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Where to Put Your Rage

August 29, 2006

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20060829_phelps_260x157.jpgThis started off as a story we loved reporting. Couple moves to Kansas town, their son finds a rainbow flag in California and sends it as a gift because of Kansas/Wizard/Rainbow, and they put it up outside the hotel that they own. Then, town recognizes rainbow significance, goes nuts, family keeps flag flying to stand proudly in the face of bigotry.

Of course, these are also the kinds of stories that never end.

This week, that weirdo Phelps clan showed up with their brood of hillbilly children, so that they could all hold their signs and shout and sing about how much “God Hates Fags.” You know the Phelps, right? They show up to military funerals to protest because America treats gays so well? They have signs that say, “Thank God for September Eleventh,” and they bring them to Manhattan occasionally. They keep a ticker on their website of “days that Matthew Shepard has been in hell.”

Yeah, them. Well, they've taken their freak show to Meade, Kansas this week to protest that little flag in the hotel window. And it’s gotten downright ugly.

The Advocate, quoting an AP article, had this to report: “It's just not right," said Suzan Seybert, a 30-year resident of the southwest Kansas community, as she watched (Phelps’ family) chanting about gays burning in hell. "I think it's despicable to start to teach your children at such a young age the word hate. It's just the worst thing you can do."

Mike Thompson, who teaches a class at Colby Community College on the sociology of discrimination, brought some of his students to see the protests. Among them was Kati Near, who grew up in Meade. "I think a lot of people think we're all just a bunch of bigots," Near said, adding that she was embarrassed by what was going on in her hometown.

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Brittany wrote:

I am an open lesbian student who attends a university in Kansas. On more than one occassion the Phelps cult have come and protested on our campus. We as well as other univerisities in Kansas use the Phelps protest as a fundraiser similiar to "Every minute counts". Its horrible that we are so immune to his words of hate. Being from here and seeing them frequently has harded all of us to the point of finding him and his children humorous. How sad that in the world today there are people who perpetuate the antiquated philosophies of hate.

posted at September 7, 2006 09:11 AM

Robert Wayne wrote:

It sounds like you queers do more bitching and complaining than anybody else.

(ED: Thanks for writing in Bob!)

posted at January 20, 2008 09:39 PM

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