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AsahinaKimi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-28-09 08:00 PM
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Kansas bigotry falls flat at Brooklyn synagogues
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Edited on Mon Sep-28-09 08:01 PM by AsahinaKimi
Source: The Brooklyn Paper



A handful of hateful Midwesterner’s brought their anti-Semitic and anti-gay message to two Brownstone Brooklyn synagogues on Saturday — where they were met with anger, condemnation, and some old-fashioned chutzpah.

Though the events remained peaceful, members of the Westboro Baptist Church — a Kansas-based religious sect that regularly protests against Jews, gays, President Obama, fallen soldiers and just about everything else that Brooklynites know and love — tried as hard as they could to provoke passersby when they gathered in front Congregation Beth Elohim on Eighth Avenue in Park Slope and the Kane Street Synagogue in Cobble Hill in the midst of the Jewish high holy days.


Read more: http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/32/39/32_39_bm_westboro_protests_saturday.html



So they protested Islam, now those of the Jewish faith, and I guess Buddhists will be next?
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