Westboro Protests Outside NBA Finals

[w8liftinglady]

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/06/06/Westboro_Protests_Outside_NBA_Finals/

Members of the Westboro Baptist Chruch protested a new NBA policy against antigay slurs on Sunday night outside game three of the league finals in Dallas.

KDAF-TV reports on the small, hour-long protest outside the American Airlines Center, which befuddled some fans who arrived to watch the Dallas Mavericks play the Miami Heat. The antigay Westboro Baptist Church criticized a new policy against gay slurs that already has resulted in fines for players including Kobe Bryant and Joakim Noah.

"Now David Stern, the tyrant commissioner of the NBA is jamming a message down the throat of America that not only is it okay to be gay but you don't even want to use the word gay in a negative connotation,” said protester Steve Drain, according to KDAF-TV.

While one spectator described the protest as “sad and ridiculous,” one unidentified man rallied people in counter-protest, the station reported.

[RZM]

1. Wonder what the signs said . . .

'God Loves Kobe Bryant'

'Stern deserves a technical'

'The NBA is only slightly less homoerotic than the NFL'

[Taverner]

2. “sad and ridiculous”

They arrive by night in a flash of white
Carrying their signs and closing their minds
They all wish they could be
Taking it up the ass from a rubber weenie
But no they gotta protest
Our nations' beloved excess
God hates Phelps!
God hates Phelps!

They show up at your door asking for more
Taking their lies and letting in flies
They'd rather be sucking a meat lolly
And indulging in gay folly
But no they gotta protest
Our nations' beloved excess
God hates Phelps!
God hates Phelps

[Vanje]

3. What!? God Hates Basketball too? nt