Westboro Baptist Church Neighbor House Painted Rainbow For Gay Pride (VIDEO)
March 19, 2013
Posted by: Samuel Warde
http://samuel-warde.com/2013/03/westboro-baptist-church-neighbor-house-painted-rainbow-for-gay-pride-video/The Westboro Baptist Church is in for a big surprise as Aaron Jackson, one of the founders of Planting Peace, a multi-pronged charity, purchased a house across the street from their headquarters in Topeka, Kansas and painted it rainbow colors today.
Jackson decided to paint the house the rainbow colors of the gay flag as a means of protest against the gay bashing tactics of the Westboro Baptist Church.
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"I didn't know anything about the church or where they were located, but that story kept popping up. And one night I wondered, Where is this church? I got on Google Earth, and I was 'walking down the road,' and I did a 360 view. And I saw a 'For Sale' sign sitting in the front yard of a house. Right away it hit me, Oh my gosh, I could buy a house in front of the WBC! And immediately I thought: And I'm going to paint that thing the color of the pride flag."
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Rainbow flag painted on house across from Westboro Baptist Church
MSN News 3 hr ago By Riya Bhattacharjee of MSN News
http://news.msn.com/us/rainbow-flag-painted-on-house-across-from-westboro-baptist-church#tscptmfThe Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., might have finally met its match.
The church, which is known for its extreme ideologies and anti-gay views, now has a neighbor swathed in the rainbow colors of the gay pride flag.
Non-profit Planting Peace bought a house across from the church – notorious for its "God hates ->-bleeped-<-s" and "God hates America" slogans – and decided to turn it into a gay rights center, according to
Gawker.com.
The house – which has been named "Equality House" – even has a pride flag flying from a 30-foot pole.
This Twitter video gives a good idea of the proximity of the house to the church.
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Noah Michelson
Carol Hartsell
Westboro Equality House: Aaron Jackson Paints Rainbow Home Across From Anti-Gay Church
Posted: 03/19/2013 9:55 am EDT | Updated: 03/19/2013 7:06 pm EDT
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/19/westboro-equality-house-aaron-jackson-rainbow_n_2906337.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopularThe Westboro Baptist Church is about to get a big surprise in the form of a new neighbor who plans to give the notoriously anti-gay group a taste of its own medicine.
Aaron Jackson, one of the founders of Planting Peace, a multi-pronged charity that has in the past concentrated on rainforest conservation, opening orphanages and deworming programs, bought a house that sits directly across from the church's compound six months ago. On Tuesday, March 19, he and a team of volunteers are painting it to match the gay pride flag.
The project -- which the nonprofit is calling the "Equality House" -- is the first in a new campaign Planting Peace plans to wage against the group. Westboro is known for its intimidating tactics of protesting (or threatening to protest) what they refer to as America's pro-gay, anti-God agenda, in close proximity to pride parades, soldier funerals and other events like the Sandy Hook memorial services.
