Westboro Baptist Church To Protest At My Old High-School

[Regina]

WBC in 20 minutes can do more to discredit religion than I could ever hope to achieve in my lifetime.

They've been damn good for helping to advance gay rights, too. Shirley was questioned by a reporter (sorry, can't remember newsorg) on the topic and acknowledged the US had veered strongly towards acceptance despite or because of WBC.

I agree. The WBC come across so petty about their views on homosexuality that I think it's actually waking a lot of straight people up - homophobia is petty, and the WBC are the perfect example of that pettiness.

[Jenny A]

WBC in 20 minutes can do more to discredit religion than I could ever hope to achieve in my lifetime.

Would that it were so.

In Salem, my reaction was pride in our local churches who handled the attack with grace. Doesn't make me Christian, but it does give me greater faith in humanity.

They've been damn good for helping to advance gay rights, too.

I suspect that this at least is so. Thank you WBC. It seems to be helping with Christians in particular.

[psychoslice]

I respectfully disagree, because they are not violent.

The KKK were/are a real threat and menace to society because of the lynching culture. You can't ignore that, it's something that has to be taken seriously because people can be killed.

I feel like with the WBC, it's petty infantile shouting and screaming, and if anyone completely shits on their arguments, the worst they're going to do it stick their fingers in their ears and scream like children. I'm sure I've heard them say explicitly they have no intention of being violent. This doesn't justify their hatred one bit, I think their picketing of funerals and raising children to say deplorable things about "Hell" are completely unacceptable. However, they can simply be blocked off by manpower and won't do anything.

Yes that may be true, but give them time and power, and they will be doing the same.

[dyresand]

WBC are nothing more than overrated attention whores and idiots. But you know what... let them keep it up and keep making a mocker of themselves.
Because well they are going to fuck with the wrong people one day and its not going to be pretty.