Let Westboro Baptist have their hate speech. We'll smother it with peace.

[kpete]

Let Westboro Baptist have their hate speech. We'll smother it with peace.
By Romaine Patterson
Friday, March 4, 2011

When I was a child, my mother taught me that if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. The first time I encountered the gay-bashing members of Westboro Baptist Church was in 1998, when they picketed the funeral of my close friend Matthew Shepard, who was beaten and left to die tied to a fence in rural Wyoming.

What most shocked me was that, even as I attended the funeral of someone who had been murdered in a hate crime, I hadn't realized how deeply some people hate.

It wasn't until I saw those neon-colored signs with their ugly words against the snowy Wyoming landscape that I understood what my community was up against.

When the Rev. Fred Phelps and his parishioners came back to Laramie the next year to protest at the trials of the men who murdered Matthew, they were in for a bit of a surprise. Several friends and I led a counter-protest, dressed as angels, silently encircling them, our huge outstretched wings blocking their vicious signs from view.

the rest:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030402461.html

Romaine Patterson co-hosts the daily talk show "Derek and Romaine" for Sirius XM Radio and is the author of "The Whole World Was Watching: Living in the Light of Matthew Shepard."

[RKP5637]

1. Recommend!!! n/t

[ProgressiveProfessor]

2. Patriot Guard Riders have been doing that for some times

Nothing more peaceful than a revved up Harley at some point

[tularetom]

3. Probably the most effective counter to the Westboro Babtist creeps

Although it lacks the momentary gratification that would be achieved by pounding their feeble brains into mush.

[GKirk]

8. I've been to one military funeral

and if those lunatics had shown up it would have been extremely difficult to not have become violent towards them.

[customerserviceguy]

10. Eventually, they're going to show up at the wrong funeral

And nobody will remember having seen anything...

[nxylas]

12. There's a practical as well as a moral reason not to do that

Because if you do, they'll sue you, and since the Phelps cult is full of lawyers, you'll most likely end up paying out of your pocket for them to travel to more funerals where they can spread their hate speech. Rinse and repeat.

[Kurovski]

4. 60 or so surrounding them shouting"Go home" has apparently worked in the recent past.

[spanone]

5. amen

[Shagbark Hickory]

6. Where do they get the funding to keep at it? (the WB inbreds I'm talking about)

Sooner or later they have to run out of money, right?

[walldude]

9. Some of them are lawyers... that's where they get the money

they have a practice in Topeka and apparently they have a track record of winning cases so they get a lot of business.

[Shagbark Hickory]

13. WHAT?!? They're LAWYERS

Are you freakin kidding me?
How did they make it through law school?

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. I like Landover Baptist Church they are the real saviors of our lord

For Example

The Secular Humanist Bible Quiz

The Lord placed two types of people on this, His only planet that matters: (1) Those who critically analyze and evaluate all available information, making decisions, including those involving their belief systems, based on thought, facts and reason; and (2) Folks who have been blessedly spared such tedium.


The Bible Logic Quiz
Find out why Jesus burns people in Hell!

You can take the quizzes and even join the forums!


quizzes
http://www.landoverbaptist.org/quizlist.html


The forums rock for the savior of the south and republicans

http://www.landoverbaptist.net/

Westboro baptist is just a sideshow of our church.
join us on Sundays heathens
http://www.landoverbaptist.org/

[customerserviceguy]

11. If peaceful Muslims are always hounded

to disavow radical Muslims, why aren't Baptists constantly asked to distance themselves forcibly and often from these so-called Baptists?

[Homer Wells]

14. Proudly Kicking and Recommending this!! N/T

[The Nexus]

15. It will get to the point where WBC WILL suffer legit casualties

I guarantee it.