Story behind this is here.
Basically, three students at the University of Wisconsin-Stout in Menemonic, WI, had died in a fire. For some reason, this caught the attention of the Westboro Baptist Church. If you aren't familiar with who they are (and I think everyone is by now), they are a hate group disguising themselves as Christians who never learned the idea that even though we may disagree with someone we should still love them as brothers and sisters in Christ.
Their "response" to the fire is here.
Well, the students at UW-Stout weren't going to take it lying down. Despite warnings by administration to leave the protesters alone and not engage them, over 1,000 students showed up at the much smaller protest and shouted down the WBC members. They ended up leaving after about 15 minutes.
They weren't going to take it lying down. And I don't blame them.
2 comments:
I was there, and as you can tell from the video we don't want any type of hate group in our community, especially after such a tragedy.
My only concern with engagement of these people is that it just makes them think they are more imortant than they are. But considering the circumstances I wholeheartedly supprt this time.
I don't know if you ever saw the one where they were "rickrolled" by a guy in a mowhawk at one of their events, but it's pretty funny.
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