Fred Phelps coming to Massachusetts June 4-6

http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/37029/index.php

Anti-Gay Activists Plan Demonstrations in Massachusetts
by Chip Littlefield

19 May 2005
Modified: 11:11:35 PM

Fred Phelps, the infamous Pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, who gained notoriety for picketing the funeral of Matthew Shepherd, is coming to Lowell, Lexington, Brookline and Dracut, Massachusetts to spread his message of hatred and intolerance toward homosexuals, and homosexual sympathizers.

On June 4th and 5th they will be at various Lexington churches with signs reading, “Fags Die, God Laughs,” “AIDS Cures Fags” and other hateful slogans. Sunday, June 5th at 1:00 PM, they will be at Brookline High School, which they have dubbed a, “sodomite whorehouse and fag dating service masquerading as Brookline High School.” Also on Sunday, at 3:30 PM and 5:00 PM, they will be at the Tsongas Arena in Lowell, MA, to protest Lexington High School’s graduation ceremonies. On Monday, June 6th at 8:00 AM, they will demonstrate outside Joseph Estabrook School before moving on to the Lexington Public Schools administration office (1557 Massachusetts Ave.) at 9:00 AM. At 9:15 AM, they will also be at Englesby Intermediate School in Dracut. The reason for their appearance at Englesby is in response to an article a twelve-year-old girl wrote in a “women in history” report on comedian Ellen DeGeneres.

Phelps’ website (http://www.godhatesfags.com) says that it has chosen Massachusetts because it is a “Satanic Zeitgeist wherein filthy, militant fags and dykes have seized control of Massachusetts’ government, sending feces-eaters to congress, and homosexual marriage is law.”

Counter-demonstrations are already in the works for Lowell and Dracut, and organizers hope for a sizable turnout against the intolerant hate-speech of Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church. All who are opposed to Phelps’ presence and message are urged to attend and show him and his followers that Massachusetts won’t stand for antipathy toward our GLBT allies.

The picket schedule from Phelps' website:

June 4, 2005
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Lexington, MA
St. Brigid Catholic Church, 2001 Massachusetts Ave.

June 5, 2005
9:00 am – 9:30 am
Lexington, MA
Lexington United Methodist Church, 2600 Massachusetts Ave.

June 5, 2005
9:30 am – 10:00 am
Lexington, MA
Church of Our Redeemer, 6 Meriam St.

June 5, 2005
9:30 am – 10:00 am
Lexington, MA
Hancock United Church of Christ, 1912 Massachusetts Ave.

June 5, 2005
10:00 am – 10:30 am
Lexington, MA
First Baptist Church, 1580 Massachusetts Ave.

June 5, 2005
11:00 am – 11:30 am
Lexington, MA
St. Brigid Catholic Church, 2001 Massachusetts Ave.

June 5, 2005
12:15 pm – 1:00 pm
Brookline, MA
Brookline High School, 115 Greenough St., for the Brookline High School graduation

June 5, 2005
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Lowell, MA
Tsongas Arena, 300 Arcand Ave.

June 5, 2005
5:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Lowell, MA
Tsongas Arena, 300 Arcand Ave.

June 6, 2005
8:00 am – 8:30 am
Lexington, MA
Joseph Estabrook Elementary School, 117 Grove St.

June 6, 2005
9:15 am – 9:45 am
Dracut, MA
Englesby Intermediate School, 1580 Lakeview Avenue

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I guess he wants to make sure and be clear by the time all those militant homosechshools show up to kick his ass eh?

Also, I live like 5 minutes walk from Tsongas Arena, I'd be happy to stroll down and get some photos of the slimeball if anyone wants any.

provoked two men who later said they barely knew each other to go into a big, long lasting soul kiss right in front of him.

I shudder to think what the poor delicate little flower is going to face back home in Massachusetts.

I have great faith that folks in my former home will come up with something.

is for everyone to just ignore him. Without publicity he and his little band of camera-loving hatebags is dead. A good fight breaking out is just what he wants. Or at least counter-demonstrations.

That tight schedule gurantees someone is going to try to take him on.

But, if the local gay community could arrange to just follow him around and hang out, arm in arm without fanfare signs or yelling, that might just give him the palpitations.