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Regarding the video interview with Shirley Phelps, I feel really sorry for that girl. She must have grown up in an environment of sickening intolerance and cruelty. I can't even be mad at all that reeking defecation coming from her mouth, I just feel so, so sad so think how that woman must have been utterly destroyed as a child. Just to hear her talk, it's clear she's totally delusional. I've seen photographs of the "filthy, clueless, simple sluts" at these protests and they're... not. They're just NOT. They're regular college students. They basically look just like her except for the ones wearing togas. She's deluded enough to be broadcasting some kind of completely imaginary perception onto these students. It's just sad, and it's even worse to hear that she's doing it to her own children.
I just feel so, so sad so think how that woman must have been utterly destroyed as a child . . . and it's even worse to hear that she's doing it to her own children.
So TOTALLY agree on both of these points, this is what I always wonder about myself.
I strongly support freedom of speech, assembly and religion. Additionally I don't advocate at all that the government poke its nose into people's lives unless there is a real good and real provable reason . . . BUT somehow I can't help from thinking "where is child protective services? surely this must be some form of mental abuse!"
Exactly. I understand the value of living in a place where freedom of ALL speech and ALL thought is protected by law... and at this point in the evolution of our society and of human thought, that is necessary and as far as we can justifiably go... but I just think someday, we'll know better. We as a whole people will be able to agree that there is a line between freedom and the propagation of mental illness through the willful refusal to acknowledge to one's own children the basic ideals of both this country and their own God. You would think the Church would step up to them, if the Government is not yet equipped to do so in a way that both respects individual beliefs and choices and recognizes that at some point, we as a society have to say We will not accept this. Humanity is better than delusional hatred.
darn if we know, can't see that they are more or less interesting than any other HS in the greater Boston Area, as an Alumni Member you are probably in a better position to know than us
maybe, but when they showed up in NYC recently they went and picketed various HS's most that were predominantly just your typical urban inner-city ones and the kids were like "who are those crazy white people with the weird signs and funny accents?"
If you are going to counter protest, Do not actually engage westboro's people. Part of the reason they protest is to antagonize people so that they disrupt their protest or put their hands on the churches members. They then sue the offending parties to fund their church. Instead, you have to get creative. This is how Rutgers did their counterprotest http://community.livejournal.com/genderqueer/1129191.html
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Regarding the video interview with Shirley Phelps, I feel really sorry for that girl. She must have grown up in an environment of sickening intolerance and cruelty. I can't even be mad at all that reeking defecation coming from her mouth, I just feel so, so sad so think how that woman must have been utterly destroyed as a child. Just to hear her talk, it's clear she's totally delusional. I've seen photographs of the "filthy, clueless, simple sluts" at these protests and they're... not. They're just NOT. They're regular college students. They basically look just like her except for the ones wearing togas. She's deluded enough to be broadcasting some kind of completely imaginary perception onto these students. It's just sad, and it's even worse to hear that she's doing it to her own children.
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So TOTALLY agree on both of these points, this is what I always wonder about myself.
I strongly support freedom of speech, assembly and religion. Additionally I don't advocate at all that the government poke its nose into people's lives unless there is a real good and real provable reason . . . BUT somehow I can't help from thinking "where is child protective services? surely this must be some form of mental abuse!"
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Brookline High class of '92 here.
The hell are they messing with BHS for?
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Instead, you have to get creative.
This is how Rutgers did their counterprotest
http://community.livejournal.com/genderqueer/1129191.html
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