Tucson plans an "angel action" to block Westboro Baptist funeral pickets

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Funeral pickets to be met by 'angels'
By the CNN Wire Staff
January 11, 2011 9:04 a.m. EST

"For something like this to happen in Tucson was a really big shock to us all," she said. "Our nightmare happened when we saw Westboro Baptist Church was going to picket the funerals."

They're planning an "angel action" -- with 8- by 10-foot "angel wings" worn by participants and used to shield mourners from pickets. The actions were created by Coloradan Romaine Patterson, who was shocked to find the Topeka church and its neon signs outside the 1999 funeral of Matthew Shepherd, a young gay man beaten and left on a fence to die in Laramie, Wyoming.

"We want to surround them, in a nonviolent way, to say that our community is united," Gilmer said. "We're a peaceful haven.

"You don't mess with Tucson," said Gilmer, 26, who described it as "a little dot of blue in a sea of red."

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/11/arizona.funeral.westboro/index.html?hpt=T1

[emulatorloo]

1. I want the media to shine the light on Westboro Baptist Church's picketing a little girls funeral

and these people who are standing up to them.

It is encouraging that CNN has it on their website.