No, I'm not trying to silence the twisted minds of the Topeka, KA family cult who picket at innocent victims' funerals. The Supreme Court upheld their constitutional right to do so.
But there is no constitutional right that says their speech has to be turned into news and amplified for them. So I'm saying "Shhhh" to the news media.
Please ** JUST IGNORE ** this little band of anti-gay zealots, who now say they're going to picket the funerals of the seven Pennsylvania children that died in a fire. They'll be holding up their much-used, "God Hates Fags" and "America is Doomed," signs -- doomed because our country increasingly accepts gay people and grants them the same rights.
What does this have to do with these innocent children? Absolutely nothing. It's an opportunity to get national media attention, that's all.
So: don't give them the attention. It's no longer news, anyway, is it? So ignore them. It's as simple as that. Period. Case closed.
Except: our outrage-hungry TV watchers demand spectacle, and the Phelps gang is happy to provide spectacle.
I'm thinking of starting a boycott campaign -- get people to agree to stop watching/reading, for one week, whatever news source shows the Phelps or runs an article about them. That ought to do it.
Ralph
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