tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post4768696845512224953..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: Texas A&M Students Form Human Wall To Block Westboro Baptist Church Protestors. From HuffPo.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-35419991793410959032012-07-26T08:11:58.090-04:002012-07-26T08:11:58.090-04:00There's a link on Phelp-A-Thon, but it's n...There's a link on Phelp-A-Thon, but it's not showing unless you mouse over it. Here's the url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phelps-A-Thon .Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-65592817571682397212012-07-26T08:10:02.729-04:002012-07-26T08:10:02.729-04:00Rolling Thunder does this sometimes, too. Motorcy...Rolling Thunder does this sometimes, too. Motorcycle engines are really good for drowning out protestors (of course, they also destroy any possibility of a quiet funeral, but sadly Phelps et al. had already done that). <br /><br />And if Phelps shows up on your campus, consider a <a rel="nofollow">Phelps-A-Thon</a> -- another good way to counter these nuts, at least as much as possible. I'mContingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-50217052562841029342012-07-25T17:10:09.558-04:002012-07-25T17:10:09.558-04:00Exactly! For years the WBC were protesting at the ...Exactly! For years the WBC were protesting at the funerals of homosexual people, and while they got some response from the gay community and people like Michael Moore, they never really broke through into the mainstream. It wasn't until they hit on the PR idea of protesting at military funerals that they got the exposure that they wanted.Donalbainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14202007511832424814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-71002001731241212152012-07-25T15:28:35.546-04:002012-07-25T15:28:35.546-04:00For a moment I thought he must have been a gay sol...For a moment I thought he must have been a gay soldier, and was moved to tears. Now I see after the jump that "the group, which is based in Kansas, frequently targets military funerals because of 'a belief that God punishes soldiers because of America's tolerance of gays.'"<br /><br />Which is truly mind-bogglingly insane, and one wonders what on earth God is doing to IraqiFrog and Toadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06377542172335502858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-85103651906766055852012-07-25T15:00:16.509-04:002012-07-25T15:00:16.509-04:00Good on them. The WBC are a bunch of loons.
I hav...Good on them. The WBC are a bunch of loons.<br /><br />I have to wonder, though, whether we would have seen a similar outpouring of support from a college in middle-American football territory if the funeral had been for, say, a gay man. <br /><br />The WBC wasn't really on the radar of most Americans when it was only protesting at the funerals of people like Matthew Shepard, or at Defunct Adjuncthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12954331373226016090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-40739907979972225312012-07-25T14:41:51.164-04:002012-07-25T14:41:51.164-04:00Texas A&M was wrong to bail on the Big 12, but...Texas A&M was wrong to bail on the Big 12, but the Aggies got this one right.<br /><br />Good job!<br /><br />Gig 'em, Aggies!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com