Protest the protesters

This video is given the headline “Gays Target Church Known For Gay Bashing” on the CNN home page.

I feel like that is pretty big baiting because in that usage, target has a negative connotation, to me it sounded like “gays” were attacking people or something.

The video itself is very interesting, I think it is great that the gay community organized a protest against the Westboro Baptist Church, a church that will protest almost anything (including soldiers funerals) just to spread their hate and apparent failure at life. The church’s lawyer is quoted in the video as saying that God is intolerant, along with many other ridiculous things.

To be honest, my only objection to the protest/video is that it gives even more press to the church. If no one was hearing about what they did, would they bother staging large scale protests? The power of the media is strong and sometimes it can be used to discourage wrong-doings, catch violent criminals, etc., but sometimes, I just encourages them.