Damn, that Obama Liberal Fascist Homosexual Agenda has worked quickly. Bizarre nutcases People of faith were subjected to counter protests torrents of abuse from high school kids hordes of radicalized Obama Youth shouting their rejection of hate speech in order to protest drown out the constitutional right of radical extremist fundamentalist bigots devout Christians to express their homophobic hatred deepest religious beliefs at a public school government re-education camp named for Walt Whitman, America’s greatest poet most immoral atheistic Marxist.
The Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, KS is notorious for its tasteless and frequently nonsensical anti-gay protests. Not only do they picket the funerals of victims of anti-gay hate crimes, but they have been known to protest concerts, football games, and even a hardware store selling Swedish vacuum cleaners. Most recently, they have been busy picketing the funerals of soldiers killed in the Iraq War, believing their deaths to be a judgment on America. […]
According to the Potomac Almanac, “When Whitman sophomore Ryan Hauck first heard about the scheduled protest at Whitman from a friend he thought it was a joke. Then he went online … and saw just how serious the church is. ‘I was just shocked just from the second I heard it and I knew I had to do something,’ Hauck said. ‘[It was] the hatred of the whole thing that shocked me.'”
Hauck was aided by his fellow-sophomore Amar Mukunda, who “set up a Facebook group to generate support for the counter-protest through which more than 600 students have committed to attend. Mukunda said he doesn’t expect that many to show up on Friday, but that he does expect a healthy turnout.”
As it happened, the turnout far exceeded Mukunda’s expection of “a couple of hundred.” […]
Although the handful of picketers initially had the street to themselves, that changed dramatically when school was dismissed at 2:10 and five hundred students marched out, chanting the school name alternating with “Go home!”
Many of the students in the counter-protest were wearing T-shirts bearing a picture of Whitman and the line, “Let your soul stand cool and composed.”
Seriously, I’m very proud of these young people. They organized their counter-protest independently of any adult intervention solely in reaction to their distaste for the hateful and spiteful church activists of the Westboro Baptist Church led by Fred Phelps, the same group that protested at the funerals of soldiers killed in active duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also commend the school officials who permitted them to stand up to the hatred and bigotry of that publicity hound and hatemonger, Mr. Phelps (I refuse to call him a Pastor or Minister because in my mind what he teaches and promotes is as far from the message of a “Man of God” as one can get). Free speech isn’t a one way street as so many conservatives have tried to make it over the last eight years. And Americans, regardless of their political leanings, should be proud of these kids also. They stood up for their beliefs proudly and unashamedly and confronted hatred with their own belief in acceptance of the equality of all human beings, gay or straight. If they are our future, we’re in good hands.