Westboro Baptist Church Gets a Taste of Its Own Medicine

[Zorro]

The most hateful church in America has some colorful new neighbors. This week, members of the Florida-based nonprofit Planting Peace unveiled a project months in the making: Equality House, an activism center located directly across from the Westboro Baptist Church outside Topeka, Kansas.

From now on, the group known for picketing the funerals of everyone from military members killed in action to Mr. Rogers, in protest of America’s tolerance of homosexuality, will wake up every morning and stare at an LGBT rainbow—after Equality House members painted the building to match the gay pride flag.

Project Peace director of operations Davis Hammet spoke to TakePart from inside Equality House. He tells us the idea for the project originated months ago, after Planting Peace members heard about the protest of Josef Miles—a 10-year-old who took it upon himself to hold a sign in front of Westboro that read “God Hates No One.”

If 10-year-old Miles had the courage to hold a counter-protest—why couldn’t Planting Peace?

http://news.yahoo.com/westboro-baptist-church-gets-taste-own-medicine-203339850.html

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I LOVE it!

I wonder how they're taking it???

[niyad]

3. personally, I hope they are choking on it.

[niyad]

2. this is delightful!!

[goldent]

4. Why give this church more attention? I suspect that they love it.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

6. You are right!

This whole this will be Christmas for them! Mind you, it may keep them busy for a while and leave grieving families alone.

[Lordquinton]

10. because if we try to ignore them, they will grow and flourish

They are weeds that need to be plucked, and removed, then the area sprayed with roundup.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

11. The problem with that is that they want to be seen.

To pay this group attention is actually feeding them. They purposely place their children in harms way to get hurt and get attention. The religion part is just to help make what they do worse. It is a way to make even more get mad and come out and give them attention. They want it as negative as possible.

This is a case where not ignoring them will keep the problem around I fear. It is like in the end of the miniseries "Merlin", they beat the villain by just turning away. That may be the best thing to do with WBC.

[Lionessa]

5. I'm sorry but a colorful new neighbor and house are nothing compared to the hatred

and vitriol that group spews. Theirs is ugly and bigoted, the neighbors and house are cheerful, optimistic, and inclusive. To compare the two expressions of values as the "same" medicine is a complete insult to the new neighbors and the cheerfully bright house.

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

7. "The Bus" is opening in San Francisco

http://www.nctcsf.org/press_room/the_bus.htm

(just thought I would share...)

[Lady Freedom Returns]

8. Any chance it will get here to Tucson?

I want to see it!

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

9. No idea, someone just sent me the link, and I thought it appropriate to post here

I did see it was playing in a few other places, maybe you could make a request, and suggest places they might perform.