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More Quality Signage From Creative Counter-Protesters

By Bruce Carton

As particularly attentive readers of LBW know (such readers exist, right?), I have a soft spot for counter-protesters, particularly for their signs. I love the people who counter-protest against the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC is a Kansas church that thinks it is a good idea to picket funerals, among other things) by breaking out signs of their own, like the ones below: Of course I also liked the strippers who counter-protested in front of the New Beginnings Ministries church in Warsaw, Ohio when they became fed up with church members protesting outside of their strip club. And so as an amateur connoisseur of counter-protest signs, I was quite impressed with the effort below that not only plays off of the infamous "God Hates Fags" signs, but also appears to have some biblical support: Mark 11:12-14 actually reads: The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. Then he said to the tree, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again." And...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on November 01, 2010 (boomark / email).