Westboro Baptist Descends on San Diego Gay Community:
Members of a Kansas-based church known for spreading anti-gay and anti-Semitic messages are in San Diego.
The Westboro Baptist Church members plan to visit churches, synagogues and high schools around the county throughout the weekend. On Friday, a group was in Sorrento Valley, carrying signs that read "America Is Doomed" and "God Is your Enemy."
The group on Oberlin Drive was very small. The three adults and three children set up about a half-block away from San Diego Jewish Publications, the group's intended target, according to its Web site.
There were actually more members of the news media present than protesters.
"They're nuts," said Dale Goodman of Mira Mesa, a veteran who waved an American flag as part of a counterprotest, with one participant holding a sign that read, "Go Back to Kansas."
Several other onlookers expressed shock, and passing drivers honked and shouted obscenities at the group.
Elsewhere around the county, three of the adult protesters from Kansas and two of their children showed up in the afternoon across the street from San Diego High School. Hundreds of counterprotesters, many of them from San Diego's gay community, were on the school's side of the street.
The Kansas group, which was ringed by five San Diego police officers, was hard-pressed to get out their message because they were surrounded by news media. The counterprotesters, due to their sheer numbers, were much louder, playing music and chanting slogans.Friday Night's Men Magazine Fetish Magazine Release PartyStephen Gately Death Column Sparks Twitter Rage
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Baptists you say. Which Bible are they taking their text and direction from? The King James version? If so, these idiots are sadly misguided in their interpretations and poorly led.
Where is the practice of the Golden Rule, laid out by Jesus himself? You know, “Love your neighbor as yourself” and it close cousin “Do onto to others as you would have them do onto you.”
Theirs is pure hate mongering for hate’s sake and nothing more. Their approach is reminiscent of the KuKluxKlan who had a three fold hate of Blacks, Jews and Roman Catholics. I submit this group of assholes militates against these same three groups as well as homosexuals and bisexuals. They are bigots of the worst kind and don’t stop until they incite the exciteable to violence against the unsuspecting for the mere fact that they are different. What an empty faith they must have if they must teach hate instead of love for others; intolerance instead of compassion; fear instead of hope. Confusion instead of understanding; haste instead of patience. What a sad day in America!