Westboro Baptist Church

Leave it to Dave Grohl to protest hate speech with a 2007 Internet meme.

So, I grew up in Kansas. When you tell people you are from Kansas there are 2 things they are usually going to reference: 1) The Wizard of Oz 2) The Westboro Baptist Church and their leader Fred Phelps I would gladly hear a million more jokes about Dorothy and Toto then ever hear another thing about the WBC...

The Westboro Baptist Church, which is notorious for picketing the the funerals of U.S. military personnel and blaming the servicemen’s deaths on the United States’ acceptance of homosexuality, got a taste of its own medicine on Friday when the Foo Fighters staged a counter protest of the church’s picketing of the band’s show that night in Kansas City.

The Westboro Baptist Church has made a name for itself by protesting funerals of fallen soldiers and celebrities in order to get media attention, while being allowed to under protection of the First Amendment.  As no one could legally stop them from protesting a funeral, finally people took other means of stopping them...