Why on earth would Westboro Baptist Church....

[holly_evolving]

stage a protest in San Fransisco? I mean, really!

http://laughingsquid.com/san-franciscos-answer-to-westboro-baptist-church/

Also, "I Was Promised Donuts!" is like, the best slogan, ever.

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[wolf-nd-shadows.livejournal.com]

WBBC makes money off its protests by provoking people into confrontations with them. They use their rhetoric to incite people into some form of violence, or into someway compromising their "freedom of speech" and then they sue the person.
The protest in San Francisco gets them lots of attention, and a really big possibility of them offending someone into making a compromising move.

[holly-evolving.livejournal.com]

It looks like a good time was had by all counter-protesters. WBC didn't even show up to their second planned location.

[wolf-nd-shadows.livejournal.com]

yeah, that is happening a lot. People know about what they do, and what works against them. They lasted only 15 minutes against the rutgers community.
My favorite part of the Rutgers protest is that the church they were supposed to stands in front proactively covered itself in rainbow flags that said "God is Love" which forced WBBC to walk half a block away from their intended target.

[brilligspoons.livejournal.com]

I do believe the WBC was Rick Roll'd!

[jenn-girl.livejournal.com]

I think my favorite is "I have a Sign"

[nbda1997.livejournal.com]

Shirley Phelps-Roper and her fellow waste-of-life zealots do what they do to make headlines and get off on their own press. I don't think they really care whether any people are swayed by their message.

The kicker is that basically everyone in the family are "civil rights" lawyers. Whenever someone tries to stop them from spreading their hate speak, they sue.. And believe it or not, they usually win.

[holly-evolving.livejournal.com]

I was pretty impressed with the Rutgers counter-protest. It looks like it happened on a grander scale than the SF Twitter, too. Theirs was just funnier.

I'm a big fan of using a wall of happy people to keep them out, instead of just asking them to leave.

[cullyn.livejournal.com]

Lawyers... Can't live with em, can't light them on fire. /sigh