Westboro Baptist Church Gets A Big Surprise While Protesting Wilson High School

Wilson High School Principal Pete Cahall came out as gay last week at a Pride Day event at the school alongside D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and openly gay City Councilman David Catania.

“I want to say publicly for the first time because of your leadership, care and support that I am a proud gay man who just happens to be the principal of Wilson High School,” the 50-year-old, who also said he was tired of "hiding," told the crowd.

After making the announcement, Cahall was met with an outpouring of support from the local community. However, WBC challenged that by saying members would protest the school for celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

Westboro Baptist Church Gets A Big Surprise While Protesting Wilson High School

Pseudo-religious hate-cult leader fails, dies | MSNBC

It is no secret that I am a fan of Rachel Maddow. It is not because she is a sister-in-arms, or that she is a "bleeding heart" liberal. No, it's because she is super smart and if you listen closely (not just to this clip) she can convey her point so succinctly and brilliantly.

I may not go as far as she in the "who cares" vane of thought due to the fact the current leadership of WBC under Steve Drain is just beginning. But I do agree, "there is something important, I think, and worth noting I think now that it's founder has died."


What Maddow pointed to, in trying desperately to pressure religionists into hating LGBT people, the backlash that WBC sparked was a unifying element against their beliefs.


Pseudo-religious hate-cult leader fails, dies | MSNBC

Westboro Baptist Church Founder and Civil Rights Attorney Fred Phelps Dies

All I will say is good riddance. Regretfully the bigotry will continue under the leadership of Steve Drain.

Westboro Baptist Church Founder and Civil Rights Attorney Fred Phelps Dies

He Looked Hate in the Eye - Michael Smerconish - POLITICO Magazine

Walt Fisher’s obituary, after he lost his battle with lung cancer, was notable for what it didn’t reveal. When the 57-year-old from York, Pa., died in the spring of 2011, the local Daily Record reported his place of birth (Hershey); the names of his parents (Harold and Mary, née Spangler); his employer (JoS. A. Bank Clothiers); and even his hobbies (music, reading and spending time at the beach). Reference was also made to those who survived him: “a brother, Patrick E. Kling, and his wife, Wendy of Hummelstown; a step-brother, David Kling, and his wife, Susan of Harrisburg; a nephew, Noah Kling; and an aunt, Doris Eby of Hershey.”

Despite listing some of those Fisher held dear, the obituary was silent about the most important person in his life for his final 14 years: Nothing was said of Albert Snyder.

Of course, mention of Al would have raised some eyebrows. He had been in the newspapers plenty in recent months, on account of the landmark free speech case he had lost at the Supreme Court, just 10 weeks before Walt’s death. Al’s court fight had grown out of the battle he had been waging for years against a homophobic church that disrupted his son’s military funeral in 2006—a case that raised monumental questions about the limits of free speech, to say nothing of the bounds of human decency. Desperate to advance a convoluted belief that soldiers’ deaths demonstrated God’s disdain for America’s homosexuals, the Topeka, Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church had, in the years since the American invasion of Iraq, staged headline-grabbing protests at the funerals of military personnel. The subsequent court battle Al waged over his son’s funeral brought him a measure of grim notoriety, but never publicly revealed—until now—was Al’s added motivation for fighting the cult that wrongly, viciously implied that his son was gay—namely that Al, who was Walt’s partner, is himself gay.

He Looked Hate in the Eye - Michael Smerconish - POLITICO Magazine

Students Block Westboro Baptist Church's Michael Sam Protest With Wall Of Love

All that needs to be said concerning Michael Sam,,,

"Our hope is for the wall to reflect a unified student body and symbolize a display of love towards our own tiger, Michael Sam," students Kelaney Lakers and Alix Carruth said in a statement to the press, obtained by the Riverfront Times. "We're humbled and a bit overwhelmed by the community's response. This issue is so much bigger than either of us, and we want to do justice to Michael Sam and show him that Mizzou loves him."

Students Block Westboro Baptist Church's Michael Sam Protest With Wall Of Love

Guy has got balls,,,

This clip is a bit dated and normally I would not post anything concerning the WBC (they do not need any more free publicity) BUT this clip is F***ING hysterical,,,



And I love this comment:

I’m sorry for that man by the way. Since he didn’t really condemn the advances of the interviewer that might be seen as inappropriate by his folks…

If you watch the clip, he's right, Fred Jr. didn't really say anything to condemn,,,the women did,,,got to love it.

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