Protesting existence.

[kippurbird]

... Apparently the Westboro Baptists Church might be picketing on October 19th outside the university where I work?

We got an email from the administration about it. They basically said, "Ignore them".

I can't imagine exactly what we did to garner their attention, but I'm going to go with "existing".

We'll have to see if anything happens, yup

Comments

[djiril]

Wow. WBC has a "protest schedule" on their website, and it does seem that they are targeting a lot of Jews lately for being Jews. They are also targeting the National Council of Jewish Women for being too loud and pushy, apparently. I won't link to it, but you can find it easily enough with a google search.
They have a paragraph or two for each protest explaining why they are doing it. I'm not sure which school is yours, since they are picketing more than one Jewish university in California on that day.

[smurasaki]

Yeah. These are the people who are so far off the deep end that the local conservative religious nutbars here actually counter protested them when they came here to harrass one of the high schools for some reason.

Good luck! I hope everyone ignoring them totally ruins their day.

[bklydej]

Because she's Jewish, and her school is Jewish.

Yes, that is as stupid as it sounds.

[zephronias]

Isn't that, you know, illegal? I'm pretty sure someone made a law somewhere that says you're not allowed to screw with people because of race/sexual orientation/religion.

What's the "real" reason they've given officials to allow themselves on your campus? (Or outside it, as the case may be).

Worst case scenario, have someone turn the sprinklers on them.

[kippurbird]

They're not going to be on the campus. They'll be protesting just off of the property. And because of that they're within their first amendment rights to do so.

This is what it says on their picket schedual thing:

American Jewish University - Unthankful Jews Go 2 Hell! 15600 Mulholland Dr WBC has some things to say to the hateful, God-defying, hypocritical Jews of DOOMED america and the world: If you do not repent you will be with all the other earth dwellers who have received the mark of The Beast Obama. You think that Holocaust was something? How's this for a history lesson right out of Ezekiel 9:1, et seq. "He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand. And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the