National Atheist Party invites Westboro Church to Reason Rally

[m.condon]

[Buddy]

I don't know about you guys, but I really want to see the Westboro's reply.

[Firebird]

What are you hoping to show by extending this invitation?

[Whitney]

What are you hoping to show by extending this invitation?

I'm wondering that too because I can't think of anything productive.

[Stevil]

I would love to have my face up on a "God hates Atheists" picket board.
I would cherish it forever.

[Asmodean]

What are you hoping to show by extending this invitation?

I'm wondering that too because I can't think of anything productive.

Why can't the whole point be to annoy them slightly? 

[Tank]

Mixed feelings about this. Frankly WBC thrive on publicity, so they'd love to come. I would have thought the majority of the attendees would want to see the WBC at RR as much as they would like to contract Aids. What if there's a punch up? Are NAP going to be responsible? Are there any other theist organisations being invited to attend? Was this invite approved by the RR organisers or not?

[Ali]

What are you hoping to show by extending this invitation?

I'm wondering that too because I can't think of anything productive.

Why can't the whole point be to annoy them slightly? 

Yeah.  I can't really think of anything productive that will come of it, but I'm childish enough to be fine with atheists (and anyone else for that matter) poking the WBC with a stick whenever they feel like it. 

[Crow]

What! That's a silly idea.

So lets say they do decide to attend the event and the media gets wind of it, they are going to be present because they have been invited by The National Atheist Party. Westboro baptist church is probably one of the most disliked group in America, and atheists don't exactly have a good public image in the States either, so why would you want to be associated with them in the slightest, you might say it's to show the National Atheist Party are accepting of the diversity and free speech of your nation but the media will not spin it that way.

The National Atheist Party is a young organization that is trying to gain credibility, so why the fuck would you invite a severely disliked group that could then be associated with your party? In fact its not a silly idea its a downright idiotic idea, did you have your thinking caps on that day?

[m.condon]

The Westboro Baptist Church has said that they will be attending the event. This invitation is an invitation to pick on someone their own size, as opposed to cowardly and hatefully protesting funerals. We at the National Atheist Party are fighting hard to protect our secular rights and values, and we are a force to be reckon with.  If they are already going to be at the even the National Atheist Party wants them to know that they are more than welcome and will be met with smiles, reason and swag bags as opposed to the hateful ignorance that the Church seems to project on everyone they encounter.

[Ali]

The Westboro Baptist Church has said that they will be attending the event. This invitation is an invitation to pick on someone their own size, as opposed to cowardly and hatefully protesting funerals. We at the National Atheist Party are fighting hard to protect our secular rights and values, and we are a force to be reckon with.  If they are already going to be at the even the National Atheist Party wants them to know that they are more than welcome and will be met with smiles, reason and swag bags as opposed to the hateful ignorance that the Church seems to project on everyone they encounter.

Works for me.  If anyone is the US is stupid enough to think that atheists are, like, aligning themselves with the WBC (which yes, some people are that stupid, especially when it comes to confirming what they already want to believe - that atheists are The Evil) then they already had that opinion of atheists (and don't know anything about what an atheist actually is) and frankly, meh, fuck 'em.

[Sweetdeath]

What are you hoping to show by extending this invitation?

I'm wondering that too because I can't think of anything productive.

Why can't the whole point be to annoy them slightly? 

Maybe it's to lock them in a church and set them on fire?

[Stevil]

Maybe it's to lock them in a church and set them on fire?

Roasted Nuts, yummy!

[Firebird]

Ok, makes more sense if they're already coming anyway. I saw them once protesting outside Harvard Law School and there was a counter-protest going on next to them, peacefully. I was impressed with the restraint of the other protesters, especially since my first impression was to find a rock and throw it at WBC

[Tank]

The Westboro Baptist Church has said that they will be attending the event. This invitation is an invitation to pick on someone their own size, as opposed to cowardly and hatefully protesting funerals. We at the National Atheist Party are fighting hard to protect our secular rights and values, and we are a force to be reckon with.  If they are already going to be at the even the National Atheist Party wants them to know that they are more than welcome and will be met with smiles, reason and swag bags as opposed to the hateful ignorance that the Church seems to project on everyone they encounter.

Sort of turning the other cheek then?