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MNBrewer

(8,462 posts)
8. From my perspective, that Westboro does more good for GLBT people than harm,
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 04:10 PM
Aug 2012

I think it's a terrible thing to ban them. However, I also have noted that hardly anyone OTHER than GLBT people even knew about Westboro before they started protesting military funerals. Once they showed up protesting funerals OTHER than GLBT people, THEN the shit hit the fan for them. On the whole, straight America doesn't really care that much about us (they wish we would shut up and go back in the closet, really). When Westboro protested "true American heroes who died in the service of their country", straight America sat up and payed attention.

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