Oh, for . . .the stupid trolls are back

[pegkerr]

The Westboro Baptist church (of www.godhatesfags.com fame) announced plans to picket the funerals of the Virginia Tech victims because:

"God is punishing America for her sodomite sins. The 33 massacred at Virginia Tech died for America's sins against WBC (Westboro Baptist Church). Just as U.S. soldiers dying in Iraq each day for America's sins against WBC."

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[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

They showed up to picket the Cambridge City Hall celebration of the legalization of gay marriage I attended back in 2004. There was this pathetic little knot of mean-spirited, brainwashed idiots holding their horrible signs. The Cambridge police marched out of their station a block away, immaculately dressed in riot gear, marched up onto Massachusetts Avenue, marched across in front of the Phelpsians, and did a precise face-left to face the Phelpsians, turning their backs on the teeming mobs of celebrants in front of City Hall.

It was, obviously, a memorable message. I wonder sometimes if the Phelpsians understood it.

I'm sure they were spewing their hate loudly, but I couldn't hear it over the impromptu brass band and the crowds singing, "Goin' to the Chapel." I doubt much of anyone else could either.