Westboro church’s first protest after founder’s death met by counterprotest… Outside Lorde concert, signs read ‘Sorry for your loss,’ ‘Live your life and be awesome’
By Dylan Stableford, Yahoo News
Westboro Baptist Church protesters demonstrating outside of a Lorde concert in Kansas City, Mo., over the weekend were met with an unusual counterprotest.
On Friday, two days after the death of Westboro’s founding pastor, Fred Phelps, about 20 members of the church — holding signs that read “God Hates Sluts” among other messages — were greeted by demonstrators with banners that read, “Sorry for your loss” and “Live your life and be awesome.”
“We realized that it wasn’t so much about antagonizing them,” Megan Coleman, who helped create one of the counterprotest signs, told KSHB-TV. “We are here for people who need that message and need that positivity.”
The counterdemonstration was, in part, inspired by the New Zealand pop singer herself.
After the Topeka-based church announced it would protest Lorde’s show because “the young lady has not been taught and will not teach young women to be sober and godly,” she encouraged fans on Twitter to attend the concert dressed in rainbow colors and kiss Westboro protesters of the same sex.
Westboro members appeared unmoved.
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