The Westboro Baptist Church from Kansas came up to York to protest at York Senior High school. York Suburban High School's drama club did a play called "The Laramie Project", which deals with the reaction to the tragic 1998 death of Matthew Shepherd, a gay college student who was tied to a fence and beaten to death by two men.
The Westboro Baptist Church carried hand-painted signs with the words "God Hates America," "God is Your Enemy" and "Fags Doom Nations."
They met a counter-protest from a crowd with more than 10 times as many people who told them that neither they nor their message are welcome here. More than 150 from York and the surrounding area, who knew from the media, the Internet, myspace, and word-of-mouth the Westboro folks were coming, braved bitter temperatures outside the school Saturday night with their own message. "Go back to Kansas,"
This is the same group that wanted to protest at the funerals of the Amish Girls that were killed, but at the last moment didnt.
2007-02-12
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