....if it already hasn't done so. Getting ready to protest a group that is getting ready to protest and then finding out the party of the first part isn't going to become the party of the second part is akin to parents ignoring tantrums by their children. Hopefully they recycle their signs.
Anti-gay protesters fail to show in T.O. |
What happens when protesters being protested don't protest?
At least that's what appeared to happen yesterday outside The Cameron House at Queen and Cameron Sts. at 7 p.m.
More than 100 people turned out to protest Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church, who were supposed to be there protesting a play about Phelps.
The Westboro Baptist Church is infamous for anti-gay protests at, among other things, the funerals of people who have died from AIDS.
They had planned -- and even advertised on their website godhatesfags.com -- on protesting one of the city's Summerworks theatre festival plays called "The Pastor Phelps Project."
On their website, the group claims, "The Pastor Phelps Project is a tacky bit of filthy sodomite propaganda with no literary merit and zero redeeming social value, masquerading as legitimate theatre."
"God Hates Canada -- Land of the Sodomites," the press release states.
But Phelps and his followers, who at times number more than 70, were a no-show last night in Toronto
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