Westboro Baptist Busy in South Florida

That's video of a demonstrator from gay-hating Westboro Baptist Church, shot yesterday near Spanish River High School in Boca Raton, where according to reports, the kids were on lockdown. Judging by the other videos, the Westboro folks were outnumbered by an enthusiastic batch of counter-protesters. (It's because we warned you...

By Thomas Francis

December 16, 2009

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That's video of a demonstrator from gay-hating Westboro Baptist Church, shot yesterday near Spanish River High School in Boca Raton, where according to reports, the kids were on lockdown. Judging by the other videos, the Westboro folks were outnumbered by an enthusiastic batch of counter-protesters. (It's because we warned you they were coming, right?)

Another pack of Westboro whack jobs are in Miami, singing a Christmas carol in which parents and children cast Jews, gays and the unlucky "Miss Stewart" from the Miami Police Department into the flames of hell. That adorably hateful video, after the jump.

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