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WillParkinson

(16,862 posts)
Mon May 21, 2012, 08:21 PM May 2012

Long Beach Wilson High Students Drown Out Anti-Gay Protestors

http://www.lbpost.com/ryan/8485

5:00pm Friday | Thousands of Wilson High students staged a peaceful rally against a handful of anti-gay protestors outside their campus this afternoon.

Demonstrators from the Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas planned to stage an anti-gay demonstration outside the campus but were drowned out by the peaceful but spirited cries from students that spilled into the streets under police supervision.

"They wanted to make the school proud," said Wilson High co-principal Sandy Blazer. "It was a nice, peaceful day considering we had 4,500 kids out here. I knew they would protest hate in a respectful way."

LBUSD Superintendent Chris Steinhauser was also on hand.

"The kids and others that came did a great job of passive resistance," he said. "It was a great day where Long Beach came out to say that hatred is not in the heart of this community."

(I can't get the video to come up, but there are links on the page that will take you to pictures of the event.)
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Long Beach Wilson High Students Drown Out Anti-Gay Protestors (Original Post) WillParkinson May 2012 OP
Awesome story. n/t laconicsax May 2012 #1
Proud to be a "worthless god-hating brute" Fearless May 2012 #2

Fearless

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2. Proud to be a "worthless god-hating brute"
Mon May 21, 2012, 11:18 PM
May 2012

As they labeled the high school students in the video. Because, anything that the WBC despises can't be all that bad.

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