# coming to a school near you **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 9, 2012, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coming-to-a-school-near-you/615228 "2012-03-09T03:25:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coming-to-a-school-near-you/615228/1 "2012-03-09T03:25:57Z")
Oh I’m HOT!!! HOT!!! HOT!!! HOT!!! and its not the unseasonably warm weather Today my son comes home from school and informs me that a certain unnamed group of vitriol spewing brain dead nutcases, who think they have a direct hot line to their own personal hate filled spook in the sky, are holding a protest by his school. what the fuck!!! Funerals aren’t a low enough target, now you are picketing schools!! Do you think - well obviously not how could you when there couldn’t be more than 10 brains cells between you - that kids are an appropriate audience? Have all the fucking free speech you want and assemble your stinky skanky herd of mouth breathing shit spewers all you want but fucking leave kids alone. You scheduled your fucking hate fest just when school lets out so the kids will have to walk past you and nobody should have to suffer you on the same planet let alone the same block. You will be closing roads and tying up traffic and for what? Nobody but NOBODY wants to hear your shit!!! The school doesn’t want you here, the kids don’t want you here, the parents don’t want you here and I sure as fuck don’t want you anywhere near my son. Don’t your bellies get raw from all the slithering? Or have you built up callouses? If I was your own special spook in the sky I’d strike you all down because you’d be an fucking embarrassment to me. If you are the best he could come up then he must be nothing more than a big lump of impotent cow pies . If there is a hell you belong roasting in the deepest pit, with a skewer shoved so far up your ass that your shit will be scraped off on your teeth, rotating until your skin melts and your eyeballs pop. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coming-to-a-school-near-you/615228/2 "2012-03-09T03:44:09Z")
I assume you’re talking about Westboro Baptist Church, given the reference to funerals, but it would be helpful if you spent less time typing “fuck” and more time offering context. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coming-to-a-school-near-you/615228/3 "2012-03-09T03:48:35Z")
Westboro announces plans to protest about 10 times more places than they actually protest. They’re really losing their sparkle. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coming-to-a-school-near-you/615228/4 "2012-03-09T04:04:13Z")
Now I’m imagining bedazzled god hates fags signs. They’re pretty, but hurtful. ---
**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coming-to-a-school-near-you/615228/5 "2012-03-09T04:09:24Z")
> [@sahirrnee](#): > > Have all the fucking free speech you want and assemble your stinky skanky herd of mouth breathing shit spewers all you want but fucking leave kids alone. I find your naivete charming. It’s like you actually \*believe \*that your child isn’t getting bombarded with a zillion messages every day on moral/ethical/religious issues. Either that, or you believe that free speech directed at children is fine, sol long as the speakers agree with you. Either way, it’s charming. You are certainly the type of person who should be raising a child. ---
**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coming-to-a-school-near-you/615228/6 "2012-03-09T04:10:25Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Now I’m imagining bedazzled god hates fags signs. They’re pretty, but hurtful. They’re more than pretty. They’re faaaabulous. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coming-to-a-school-near-you/615228/7 "2012-03-09T04:36:15Z")
I wasn’t sure if I was allowed to actually name them. Now I know. Yes they are coming, already heard from the school, police will be there, roads will be closed. It’s not the first time they have done a school in this area. I am well aware that my son sees all kinds messages on religious, moral and ethical issues. I hear his opinion on them everyday. However, for a hate group to specifically target a school is fucked up. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coming-to-a-school-near-you/615228/8 "2012-03-09T04:49:31Z")
Get your own sign and protest their protest. ---
**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coming-to-a-school-near-you/615228/9 "2012-03-09T04:52:41Z")
> [@sahirrnee](#): > > However, for a hate group to specifically target a school is fucked up. You do realise that they agree with that statement, right? ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coming-to-a-school-near-you/615228/10 "2012-03-09T05:13:06Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I assume you’re talking about Westboro Baptist Church, given the reference to funerals, but it would be helpful if you spent less time typing “fuck” and more time offering context. Fuck that. This is the mother fucking pit. And the motherfucking pit. Shouldn’t we be at the point where a Westboro protest become like the Rocky Horror Picture Show? They protest, and 10 times the number of people show up and make a mockery of their protest? “Hey, you’re protesting? In public? Here, let us join you! You don’t mind if we bring this goat, do you?” ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coming-to-a-school-near-you/615228/11 "2012-03-09T13:59:13Z")
Any chance you’ll get round to eventually telling us _why_ they are protesting your son’s school? I mean, I know you’re ‘hot’ and all. And they hardly need a reason, Lord knows. But what, exactly, will they be protesting at this school? Free condoms? Gay teachers? If you want us on board with you, give us some info to go on, damn it! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coming-to-a-school-near-you/615228/12 "2012-03-09T14:30:56Z")
Come on, y’all. **sahirrnee** is brand new and I think that’s a very nice Pitting, especially the last sentence. So…visual. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coming-to-a-school-near-you/615228/13 "2012-03-09T14:38:52Z")
> [@sahirrnee](#): > > Yes they are coming, … The past few years, they’ve begun to announce that they’re going to protest at just about everything, and then don’t show up. If I were you, I’d assume the school is being trolled. ---
**Author:** ![Latro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a87d85/32.png) [@Latro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latro)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coming-to-a-school-near-you/615228/14 "2012-03-09T14:50:09Z")
> [@sahirrnee](#): > > If there is a hell you belong roasting in the deepest pit, with a skewer shoved so far up your ass that your shit will be scraped off on your teeth, rotating until your skin melts and your eyeballs pop. Uhmm.. if there indeed is a hell…uhm wouldn’t that mean that _they_ had it right all along? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coming-to-a-school-near-you/615228/15 "2012-03-09T14:56:27Z")
> [@Latro](#): > > Uhmm.. if there indeed is a hell…uhm wouldn’t that mean that _they_ had it right all along? Not necessarily. There would also be the issue of who would be sent there. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coming-to-a-school-near-you/615228/16 "2012-03-09T15:50:54Z")
It just occurred to me that the incorrect use of scare quotes changes the whole meaning of their name - The Westboro “Baptist” “Church.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coming-to-a-school-near-you/615228/17 "2012-03-09T16:02:55Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > It just occurred to me that the incorrect use of scare quotes changes the whole meaning of their name - The Westboro “Baptist” “Church.” 🙂 Westboro “Baptist” Church sounds like they drown the heathens. ---
**Author:** ![wellanuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@wellanuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wellanuff)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coming-to-a-school-near-you/615228/18 "2012-03-09T16:19:10Z")
It shouldn’t be too hard for reasonably intelligent, motivated, and creative school administrators, faculty, and parents to turn such an event into an excellent learning opportunity about free speech rights, hate speech, right to protest, freedom to ignore protests, etc., at a level that is age appropriate for your school. I mean, it sucks to have your kid have to see some adult shrieking “God hates fags” or whatever bile they come up with, but they can learn a lot about our rights as Americans and the proper use and abuse of those rights. The kids, I mean. The protestors are probably a lost cause. Just seeing adults the kids know and trust exhibit calm scorn and disdain for such foaming, rabid vileness would be a good thing, I would think. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coming-to-a-school-near-you/615228/19 "2012-03-09T16:20:36Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > .. \… Shouldn’t we be at the point where a Westboro protest become like the Rocky Horror Picture Show? They protest, and 10 times the number of people show up and make a mockery of their protest? > > “Hey, you’re protesting? In public? Here, let us join you! You don’t mind if we bring this goat, do you?” I wholeheartedly support this idea and, although I cannot at the moment supply either a goat or a bedazzler, I can provide toast. What costumes should we wear? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coming-to-a-school-near-you/615228/20 "2012-03-09T17:40:21Z")
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