Members of the Westboro Baptist Church were met with a rainbow surprise when they arrived in Washington, D.C., to protest a local high school with a gay principal.

Wilson High School Principal Pete Cahall came out as gay last week at a Pride Day event at the school alongside D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and openly gay City Councilman David Catania....

But 1,000 students had already volunteered to participate in a counter-protest against WBC.

Photos from the counter-protest, which was organized by the Wilson Gay-Straight Alliance and Student Government Association, surfaced on social media. Images show groups of people holding rainbow-colored signs in support of the LGBT community.