Freedom From Religion : A Fearless Young Woman Takes a Stand

[JohnnyRingo]

6. Call the Westboro Church

The "God Hates Fags" church is always looking for public venues that will allow them to post their hateful screeds. They believe churches (especially them) should be permitted to display religious messages to the public on all government property, but the law doesn't allow them.

Several years ago the town of Casper Wyoming decided to set up a display of the ten commandments in that city's public park. When the Westboro Church heard about this, they immediately applied for their own religious marker that declared the city was "where Matthew Shepard was born and learned to be a queer". It would continue that "he now burns in Hell with the rest of the fags and the people of Casper who condoned it".

The city of Casper was faced with the legal dilemna of discriminating between religions or removing their marker to avoid a certain court battle they would likely lose. I'm sure the church would love to post their own prayer right next to the school's plaque at their own expense.

I wrote the above account from memory and may have made slight errors in name spelling and quotes. (Matthew Shepard was the unfortunate victim of gay hate crime who was dragged behind a truck.)