Westboro
I'm a little surprised at the outrage Westboro Baptist Church incites. Don't get me wrong, they're horrible, terrible people for promoting hate and small-mindedness. It's just that their performances are almost rather comical. To my knowledge, they remain nonviolent. Their signage betrays a total lack of graphic design knowledge, their website is pathetic and easily prone to hackers, and their message lacks originality. At worse, they're a nuisance. And yet, everyone from the KKK to the military to the political left is aligned against them. How they've risen to public attention baffles me, frankly. Their 15 minutes of fame should have expired years ago.
To me this doesn't mark a threat.
Far more worrying are the likes of NOM, anti-abortion groups, anti-Islam Christianists, anti-Christian Islamists, and folks like Mike Huckabee whose smooth intonations and quasi-rational arguments are designed to betray their overt bigotry.
I have never been in the presence of a Westboro protest, but I think I'd actually be relatively amused.
Also...I have no idea why I'm think of this right before the Christmas holiday.
To me this doesn't mark a threat.
Far more worrying are the likes of NOM, anti-abortion groups, anti-Islam Christianists, anti-Christian Islamists, and folks like Mike Huckabee whose smooth intonations and quasi-rational arguments are designed to betray their overt bigotry.
I have never been in the presence of a Westboro protest, but I think I'd actually be relatively amused.
Also...I have no idea why I'm think of this right before the Christmas holiday.