God Loves Gay Robin: Comic Fans Trounce Westboro Baptist Church

[crabby_lioness]

Some people you simply shouldn't mess with.  Westboro Baptist Church decided to pick a fight with comic geeks by picketing the San Diego Comic-Con with their personal brand of hatred and embarrassing behavior for "worshiping false idols".   BIG MISTAKE.

Comic geeks picketing the WBC right back, outnumbering the WBC by at least 20 - 1.  They wore their cosplays getups and carried signs saying, "God Loves Gay Robin", "Odin is God", "Superman Loves Fags", "God Needs a Starship", as well as protest signs from several different comic book and sci/fi movie plotlines.  A monster held up a sign offering "Free Hugs", a pair of dominatrices offered "Free Spankings For Jesus", and Jesus himself gave the geeks his blessing.

 Moral:  DON'T MESS WITH GEEKS, FOR THEY WILL MESS WITH YOU RIGHT BACK AND THEY ARE BETTER AT IT THAN YOU.

  Pictures here.

ETA More pictures here.  Thanks parsimonia!

ETA 2 Comic Alliance pictures.  Thanks hallidae!

ETA 3 Video Thanks Afterelton.com!

ETA 4 Salon reporter attempts conversation with WBC supporter

ETA 5 Bleeding Cool's videos

Some days my people make me so proud.

Comments

[badficwriter.livejournal.com]

I know a lot of people are saying any attention to these people is bad..but I see their sentiments too commonly to think ignoring them will make that go away. I much prefer the counter-protest of love and joy and humor!

Favorite comment so far: "I thought Jesus was especially good."

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

Because ignoring the schoolyard bullies worked soooo well....

Adverse as I am to confrontation, the only effective way to deal with bullies is to laugh at them and let them see they can't get under your skin. They see you ignoring them as a challenge.