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Pokemon Go Trolls Westboro Baptist Church, WBC Attempt To Reverse-Troll Backfires Hilariously
If you haven’t noticed already, you’re about to. Suddenly everyone’s playing, Pokémon Go. Soon you’ll notice masses of people gathered in one spot, say a public park, holding their phones in the air. Pokémon Go is an app that demands its users collect Pokémon (short for pocket monsters) that are hanging out in real spots around the globe (in augmented reality).
In the game, certain locations are named as “gyms” where you can battle your Pokemon against another team’s Pokemon. The Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas was designated as one such gym and a team has taken it over using a monster called a Clefairy. That Clefairy is named, appropriately, “LOVEISLOVE”.
http://www.towleroad.com/2016/07/pokemon-go-westboro/
In the game, certain locations are named as “gyms” where you can battle your Pokemon against another team’s Pokemon. The Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas was designated as one such gym and a team has taken it over using a monster called a Clefairy. That Clefairy is named, appropriately, “LOVEISLOVE”.
http://www.towleroad.com/2016/07/pokemon-go-westboro/
Now cue the whambulance!
The church responded to the stunt via Twitter, employing images from Pokémon to spread its anti-LGBTQ message.
“We recruited Jigglypuff to deal with the sodomite loveislove Clefairy for us,” the WBC tweeted.
Church elder Steve Drain told USA Today that the church uses whatever tools they can to get their message across – even if that instrument may be a false idol.
“We try to speak whatever language is being spoken,” Drain said.
“This little church, as despised and vilified as we are, the location of this church will be memorialised throughout eternity,” he added. “We’re willing by God’s grace to say that homosexuality is wrong, and that’s what we’ve been known for, even though we preach the whole counsel of God.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/pokemon-go-westboro-baptist-church-lgbtq-claims-clefairy-loveislove-a7131706.html
“We recruited Jigglypuff to deal with the sodomite loveislove Clefairy for us,” the WBC tweeted.
Church elder Steve Drain told USA Today that the church uses whatever tools they can to get their message across – even if that instrument may be a false idol.
“We try to speak whatever language is being spoken,” Drain said.
“This little church, as despised and vilified as we are, the location of this church will be memorialised throughout eternity,” he added. “We’re willing by God’s grace to say that homosexuality is wrong, and that’s what we’ve been known for, even though we preach the whole counsel of God.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/pokemon-go-westboro-baptist-church-lgbtq-claims-clefairy-loveislove-a7131706.html
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