I’m so proud of my high school for how they handled this. They respected free speech, and fought hate with love.
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From the San Jose Mercury News article:
On one side of Arastradero Road, the signs read “God hates you.” On the other side, they declared “God hates hate.”
Five protesters from the Topeka, Kan.-based Westboro Baptist Church came to Palo Alto’s Gunn High School and Stanford’s Taube Hillel House on Friday morning to espouse the anti-gay, anti-Semitic vitriol for which they’re known. They hurled blame for the cluster of Gunn student suicides on “cursed Bible-ignorant rebels” whose parents “taught them lies belched forth from the bowels of hell …”
“They’re sharing hate all over the place and we’re going to show it doesn’t affect us,” said 16-year-old Gunn sophomore Ilya Ryzhik.
Budak's Tumblr: From SF, but living in DC. Social Entrepreneur and Travel Writer. I like adventures, roadtrips, photography, California and empanadas.
