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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 03/01/2010 : 17:09:46
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I thought they went broke.
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/local/article/groups_mobilize_to_counter_westboro_baptist_protests_tomorrow/327617/
An anti-gay church says it will demonstrate in Richmond on Tuesday, and local community groups say they plan counterdemonstrations.
Westboro Baptist Church, based in Topeka, Kan., has announced on its Web site a number of sites throughout Virginia that it plans to picket, including four in the Richmond region.
Among other things, the church makes anti-Semitic comments about Jewish students and pickets funerals of American soldiers, claiming God has killed them for defending a nation of "sodomite hypocrites."
The Westboro demonstration sites include Hermitage High School and the Weinstein JCC in Henrico County and the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond. Community organizers are now mobilizing counterprotests through Facebook, blogs and phone calls.
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I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
Jerry Garcia
Robert Hunter
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
5310 Posts |
Posted - 03/01/2010 : 17:12:04 [Permalink]
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| Another local group, started by four Richmond mothers, Pennies in Protest, has collected about $4,600 from 190 contributors in less than four days in existence. Cofounder Sarah Allen-Short said they got the idea from a New York synagogue that used the occasion of a 50-minute WBC protest to raise $10,000 by asking people to donate to the synagogue for every minute of the WBC picket. |
http://wbclovesjewsandgays.chipin.com/wbc-loves-rva |
I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
Jerry Garcia
Robert Hunter
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Westboro Baptist coming to Richmond VA area
