Westboro Baptist Church Resistance

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Today Westboro Baptist Church staged 5 or 6 protests throughout the Phoenix, Arizona area. The Mill Avenue Resistance, HERO, and other organizations staged counter-protests. Embedded with particular secular groups in the area, I went along with the observe like a good anthropologist.

It wasn't altogether that enlightening. Except perhaps the amazing counter-protest that involve 200+ people at the high school. Most of them students from said school. I got to talk to journalism students, sociology students, and others who came to witness the crazy.

This sort of venomous bigotry is just ... absurd.

People with us carried large American flags, rainbow colored flags, ... the Phelps never stayed more than 30-45 minutes in any one location making them a traveling circus.

The protested the Germans, the Finns, the Sweeds, that High School (I still don't know why) and finally they hit up that play.

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• Arizona
• Phoenix
• Westboro Baptist Chruch
• Fred Phelps
• Cindy Phelps
• bigotry
• homosexuals
• protest
• gay
• rights
• westboro
• scottsdale
• desert mountain
• high school

[HapyTwi]

The students and teachers are still talking about it haha I heard the security discussing it to.

[ThePrinceOfMillAve]

I hope that it wasn't horribly disruptive or anything. The amusing thing about the entire shindig seemed to be that the older people were pissed (parents mostly) and the rest of us were cheering on, singing, and waving the signs.

[xxxCaiti]

I cant find any good photos of the protest really. We came up there from Flagstaff for it but all of our cameras/phones were dead. If anyone has any good ones, hit me up!

[ThePrinceOfMillAve]

I have a very short clip of footage from the high school, but I'll add onto that video some of the photos that I have.

It was bloody difficult to get photos of any good framing in those crowds, but at least with context people can see what there was to see.

[eviljunglist]

I saw you there, I was the chick with the black and pink dreads.

[ThePrinceOfMillAve]

Awesome. I think it's brilliant that we have people from the protest actually swirling together on YouTUBE. Makes me wish that I had more to offer from the gathering.

[EemFibble]

I examined the news footage of the protest and I saw your hat but not you, thus proving you ARE a vampire!!!! You use elaborate makeup to show up on the 'Tubes.

[jilfina]

How dare you try to exist! haha :)

[thesuburbanapeking]

DOGS LOVE DEAD SOLDIERS

[thesuburbanapeking]

HATES YOU YOU GOTHIC TURD

[thesuburbanapeking]

GOD HATES

[felixq78]

Protesting is a waste of time, these Westborough fuckwits won't stop!

It's time to break out the pick handles folks, yes, sometimes violence is the only way to stop this sort of madness.

It's very hard to disrupt funerals while holding up signs if your legs are broken.They are the lowest form of humanity. How dare they attack people who are grieving for loved ones.

FUCK 'EM SMASH THOSE KNEECAPS STOVE IN THOSE EMPTY SKULLS.

[IskyMeow]

.. Zorro, I could almost see.. but Manson?! He's a bit freakier than I'd ever want to be mistaken for. :P

Of course, people compare me to Abby from NCIS, so, you know, I get to seem like an awesome person.

I wish I could have been at one of the protests. WBC never comes here. They'd have a field day at the casino I work at. I can think of at least 4 gay people off the top of my head. Of course, we'd just 86 them, and call Tribal Police. And showing up at a funeral here would get them hurt.

[nightmareklown]

dont worry i think their retarded and closed minded and now i hate them more due to the reason their protesting of the germans . my home counntry

[CrazyPastorFred]

Kudos on following them around and counter-protesting. Nice vid, I think it's funny how everyone thinks you're a vampire.

[HapyTwi]

Well a protest tends to be rather disruptive, nothing you can do about that. However, I think that a lot of the teachers found it futile and wouldnt bother themselves with it. The students were all wild about it. Even if they hadnt cared about the GSA Before that. I had a teacher tell us that she was proud of us. Oh and another teachers mother had to be escorted across the street.