Westboro Baptist Church Gets a Taste of Its Own Medicine

The group best know for its ‘God Hates Fags’ slogan...

 

 

now

has some LGBT love in its backyard.

Westboro Baptist Church Gets a Taste of Its Own Medicine: “[Westboro spokesperson] Shirley Phelps-Roper walked by and was taking some pictures yesterday,” he says. “She mentioned she really like the colors. Then she laughed and went back in the church. It seemed like she had a sense of humor about the whole thing. I’m sure in her eyes she just thinks we’re all going to hell.”

Planting Peace director of operations Davis Hammet spoke to TakePart from inside Equality House. He tells us the idea for the project originated months ago, after Planting Peace members heard about the protest of Josef Miles—a 10-year-old who took it upon himself to hold a sign in front of Westboro that read “God Hates No One.”