Westboro Baptist Church to protest at VCU
The notorious Westboro Baptist Church has a day of protest planned for several Richmond locations on September 26, including a stop at VCU:
Virginia Commonwealth University 907 Floyd Ave. WBC to picket at the Virginia Commonweath University where the students have been taught from the cradle that God is a liar and that His commandments are just suggestions really. Your parents, teachers and preachers have encouraged you to serve yourselves and your lusts instead of obeying God, to wit: abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul (1 Pe. 2:11). You are a generation that is good for nothing except the killing fields of Iraq and Afghanistan. You are entitled to hear the truth and see what good looks like. We tell you plainly that God is not a liar; that if you believe and obey Him, He will bless you; if not, He will curse you. There’s nothing but curses all day everyday for this nation. If any have an ear to hear, come out from her today! Amen!!
This will be the group’s 2nd appearance in the Richmond area in 2010. A previous appearance at the Holocaust Museum, along with Westboro’s anti-gay messages, led to the formation of Pennies in Protest (who raised over $14,000 for the Hermitage High School Gay-Straight Student Alliance, the Holocaust Museum, the Jewish Community Center, and the Jerusalem Connection).
WBC will also be protesting at St. Paul’s Baptist Church on Creighton Road, Trinity Baptist Church on Fendall Avenue, and the West End Assembly of God on Parham Road.
Just ignore them. Please just ignore them.
Counterprotests just feed their egos.
http://wbclovesjewsandgays.chipin.com/wbc-loves-rva
Haters will be hated in return
Can we drop the $14K of pennies on them from the top of a nearby very tall building?
Please ignore them. they want your attention…counterprotests are what they want.
What they want is someone to punch them in the face and then sue. Let’s protest; it’s fun and gets some of that anger out.
Plus it’s like a free freak show you don’t need to feel guilty about…
can we fling poop at them?
They feed off of counter-protests and their main moneymaking scheme is to sue those who do anything to them. Don’t feed their hatred with counter-protests — it gives them attention they don’t deserve.
I disagree with the people who keep saying don’t do a counter-protest. They won’t be ignored. They’ll be all over the TV and newspapers like they always are and there will be nobody disagreeing with them. Pennies in Protest was awesome. It was an incredibly heartwarming and effective response to what could have been a horrible thing. At least something good came of it. Minorities who feel marginalized at every turn felt supported. It is worth the time and effort to provide a different voice and to show that Richmond not only doesn’t support WBC, we will not stand by and let them bring their vile message to our doorstep and do nothing in response. It is unacceptable.
“All that’s necessary for evil to triumph is for GOOD men to do nothing” – Edmund Burke
Hi everyone… does anyone know the exact time and place where Westboro will be protesting on the VCU campus??
Thanks
They’d posted 907 Floyd Ave. I went to their calendar page to confirm the time and noticed that they’ve dropped the listing for VCU. The other Richmond appearances are still there, though.
The Wingnut Anarchist Collective will be organizing a counter-protest if WBC is still planning to arrive at VCU.
http://thewingnutrva.wordpress.com/2010/09/10/westboro-baptist-is-coming-to-town-call-to-all-fags-and-fag-enablers/
We may change the location of our counter protest depending on what WBC seems to be planning.