EAST LANSING –
As BTL goes to press the community in East Lansing and around the region, have been meeting and discussing the best way to respond to the announcement by Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, that they are planning on protesting East Lansing High School. The reason they have given is that the students dared to engage in the civic dialog by writing letters to WBC challenging their behavior. The WBC responded and are now protesting the high school itself, referring to the students as "brats" and saying the district is full of "fags" and "degenerates."
The community will be hosting safe space dialog locations in local LGBT affirming churches, as well as allowing those who want to protest to do so at the church lot of one of these churches.
The students at East Lansing High School also decided to ask anyone who is protesting to donate some money to a collection.
Please go to this site below, and sign the petition in support of the students at East Lansing High school. http://www.change.org/unity_in_our_community/petitions/view/thank_the_east_lansing_high_school_students_for_standing_up_to_hate.
East Lansing High target of Westboro hate
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