There goes the neighborhood...
So apparently the Westboro Baptist Church is going to be protesting in my city next week outside City Hall because we dared to have a gay man on our (gasp!) local Human Rights Commission.
And then, for some reason, they're going to protest at a local high school. Namely, the one I graduated from way back when, in the class of 2003.
Mom already told Dad that no, he couldn't go to the inevitable counter-protest. The reason he would like to go is because it's his chance to make a few obscene hand gestures at them for their disrespect to military families. Dad was a twenty-year veteran of the Marine Corp, and few things get his hackles up like the stunts they pull. But Mom said no.
As for me, I am sorely tempted to go down there in counter-protest and hold up a really big sign that says I'M AN AGNOSTIC - BUY ME A BEER. Either that, or GOD HATES FIGS. Although I don't want to be the one to tell them that their book has a typo - God just really has it in for Newtons, ya know.
Also, did you guys know that the KKK actually came out one time to counter-protest against these guys? And they're like, "You do not disrespect the military. YOU. DO. NOT." I'm (not really) sorry, but when the freakin' KKK says you're a bunch of nutjobs? YOU HAVE ERRED. Also it sort of weirds me out in a way that I can now say I've agreed with the KKK on something.
Mostly, I just hope that their stupid is not contagious. Or maybe they won't show up. I would be okay with that. Go preach your hatred somewhere else. We're not interested.
And then, for some reason, they're going to protest at a local high school. Namely, the one I graduated from way back when, in the class of 2003.
Mom already told Dad that no, he couldn't go to the inevitable counter-protest. The reason he would like to go is because it's his chance to make a few obscene hand gestures at them for their disrespect to military families. Dad was a twenty-year veteran of the Marine Corp, and few things get his hackles up like the stunts they pull. But Mom said no.
As for me, I am sorely tempted to go down there in counter-protest and hold up a really big sign that says I'M AN AGNOSTIC - BUY ME A BEER. Either that, or GOD HATES FIGS. Although I don't want to be the one to tell them that their book has a typo - God just really has it in for Newtons, ya know.
Also, did you guys know that the KKK actually came out one time to counter-protest against these guys? And they're like, "You do not disrespect the military. YOU. DO. NOT." I'm (not really) sorry, but when the freakin' KKK says you're a bunch of nutjobs? YOU HAVE ERRED. Also it sort of weirds me out in a way that I can now say I've agreed with the KKK on something.
Mostly, I just hope that their stupid is not contagious. Or maybe they won't show up. I would be okay with that. Go preach your hatred somewhere else. We're not interested.