<p>The Westboro Baptist Church will be picketing in the Harvard area in the very near future: once to picket the students and staff of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School on March
13th (11:10am - 11:45am), another to picket at Harvard on
March 20th (11:15am - 12:00pm, 12 Quincy Street).</p>
<p>They will shout things like "God Hates Fags", "God Hates America" and
"Thank God For AIDS" at passers-by, children and adults alike.</p>
<p>For those not familiar with this group, they're perhaps most
well-known for picketing the funerals of American soldiers, claiming
that God has killed them because America tolerates homosexuality.</p>
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Supposedly there will also be a bunch of people gathering together for a counterprotest. If anyone feels like joining the counterprotest or would like to see the WBC up-close, feel free to come. I think I might check it out or join the counterprotest if I'm in the area =P</p>
<p>I also figured they should be protesting MIT first since MIT is the more hedonistic one...</p>
<p>i’m from kansas. i am very familiar with WBC.</p>
<p>The best thing i’ve heard is people who raise money based on the number of minutes the protestors are there. So people pledge 10 cents per minute or something. Then give the money to AIDS research in WBC’s name and list their address. They get a complimentary thank you post card! A local highschool raised 13k that way. People don’t like them very much…</p>
<p>edit: I typed that all in caps to indicate I was yelling, but the CC mothership decided to silence me and auto transform it into lowercase. Thanks CC!</p>
<p>well, I have connections with the school and their students and here is the latest news from them on the upcoming protest: </p>
<p>The counterprotest will be at Joan Lorenz Park. This is at the corner of Ellery and Broadway.</p>
<p>Also, the school is doing some activities to promote their own diversity and stuff, except with the emphasis on themselves instead of the WBC, since the idea is to not focus on the hate but the love/tolerance. Take advantage of the opportunity to discuss this, but the focus shouldn’t even be given for a split second to WBC. This is all about accepting each other~ <3 etc. hehe. However, there will be the city policy to create “a buffer zone” because the school wants to continue on the normal school life, and not let the hate group disrupt the student life in any way. </p>
<p>capeesh? if you’re actually involved in organized (or disorganized, hey haha) counterprotest though, head over to the park (corner of Ellery and Broadway) and protest away! I’ll also be there because I’m also in the area. :)</p>
<p>Harvard University - Where is the wise, the scribe, etc?! 12 Quincy St We will picket this place of “higher learning” because they are a bunch of perverted FOOLS! They are that way because God has blinded their eyes, and hardened their hearts. All to glorify Himself, check this out - really smart puerile perverts! 1 Corinthians 1:17 ¶ For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. 18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. 20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. 22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: 23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; 24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. 25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: 27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; 28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: 29 That no flesh should glory in his presence. 30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: 31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. They have taught you ? God?s a liar Nothing left but torment in hell?s fire Big mouths running ? since you left the womb Now we stand here singing ? of your coming doom Angry brutes, God hates you These plain words, we?re here to tell Your proud sinning ? makes God angry Word to you ? next stop is hell AMEN!</p>
<p>I’d love to counterprotest but I’m afraid that getting arrested for GBH might hurt my college application. Well, that and the Atlantic ocean is annoyingly vast and in my way.</p>
<p>I just wish that any kind of counter protest would actually have some kind of effect on these people. They’re so full of hate it actually quite upsets me. It upsets me that any child is raised in a specific religion, but it really makes me angry that the children in the WBC are being taught this hatred. That’s no way to live your life :(</p>