Westboro Baptist Church Protests the Southern Baptist Convention. This Should Be Fun.
In the world of protestors, there are the revolutionary type (Arab Spring) and the pacifist/sit-in type (Occupy Wall Street), and then you have the bat-shit crazy, inappropriate, and downright horrible type. The notorious Westboro Baptist Church falls under that last category. The hateful yet exceptionally well organized group travels the country to protest military funerals, the U.S. government, Jewish people, and most prominently, homosexuals.
Several members were in town yesterday to protest the 2013 Southern Baptist Convention taking place at the George R. Brown. Although their name includes the term "Baptist", Westboro is not affiliated with either the Baptist World Alliance or the Southern Baptist Convention.
The Houston Police Department was on hand to keep the peace between the church, which in this instance only included five members, and the dozen or so counter-protesters who also held up signs and chanted anti-hate slogans towards the Westboro members.
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The counter-protest attempted to drown out the hate speech by singing the actual lyrics of the songs, and shouting things like "We love fags!" and "Fags love you, love us back!"
More, including photos, at http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2013/06/protesting_the_westboro.php .
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Were I down that way, I'd go watch. Probably stir some shit too....MWAHAHAHA! 
The problem with Baptists is they don't hold them under long enough. 
