God Hates F*ggot Poets!

The Rev. Phelps and his entourage of rabid followers took a break from their hectic schedule of disrupting military funerals to protest at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda. The issue? The school's namesake is rumored to have been gay or bisexual. The school's teachers turned this into a teachable moment by helping the students mobilize a peaceful counter-protest. Watch the Washington Post video for signs of social progress--I can't imagine the privileged dunderheads at my Florida high school speaking so eloquently in support of gay friends.