Tomorrow and Saturday morning the bigots from the Westboro Baptist Church will be out to inform us all that “God hates fags”, and even that “God hates you”. If you do believe in a god, these people probably don’t represent your views, so whether you’re religious or not, if you live in the Phoenix area you may want to come down and show them that we don’t accept their message of hate.

You should be aware that the last time these people scheduled a protest here, they didn’t even show up, but this is a much more full schedule so they are most likely going to be here. You can find a list of their scheduled events on their site, but make sure you check it again before you go out because they have changed it recently and they could change it again.

If you still aren’t sure why we’re opposing them, here is a quote from their site about one of the events tomorrow:

Greenwood Memor Lawn Serenity Chapel 2300 W. Van Buren Funeral of Army Staff Sgt. Roberto Anrade — Look what the Lord our God has done! He is pouring His wrath out on this nation, focusing on your military. So here we were, already planning to be in your area to warn you to put away your idols and your grevious sins against God. Then, our God killed one of your own at such as time as to allow us to be there, near the funeral, to connect the dots directly in front of your face: because you will not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, He has killed another of your rebels in uniform! Thank God for dead soldiers. God is your enemy. America is doomed.

Just as we were reexamining and improving our methods when 2008 began, we will usher in 2009 the same way. Overall this has been a successful year for us, but some of us are beginning to look for better methods to not only maintain our strengths, but also to find and eliminate our weaknesses so that we can be more effective in meeting any goals we set for ourselves.

One of the best ways to identify our weaknesses is to get feedback from new people who aren’t already used to being out there with us. New people can provide insights into things that we are unlikely to see on our own. So even if you don’t think that you want to participate, but you still want to help, you can do it by giving us some constructive criticism.

We also plan to go out and oppose the Westboro Baptist Bigot Church when they’re here in late January, so keep an eye out for the event and details to be posted.

I know it’s cold out, but this is still an important time for us to maintain our presence on Mill and to start making some positive changes before the flood of students comes back for the spring semester, so if you’ve been coming out then please continue, and if you haven’t then it’s a good time to start!