Hate Group To Protest "RENT" in Sacramento

[Akitarent]

SACRAMENTO  A group notorious for picketing various political events tied with the gay community as well as the funerals of deceased American soldiers will be making a pit stop in Sacramento and Davis this week.The Westboro Baptist Church, which runs the websites GodHatesFags.com, will protest at two Sacramento high schools  Rosemont High and McClatchy High  as well as several Jewish places of worship and the Sacramento Community Theatres showing of the Broadway musical Rent on February 5th.
Hate Group To Protest "RENT"

[TimesSquareRegular]

Some very clever people started the following site, which lists the places these repulsive people will be picketing - and uses their presence as a fund-raising opportunity for the very groups/people being targeted:

http://www.phelps-a-thon.com/Home.html

From what I understand, they then follow up with a letter to Phelps and his demon pack, thanking them (for example) for helping to raise $$$$ for the Gay-Straight Student Alliance!

[BwayTday]

It baffles me that these people think that God(if there is one, who am I to say) would approve of this hateful behavior. Doesn't God love all of his creatures regaurdless of sins according to the bible? Ugh these people are insane and have no grasp on how hateful they are actual being. I am throughly disgusted. These people will certainly be going to Hell if it exists. Human nature annoys me.

[Scarywarhol]

Notice that almost whenever there is a "hate group" talked about in the media protesting almost anything, it is the tiny, barely existent, and LOUD Westoboro Baptist Church. The Phelpses and company get headlines because they are so ridiculous and so out of touch. They have no clout. They are changing no minds, except maybe in the other direction. They are grotesque and fascinating. But the best thing to do, for our culture, is to ignore them.

[Akitarent]

Wow! I'm so glad they are able to turn something that can be so hurtful and malice into a positive. No matter what race, creed, sexual orientation, religion, etc we all should be loved on who we are. What these "haters" are doing completing contradicts the Bible and most religions.

[Scarywarhol]

Actually, not to threadjack and start a horrible onslaught of terrible posts, the Westboro Baptist Church follows the Bible. To the LETTER. Which is why they are so hateful.

[beagle]

They don't follow the Bible to the letter. Jesus said the second greatest commandment is "Love your neighbor as yourself". These people are not following that.

[mll85]

They were protesting at alot of locations throughout the Bay Area last week. Theaterwise, they were protesting outside of high schools that were putting on productions of RENT and outside the theater where the tour of Fiddler is running.
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[LizzieCurry]

And they totally got rickrolled.

http://laughingsquid.com/san-franciscos-answer-to-westboro-baptist-church/

[tourboi]

They protested FIDDLER!?

[angelxschunard]

Great. Only in Sacramento. We see these people at EVERY rainbow festival and at every gay pride parade. Luckily, they stay away from the Gay and Lesbian Film Festival but I think that's because they don't know it exists.

[HumATune]

Harvey Fierstein is starring in Fiddler; that might be why.

[HerrStiefel]

If small-minded people like them are really going to heaven... I'm looking forward to hell.

[LizzieCurry]

They protested FIDDLER!?

Phelps isn't so fond of the Jews either.

[bschneid76]

I think the three best signs in Lizzie's post to the response were: "Where's Waldo?", "I'm Tired!", and "I Have a Sign!"

[Eris0303]

the Westboro Baptist Church follows the Bible. To the LETTER

Sounds like their copy had a misprint.

You see, they took the Bible literally - Adam and Eve, the snake and the apple, took it word for word. Unfortunately, their version had a misprint. It was all based on 1 Corinthians 13: "Faith, Hop and Charity, and the greatest of these is Hop."

[Eris0303]

I think the three best signs in Lizzie's post to the response were: "Where's Waldo?", "I'm Tired!", and "I Have a Sign!"

I like the "Never Gonna Give You Up", "Never Gonna Let You Down" "Never Gonna Run Around and Desert You"

[mywonderwa11]

Aaaaaaaaand "I Have A Sign" takes the win! That's hilarious.

[winston89]

Is anyone really shocked that these people are protesting Rent? I mean I know that what they do is bad and I am convinced that these guys area all walking evil. But, we do know what they believe and we do know what kind of events that they protest against so it would shock me to hear that they are protesting Rent.

These guys were in my town the week between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, even protested in front of the Temple where I had my Bar Mitzvah. Sure, there were counter protests, but, for the most part everyone just took it all with a grain of salt and ignored them and didn't give them the satisfaction of attention. I think that that is what is going to happen in California.

Hell, this is a group that protests stores that sell Swedish vacuum cleaners. I think that if they are group that does that then all bets are off as to what they will picket against next.

[myshikobit]

Wow... They came to my town last year to protest a funeral, on the highway, walking distance from my house.... ewwww

[jpbran]

I don't pray, but I'd make an exception to pray for an especially painful form of cancer (or other sometimes deadly ailment) to afflict Phelps and his followers. They're wasting oxygen other sane people could be using, and as they expend sooooo much energy on hate and misery, they should just die slow, painful deaths.

[tourboi]

Personally my favorite sign is "I HAVE A DOUGNUT!"

[JoeKv99]

Man if God Hates Rent I can't wait to hear what he thinks of Mamma Mia.

[Eris0303]

If you read the comments of the article Lizzy posted one of the "I WAS PROMISED DONUTS" signs ended up in a cop car. Funny stuff

[winston89]

JoeKv99, I think that Mamma Mia is the only show that the devil will allow the drama club in Hell to preform every year.