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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Oh, wonderful. Westboro Baptist is coming to protest at the Penn State football game on Saturday.
Is it wrong of me to hope they end up in the middle of a mob of drunk and angry football fans?
Seriously, though. This just gets worse and worse the more news that comes out. A life-long friend of mine teaches at Penn State, and he's just beyond appalled right now.
What exactly are the Westboro Baptist people for or against in this situation?
They are for getting themselves in the media spotlight. No more, no less.
What exactly are the Westboro Baptist people for or against in this situation?
Anything that will give them a chance to file a lawsuit against someone. Of course, if they end up in the angry mob, they may not be capable of suing anyone afterwards.
They are for getting themselves in the media spotlight. No more, no less.
Can there be anyone left in that congregation who was simply looking for a church community?
Amy,
that is an extremely funny foundation for a Daily Show skit. Can you imagine someone looking for a church community, finds them by accident, and horror and hijinks ensue.
If there was ever a group that deserved a chain-link-fence Freedom Zone a couple blocks from an event, it's the Westboro so-called Church.
Can there be anyone left in that congregation who was simply looking for a church community?
It's my understanding that there basically isn't a congregation - its pretty much just the Phelps family and their lawsuits using the name "church" to look more like an actual respectable organization.
If the campus police are sworn officers, they are real police, just working for a university rather than a city. I'd guess that a 911 call from campus would be routed to the campus police
This. I know at the U. of Alabama, the campus police are actually state troopers assigned to the university. The U is considered a state institution, so they get state troopers.
From a blog at The Atlantic:
If there is anything more pathetic than a presidential candidate who can't name the government departments he previously said he would eliminate, it is a group of college students rioting because a football coach they admired was fired for his indifference to allegations of child abuse leveled against one his assistants.
Here's a quote from one of the rioters: "We got rowdy, and we got maced," Jeff Heim, 19, said rubbing his red, teary eyes. "But make no mistake, the board started this riot by firing our coach. They tarnished a legend."
I am not one of those who argue that this country is in some sort of decline, but Mr. Heim does not symbolize an ascendant America.