Shades of "To Wong Foo"

[Shana A]

Tuesday, November 25, 2008Posted by Lena Dahlstrom   at 12:20 AM

    Shades of "To Wong Foo"   

At least 150 locals in Silverton, OR showed their support for the first openly transgender/gender queer person elected major -- Stu Rasmussen, who sees himself as male but who had breast implants and presents himself as a woman -- drastically outnumbering the quartet of Westboro haters who had come to protest and get their media fix.

Best sign of the day: "My love is bigger than your hate." And there was this heart-warming encounter:
A woman pushing a baby jogger past City Hall did a doubletake on her run, backing up to question 16-year-old Victoria Phelps, whose family runs the small Kansas church.

"I'm a Christian," Lesley Brighton said, clearly perplexed by the girl's "God Hates ->-bleeped-<-s" sign. "This is some kind of joke, right?"