Westboro Baptist Congregants Meet Human Wall of… Zombies
posted by ModeratorFiled under: Creative Activism, First Amendment Issues
Westboro Baptist loons run into protest wall””made of zombies?
by Howard Portnoy
Examiner.com
August 2, 2012
The Supreme Court may have greenlighted the hate-filled demonstrations by misguided adherents to the teachings of the Westboro Baptist Church, but the high court never said that counter-protests were not also covered by the First Amendment. Ever since the court handed down its controversial ruling, “human walls“ have become commonplace at military funerals””gestures meant to neutralize the church group”™s message of hate. In one widely reported example of the trend, the rock band Foo Fighters showed up in Kansas City in September of 2011 to “serenade” Westboro congregants.
Now one trend has meshed with another. KIRO-TV reports that last Friday, protesters assembling outside the Joint Base Lewis-McChord in DuPont, Wash., were met by””get ready for it””a wall of the living dead. (more…)
