Westboro Baptist Threatening to Protest Outside Maryland High School

The Westboro Baptist Church, now notorious for staging virulently anti-homosexual protests at military funerals, has announced the group’s intention to rally outside of Walt Whitman High School in Montgomery County, Maryland in April. As quoted in the WashingtonPost, an email from a church representative stated, “The children that attend that high school are taught Rebellion Against God 101 every day in every way.”  Vowing not to allow any protest to disrupt school operations, Walt Whitman’s principal sent the following statement to parents: 

In his poetry, Whitman celebrates individual spirit, celebrates our nation as the center of democratic values, and celebrates nature, Unfortunately, there is a small group of persons who want to defile his name because Walt Whitman may have been homosexual.

JFB