When Westboro Baptist Church (that gay-hating bunch that demonstrate at military funerals) announced that they would demonstrate at Meade High School near Ft. Meade, in Maryland last week, they got more than they bargained for.
It was a peaceful confrontation; they were never threatened, but the six Westboro parishioners with their hateful signs were met by several hundred local residents and a large contingent of the Freedom Riders motorcycle group in a massive counter-demonstration.
Members from several different Annapolis churches staged a "flash mob" piece of performance art, dressing in matching white T-shirts adorned with scripture. They sang and prayed for the members of the Kansas church.
Upon seeing the citizens massed across the road, Shirley Phelps-Roper – the daughter of Westboro pastor Fred Roper and attorney/spokesperson for the church – is reported to have said, “What the Heck is wrong with these people?”
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