A church based in Topeka, Kansas is scheduled to demonstrate next month outside Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda because the school, which opened in 1962, is named for a man who may have been homosexual.
Westboro Baptist Church has been drawing national attention for staging anti-homosexuality demonstrations at military funerals, on the theory that fallen troops are God’s punishment for a country tolerant of homosexuals.
Though I gotta say, if they’re devoting time and resources to protesting Walt Whitman they must have an insane amount of time on their hands. Leaves of grass, indeed.
Hey, those former George Bush, Jr. administration appointees have to find something to do.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89288713
Amazing isn’t it? These people aren’t just afeared of Teh Gay, but of Teh Might Be Gay.
They’re showing up to protest a decision made almost a half century ago?
That’s effective.
Time for a counter-demonstration; at least one recent one seems to have rather rocked. The God Hates Figs flyer apparently handed out there was especially great; I’m sure with a little Googling you could find a PDF and run off a handful of copies.
P.S. Didn’t your commenting system used to have a Preview function?
Sigh. I went to high school in Topeka. It makes me sick. Let’s face it – the state of Kansas has a bad enough name associated with it without these nutjobs running around protesting teh eeeeevilness of gays.
Stay classy, Republicans.
Bill O’Reilly reminded me of the Phelps clan when he had his jihad against Dr. Tiller tonight
That is stupid.
I say ship them off to DaVinci airport in Rome. Let them protest that.
CTTOI, there’s a Walt Whitman Intermediate School in Brooklyn. And another Walt Whitman High School in Huntington Station, and an elementary school in Woodbury, NY. And on the way up here they can gas up at the Walt Whitman Service Area on the New Jersey Turnpike. And then…
I think Homer Simpson is now planning their actions. “Damn you, Walt Whitman! I-hate-you-Walt-freaking-Whitman! ‘Leaves of Grass’, my ass!”
They won’t like this show either:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063948/
I hereby invite the Phelps klan to Philadelphia, where they can protest the Walt Whitman Bridge by jumping off of it.
Hey, lookathat! Another whole slew of attention whores!
I love the smell of desperation.
Oliver, you don’t have a paint ball gun by any chance, do you?
Don’t forget the Walt Whitman Mall out on Long Island (Huntington, NY)
Fred Phelps isn’t a pastor, and he isn’t a protester. He’s a con artist.
Wow, Stu, they’re like carnies, aren’t they?
Even L. Ron Hubbard and Joseph Smith had more scruples than this bunch of cobags.