Westboro Baptist Church to picket American University for 45 minutes

My favorite part about this: “The group expects to accomplish this feat in under an hour.”  The feat?  To

“give your children an opportunity to see what truth looks like, the face of what they were entitled to have from every adult that ever touched their lives! Instead, you hateful parents & brutish teachers broke their moral compasses! Now they beg for some truth from the humble servants of WBC. They will know what their God requires of them & will not be able to plead ignorance any longer.”

All I can say is that Westboro Baptist has absolutely no idea what they’re in for or what they’re up against.  A good percentage of the student population is either gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual and an even larger percentage of students are allies.  In my almost three years at AU, I have never once heard of an instance of anti-gay hate crimes or even slurs.  Correct me if I’m wrong here – but even if I am, it must not have been too major which in itself says a lot.  I’m looking forward to seeing the anti-protest that will form, and I guarantee all of you that it will be at least ten times as large as the Westboro Baptist gathering.

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