Make Your Stand Against Westboro Baptist Church

Don't ignore the hate

It’s easy for those of us who are not gay, Jewish or Catholic to shrug off the creatures who make up the congregation of Westboro Baptist Church and dismiss them as inconsequential, mentally ill followers of a wing-nut cult. That’s certainly what they are. Not convinced? Visit www.godhatesfags.com for the evidence. For those of us who are not direct targets of Westboro’s spewage, it’s pretty hilarious stuff.

            But for many members of the Jewish and gay communities, it isn’t the slightest bit funny. For them, it’s painful to know that such reckless hate is out there, aimed right at them.

            The knuckleheads from Westboro, Kan.—famous for their colorful “God Hates Fags” and “Jews Killed Jesus” signs—are apparently planning to picket this Friday, Oct. 16, through Monday, Oct. 19, at various high schools, Christian and Catholic churches and Jewish institutions in San Diego and Carlsbad. There is disagreement—here and everywhere else their kooky road show has stopped—about how to respond to them, with some recommending that they be ignored and others planning noisy counter-protests.

            Morris Casuto of the local chapter of the Anti-Defamation League is part of the former group. “In general, [Westboro’s] greatest ongoing need is for media attention,” Casuto told Joseph Peña of San Diego News Network.  Read the whole story here…..