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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-11 09:58 PM
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Thread for anti-Westboro "Baptist" Cult signs
Edited on Sat Mar-12-11 09:58 PM by Ken Burch
Obviously, now that they have the RIGHT to torment grieving families, we need to be even more vigilant in blocking them from the sight of those families.

We need signs to hold up to resist their poison, and this is meant to be a thread in which people can suggest phrases for those signs(also, if anybody knows how to create a template for the "Hate Stripes" background on the WBC's signage, it would be nice to post that here so we could create insta-signs using their own visuals as a weapon against them.

Here's my first few suggestions for signs:

1) GOD HATES YOUR GRAPHICS!

2) MATTHEW 25, MOTHERFUCKERS!

3) JESUS IS BORED WITH YOU!

4) HEY, PHELPS KIDS! YOUR PASTOR-DADDY IS THE CRYPT-KEEPER!


(add yours below. We outnumber these haters, and we can out-sign them as well.)
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Luminous Animal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-11 10:22 PM
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1. I think it would be a bad idea, at a funeral, to carry a protest sign to protest the assholes.
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-11 10:35 PM
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4. The idea would be to face the Phelpstapo and face AWAY from the funeral
And, obviously, you'd ask permission from the families first.
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Rocknrule Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-11 10:24 PM
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2. I think this guy has the right idea
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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-11 10:29 PM
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3. The Angel Wings are a better idea - surround them and hide their hate
From everyone else. Do not return hate with hate, it is not worth the cost to you.
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Luminous Animal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-11 12:55 AM
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5. Exactly. I hope the angel wings folks realize that the Phelps' bring some HUGE
signs.
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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-11 11:16 PM
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7. The Angel wings are HUGE - 8 by 10 feet according to CNN
"Gilmer and others are planning an "angel action" -- with 8-by-10-foot "angel wings" worn by participants to shield mourners from picketers. Angel actions were created by Coloradan Romaine Patterson, who was shocked to find the Topeka church and its multicolored signs outside the 1999 funeral of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man beaten and left on a fence to die in Laramie, Wyoming."
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/11/arizona.funeral.westboro/

The only photos I could find were on a private blog so I did not want to link to them or "borrow" them, but they have what seem to be wire frames with cloth hanging over them. One story talked about using sound proofing material to help block the noise. The Westboro signs are puny compared to these wings!
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Mojeoux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-11 01:09 AM
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6. If I was rich, I would fund an Angel Patrol!!
Similar to the Angel wing scene in the Mathew Shepard story.
I would recruit young strong STILTING Angel kids, "flying" around the country, where ever the Hate Church appears!! With the stilts, they would be even taller!

*Sigh* I can dream, yes?
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