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Anti-gay protest to happen at a play in MY school

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I know we've had lots of topics about this subject, but since it's the first time it's happening near me... just thought I'd post about it.

I recently received this as an Instant Message...

In case you didnt know by now, Newton South High School is putting on a 3-night performance of the Laramie Project. The Laramie Project is a play based on the story of Matthew Sheppard, a young man who was killed because he was gay. The performances are taking place tomorrow, Friday and Saturday nights, On the Saturday performance, a anti-gay group known as the Weston Baptist Church (site: http://www.godhatesfags.com /) is coming and protesting. This is truly horrendous, be outraged, i know i am.
AND SPREAD THE WORD


Discuss... I expect to see some serious debating here !

(ignore that last part, just copying my whole IM ^^; )


~Zak
 
That really, really looks like a parody site. Are you sure it's not a parody site?

Edit: I dunno, maybe it's serious. It's just difficult for me to believe that anyone is actually that crazy. Why is the American flag upside down?
 
Landover Baptist is a parody site. These guys, as far as I know, are frightningly real. If I'm not badly mistaken, these are the same folks who've outraged thousands by staging their protests at funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq.
 
Murgatroyd said:
Landover Baptist is a parody site. These guys, as far as I know, are frightningly real. If I'm not badly mistaken, these are the same folks who've outraged thousands by staging their protests at funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq.
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You're not mistaken. This is Fred Phelp's church, isn't it?
 
And these people claim to be Christian. They don't even have respect for the dead. It's disgusting.
 
I'm honestly thinking of going there and trying to launch or join a counter-protest...
 
Zak said:
I know we've had lots of topics about this subject, but since it's the first time it's happening near me... just thought I'd post about it.

I recently received this as an Instant Message...

In case you didnt know by now, Newton South High School is putting on a 3-night performance of the Laramie Project. The Laramie Project is a play based on the story of Matthew Sheppard, a young man who was killed because he was gay. The performances are taking place tomorrow, Friday and Saturday nights, On the Saturday performance, a anti-gay group known as the Weston Baptist Church (site: http://www.godhatesfags.com /) is coming and protesting. This is truly horrendous, be outraged, i know i am.
AND SPREAD THE WORD


Discuss... I expect to see some serious debating here !

(ignore that last part, just copying my whole IM ^^; )


~Zak
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Now they come FOR YOU. They were HERE last week protesting a state senator who was trying to make it illegal to protest at funerals (one of their MANY specialties). These guys are INSANE. Jerry Falwell, Mr. Fundie Christian himself, even says these guys go too far. These guys are...just...I'll just stop there before I go down a path I tried before.

And yes, Archaic, this IS Fred Phelp's church.
 
They came to the town my college is in to protest something... I think it might have been the threat to remove the Ten Commandments statue from the Courthouse lawn.
 
Sucks for you. Unfortunately, there's really nothing you can do unless you organize a counter-protest.
 
This is retarded. These types of homophobic cristians make me sick. They should know that God loves EVERYONE, regardless of race, gender, religon, or sexual ornentation.
 
These people are frightening. In retrospect, clicking on the 'Thank God for Katrina' button was not the wisest decision I made today.
 
God Hates Fags?
That's antiChristian in just saying that, since God hates no one.
...Damn.
Why do these bakas insist on embarrassing the crap out of my religion and using God to justify hate?
 
Because it makes it sound like a legitimate reason to hate someone. Religious people have been doing it since religion was first invented. Religion's become more of a scapegoat than a belief system for these people. They pick and choose what they want and ignore the rest. The disc jockey on one of the local radio stations interviewed one of these people. He asked this person: "Isn't it true that God loves everyone?" The person chose to ignore the question, despite it being asked over and over again. It's...insanity at its finest.
 
Upon recent or perhaps just-remembered information:

Damn... I just HAVE to be out of town Saturday, the one time morons like this come up to my state... I wanted to flame them! ;_;
 
I find it hard to believe that there are no counter-protestors who have "snapped" and taken out these bigots yet.
 
Tsing Shi Tao said:
I find it hard to believe that there are no counter-protestors who have "snapped" and taken out these bigots yet.
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I chose not to attend the counter-protest we had here for just such a reason. Well...that and I don't own a gun, but I'm sure I could have gotten past that little hitch with ease.
 
Damn homophobic preachers with their propaganda bullcrap. Why do Americans listen to them? If they really were Christian then they wouldn't do this kind of thing, as God loves everyone no matter what.

Sorry for the language but this just ticks me off to no end.

Murgatroyd said:
If I'm not badly mistaken, these are the same folks who've outraged thousands by staging their protests at funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq.
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So they were doing anti-gay protests and not respecting the men and women who protect their very own country?
 
Yacob said:
So they were doing anti-gay protests and not respecting the men and women who protect their very own country?
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Actually...it was the same thing. You see, the US army is, according to them, full of "fags." And the reason these soldiers are dying is because America allows homosexuals to exist in this country and, apparently, because we also ENCOURAGE gay behavior. Idiocy is just...too kind a word.
 
I love how they determine that. It takes a special kind of idiocy to ignore that the countries who allow gay marriage haven't fallen into the ocean.

I wonder if I could do a counter protest that claims that bad stuff happens to us because we haven't allowed gay marriage, and that discrimination is an affront to god.
 
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