeping this up will take nerves of steel.

Let's see if we can out-absurd the most absurd people on Earth.


***NOTE***

If your sign idea is something like "GOD HATES HATE" or "JESUS IS LOVE" or "GOD THINKS HOMOPHOBIA IS HELLA WACK YOU GUYS" or some other thing which you deem to be the Bible's true message, then you are missing the point. GO JOIN THE NON-SATIRICAL RALLY INSTEAD. The idea is NOT to contradict them. The idea is to **outdo** them. We are making the WBC into participants in OUR absurdist street theatre spectacle. Let's not go ruining that with dumb ol' sincerity.

Sign-making party may precede the event, and I'll look into the feasibility of setting up a sign-making station at the protest itself.

Who's with me?

[crispini]

1. Awesome. What an excellent idea. nt

[HEyHEY]

2. I SOOO wanna make one that reads "God hates peanuts!"

With a pic of Charlie Brown

[ghostsofgiants]

3. Brilliant. Makes me wish they would come here.

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. ...

[elshiva]

7. God hates pigs.

Pork is unclean.

[Danger Mouse]

5. I love it. The best way to get to these fruitcakes...laugh at them.

Laugh in their faces. Make them ridiculous. It'll infuriate them.

[KG]

6. can't i just walk up to em and kick em in the nuts?