The Topeka-based Westboro Baptist Church is the preeminent anti-gay hatemongering group in the U.S., so how do you turn their activism against them? By using their protests as fundraisers. At least, in my former home in Virginia.
Gay and Jewish groups in Richmond learned that they were gonna be targeted by Fred Phelps’ fanatics, so they launched Pennies in Protest. The idea is simple: Ask people to donate, a la walk-and-ride fundraisers, a penny, a dime, a quarter for every minute that WBC was in town protesting. So, WBC shakes signs saying “God Hates Fags” for two hours? People pony up as little as $1.20. Then those funds are donated to the gay and jewish groups. In less than 12 hours, the group raised $1,200.
Who doesn’t like the irony that Phelps and friends actually benefited the groups they were protesting? And they probably spent well more than $1,200 of their own money staging the protest. Net gain, as I see it.
You can read more about it at KindnessGirl.com.
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We are now up to almost $5000!
I honestly don’t know what kind of mental disease this country has acquired. Homosexuality is a filthy immoral lifestyle, yet this country seems determined to middle-finger God by marrying homosexuals. If that wasn’t bad enough, allowing homosexuals to adopt children! That is nothing but legalized child abuse!
“whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.” (Matthew 18:6)
God destroyed Sodom & Gomorrah for this very sin. What makes you stupid Americans think God won’t destroy you for doing the same thing??? I have to applaud the Westboro Baptist Church. They are the only Christians out there with enough guts to protest this Godless filth. All other Christians are hiding like cowards.
Mary, Mary, quite contary, go suck a rubber ducky.
Mary, thanks for adding your opinion and welcome to the Dallas Voice, “the premiere media source for LGBT Texas.” Homosexuality is contagious and we do, in fact, recruit. I need just two more lesbians for my next toaster oven, so I hope I can count on you.
For the life of me, I can’t figure out the argument that children adopted by gays automatically means the kids are abused. Where’s the non-partisan, non-biased, documented proof? I hear a lot of talk, but no hard proof. Speaking as an abuse survivor, straight parents are abusers, too! Abuse is not an orientation thing, it’s a wacked parent thing. Extremists worry me.