Starting a Love Campaign, to counter act and wash out the Hate…(tears)
Myself and a good friend have decided to start a new campaign. I hardly ever watch mainstream television, or radio, coincedently though, the I was around a television and overheard my Bay Area News speak of a mother who shot and killed her two children. This alone is tragic enough, those poor lost children, but what I heard next just FLOORED me! A baptist protest group, the West Borough Baptist Church group is showing up at the funeral today to PROTEST the fact the father is in the military wit signs like “GOD HATES YOU” and “GOD SMACK”, and “YOU ARE GOING TO HELL”…(tears)…. I am having a hard time even writing this, and admit I am on two hours of sleep today because I had such an anxiety attach from my heartbreak for these children at their funeral. The kids had nothing to do with their mother being crazy and had no control over their father’s career choices. I hear they go to funerals of fallen officers, and protest when soldiers arrive home.
I know we have the “right” to protest, but there is a difference between protests and demonstrations, with that said, I also believe there are times and places for protests and demonstrations….that being NOT at funerals.
This group if feeding off of local publicity, and I personally feel they are hungry and feeding off of all the attention, for their egos. These ppl are not true protesters ar even demonstrators, and wanted to expose them world wide, starting with a petition first probably. Now, my friend had a better idea…. let’s start a love campaign, meaning the next time we hear of funeral crashing with hate signs, have campaigners show up with love, nothing but love and love signs, lets the bad ppl look ridicules with their hates, and let the funeral goers know they are not alone in their horrible time of sorrow.
The other main reason for starting the campaign is the large amount of hate crimes I have been hearing about concerning gay rights, ect…..we just want to counter act the hate with love…. fight fire with water and estinguish the flames,. at least at funerals because it’s a start, just make a silent wall between the haters and the mourners, they deserve some peace.
I am soo tired and can’t see straight, lol, I will update later
Thank you for reading!
Respect for all, love and light
XXXOOO
I do not foresee a great deal of success for this campaign, I’m afraid. But on the other hand, it should have better potential to succeed than the hate campaign 8)
I’m tired from the anxiety, and have a bad heart, but still need to ponder alot on this
XXXOOO
Westboro and Fred Phelps have been around for a while… I sometimes wonder if the hate of the extremists is so obvious and repugnant it stands as a lesson of how not to be? At least that is my hope.
I applaud you and what you are doing. Again! 😉
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07 October 1998: Laramie, Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard was deceptively befriended by two men who were looking to rob a gay man. After doing so, they beat & tortured him so badly that his head was completely covered in blood, except where his tears streaked it clean. In the cold night, he was tied to a fence while he begged for his life. 18 hours later a cyclist going by discovered him there, initially mistaking him for a scarecrow. He died several days later in a Fort Collins, Colorado hospital.
At the trial of these two men, who were convicted, the church you describe was present & protesting gays. (Now) Sirius Satellite Radio talk show co-host Romaine Patterson organized a counter-protest group, where they attired themselves as angels and encircled the Westboro Baptist Church protesters. This type of counter-protest was later coined an “Angel Action”, which you see depicted above, at a different event.
Up until late 2009, the Matthew Shepard Act & similar attempts at adding violent crimes against gays punishable as hate crimes (other groups already had such protection), failed in both Wyoming state government and federally. This was by-and-large because The Republicreditcard Party wanted to retain license to being spiritually bonded with the homophobia of The Westboro Baptist Church protesters you describe – to the everlasting shame of that Party and it’s supporters. Spirituality is not always a good thing.
After his passing, three narrative films and a documentary were made about Matthew Shepard.