{"id":521837,"date":"2010-04-09T11:38:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T15:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=81791"},"modified":"2010-04-09T11:38:20","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T15:38:20","slug":"bigoted-kansas-baptists-pick-latest-target-dead-west-virginia-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/521837","title":{"rendered":"Bigoted Kansas Baptists Pick Latest Target: Dead West Virginia Miners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just when you thought the story couldn’t get more infuriating<\/a>, there comes word that a handful of members of the Westboro Baptist Church have arrived in West Virginia.<\/p>\n

The Kansas-based independent hate group — best known for picketing military funerals<\/a> with signs proclaiming the soldiers’ deaths to be God’s punishment for the country’s tolerance of gays — has found a new target: the miners killed in Monday’s blast.\u00a0From The Charleston Gazette<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Only six Westboro pickets showed up in front of the Capitol, including two men, one woman and three young children. They held up signs proclaiming: “America Is Doomed,” “Thank God for Dead Miners,” “God Hates Your Tears,” “God Hates West Virginia” and “God Hates You.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The story ends well. More than 300 locals came out in a peaceful counter-protest that swamped the small group of bigots.<\/p>\n

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Local people peacefully overwhelmed the Westboro group. They carried their own signs, including: “I Love Everyone” and “God Bless Our Troops and Veterans.”<\/p>\n

Others signs had humorous messages: “This is a Sign” and “God Hates Signs.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“I think it is amazing the whole community came out for this,” said one local.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just when you thought the story couldn’t get more infuriating, there comes word that a handful of members of the Westboro Baptist Church have arrived in West Virginia. The Kansas-based independent hate group — best known for picketing military funerals with signs proclaiming the soldiers’ deaths to be God’s punishment for the country’s tolerance of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}