Westboro Baptist Church Protest

The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is an independent Baptist church known for its extreme stance against homosexuality and its protest activities, which includes picketing funerals such as Christina Greens, the 9 yr old victim at the Arizona shooting. The church is widely described as a hate group and is monitored as such by the Anti-Defamation League andSouthern Poverty Law Center. It is headed by Fred Phelps and consists mostly of members of his large family, in 2007, it had 71 members. ( sample text, Wikipedia)

I think the real victim here are the children who participate in these hate protests. These images reminded me of girl i knew in High School. She was really very quit and kept to herself. She was really plain looking, dress mostly in sprot clothing and sported a short crops do. the whole look made it easy to mistake her for a kind of husky boy. One day i noticed a pin on her jersey, don't know why i asked about it. Not like i was the most out going then either. She told me it was for her youth group, it stood for Kindness, Karing, and Kindship.....KKK. She said it in such a calm, simple way that I didn't even register what she was saying at the time. Sometimes when that stuff is apart of your way of life, it just seems like just that a way of life. Like eating cereal in the morning or wearing a certain kind of socks. when you are young you don't take note of things sometimes in the same way you would as an adult. I always wonder about her now, as an adult.