Counter Protest Westboro Church of Hate @ Drake University

[Shoush]

The Westboro Baptist Church is coming to Drake University to protest the "Same-Sex Marriage Divide" forum held by the law school.

Here's the plan:

6:00 AM (yes, it's early, but we can do it)- meet to make signs and discuss our PEACEFUL counter-protest. Location TBD (we're looking into Parents Hall in Olmstead)

7:30 AM- Walk to the law library and start our counter-protest. During the counter-protest we are going to raise money off of the WBC’s hate-speech. Every time they use hate speech, and/or for every sign they have using hate-speech someone will donate a dollar. Bring your singles!

8:30 AM- End counter-protest. For those who want to follow the WBC to the synagogues around town, now would be the time

10:00 AM- Showing of "The Laramie Project" in Olin 101

OR

10:00 AM- Activities such as tie-dying t-shirts and games. Location TBD (hopefully the same location as the sign-making)

12:00 PM- Lunch served for those who have participated.

Any suggestions for activities would be greatly appreciated. We want to give people an alternative to watching the movie, if they so choose, but we need your input on what you’d like to see happen.

Profits from t-shirts and donations will be sent to One Iowa, AIDS research and Al Snyder, the father who sued the WBC and is now being forced to pay part of their court costs, as well as his own. We will be taking any donations beyond these two methods that people would like to give, so feel free to bring extra money.

Please leave suggestions for activities on the wall, and any other ideas you may have. Remember, keep it PEACEFUL.

This is totally worth getting up on a Saturday morning for and you know it.

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[protest_dude]

1. Good Work!

Good work. Confronting them is good.

The only thing that really pisses me off is how whenever they are on FOX they try their hardest to leave out the Anti-Gay message. They try to make WBC sound like they are Anti-War Leftists or something. It pisses me off.

Their "God Hates the World" song track exposes how nuts they are.

[Shoush]

2. THANKS I'll let you know how it all shakes out...

...AND try to live-tweet the whole thing. Follow the hash tag #protestWBC on Twitter.