Friday, April 23, 2010

Anti-gay group gets chilly reception in Boulder

"Members of the radical Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church arrived in Boulder on Thursday for three days of protests in Colorado. The group is infamous for their tactics which include picket signs with obscene language targeting gays, catholics and jews. With shouting, angry counter-protesters surrounding them outside Boulder High School they waved their signs at traffic, passing on Arapahoe Avenue," reports KDVR.com. "As with most of their protests across the country, there were at least 20 times as many counter protesters waiting for the Westboro group as they travelled to three locations in Boulder. The group plans protests in the Denver area through Saturday." READ MORE