Rutgers United against hate vs. westboro baptist church - repost this and make it Viral
On October 28th 2009, The Westboro Baptist Church, owners of the website godhatesfags.com targeted the Rutgers Hillel Center for a demonstration of intolerance and hate. Upon hear of this, Rutgers Hillel scheduled a counter protest event called Rutgers United against Hate.
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Instead of feeding into the conflict that WBBC was looking to provoke, Rutgers United Against Hate planned to make a statement about tolerance, love, and fellowship.
On the day of the protest, the church that stood across from the Hillel center, the church that would have stood behind the WBBC, decorated itself with rainbow flags and flags declaring the love and tolerance of God. Realizing that their message of hate would get lost against the backdrop of divine love and tolerance, WBBC moved down to the next street corner, where they were barely in view of Hillel.
At 8:30 am, when the actual protest began, 1000 students converged on Hillel center as a show of support. We joined together for a pledge of allegiance, then I went up on the main stage when they called for people of religious beliefs to read together a statement of unity. Jews, Christians, Muslims, Pagans, Heathens, Quakers, Agnostics, Atheists, Buddhists, Hindus, Pastafarians, etc all joined together to read in one voice the statement where we were reminded that we are truly one people. A choir group got up to sing "seasons of love" and then another group was called up to represent and read a statement of diversity of race and sexual orientation.
It was around this time that WBBC gave up, and went home.
The rally continued on without them. Rutgers came together as a show of tolerance and unity for an hour in the cold and the rain, and outlasted the hatred of Westboro Baptist Church. Faith in the false god of hatred did not have the endurance in the living power of love.
And now to paraphrase Bill Pullman from Independence Day:
We know how to take them down, spread the message across the world
repost this message to your notes, your blogs, your vlogs, or even your websites.
Whenever these bigots appear to start fights and preach hate, call together people to outshout them 100 fold with messages of love, unity and tolerance. The method works. It worked here, and now make it work everywhere.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=180289130906&index=1
Instead of feeding into the conflict that WBBC was looking to provoke, Rutgers United Against Hate planned to make a statement about tolerance, love, and fellowship.
On the day of the protest, the church that stood across from the Hillel center, the church that would have stood behind the WBBC, decorated itself with rainbow flags and flags declaring the love and tolerance of God. Realizing that their message of hate would get lost against the backdrop of divine love and tolerance, WBBC moved down to the next street corner, where they were barely in view of Hillel.
At 8:30 am, when the actual protest began, 1000 students converged on Hillel center as a show of support. We joined together for a pledge of allegiance, then I went up on the main stage when they called for people of religious beliefs to read together a statement of unity. Jews, Christians, Muslims, Pagans, Heathens, Quakers, Agnostics, Atheists, Buddhists, Hindus, Pastafarians, etc all joined together to read in one voice the statement where we were reminded that we are truly one people. A choir group got up to sing "seasons of love" and then another group was called up to represent and read a statement of diversity of race and sexual orientation.
It was around this time that WBBC gave up, and went home.
The rally continued on without them. Rutgers came together as a show of tolerance and unity for an hour in the cold and the rain, and outlasted the hatred of Westboro Baptist Church. Faith in the false god of hatred did not have the endurance in the living power of love.
And now to paraphrase Bill Pullman from Independence Day:
We know how to take them down, spread the message across the world
repost this message to your notes, your blogs, your vlogs, or even your websites.
Whenever these bigots appear to start fights and preach hate, call together people to outshout them 100 fold with messages of love, unity and tolerance. The method works. It worked here, and now make it work everywhere.