[Please refer to my prior blog, "Thoughts on Snyder v. Phelps case" if you would like a background of the Supreme Court case involving the Westboro Baptist Church. I am going to keep this short as I just learned this news and am still soaking it in.]
The Westboro Baptist Church is coming to Fargo to picket a school play about the murder of a homosexual student in Wyoming named Matthew Shepard (the play is meant to teach about tolerance) . So what is a guy to do? After taking a step back from my initial anger, the answer came to me: Meet them in a First Amendment battle of ideas.
I plan to picket the picket with my friends and other concerned citizens. Hopefully much to the disappointment to the Westboro Baptist Church I will be a flag waiving, proud veteran who supports equality for ALL people, and a 1st Amendment protected picketer of the picket. Read the links below and join the Facebook group if you want to protest the protest with me. Each individual standing against this hate makes a difference.
http://www.valleynewslive.com/Global/story.asp?S=14002437
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=29416942#!/event.php?eid=194025807291606
Thank you to Asa Burck for passing this story on. Without him, I would not have been able to blog about it.
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