Thursday, January 28th members of the Westboro Baptist Church, now famous for their picket signs declaring “God Hates Fags” (and domain name www.godhatesfags.com), will aim their protests at a new target: Twitter.
Chief among their protest tools will be…Twitter.
Church members have planned what appears to be a massively convoluted and confusing protest simultaneously against and for the wildly popular micro-blogging site. They will gather between 4:30 and 5:00pm local time outside the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco.
The official line from the church about why they’re protesting Twitter appears to simply be because they can. At the same time, they’re also protesting plans by the Obama administration to restrict freedom of speech via methods like Twitter, and will themselves be tweeting from their anti-Twitter picket lines.
If it’s making your head spin, try reading the statement from the church’s web site. “Now that should get interesting, WBC member(s) Tweeting as they picket outside Twitter, Inc. Won’t a black hole or something open in the space/time vortex? Seriously, let us focus in on a few facts, to wit: Twitter is a company which lends itself to mass communication. Why in heaven’s name would the great publishers at WBC NOT picket this place?”
On the pro-Twitter side, the church site states, “Obama’s about to take away any/all resources like Twitter to serve him and his Antichristic agenda, so enjoy this freedom while it lasts a little longer. Praise God! AMEN!”
If you can make any sense of this protest whatsoever, please leave a comment and help the rest of us figure it out!
