Pennsylvanians suggest anti-queer Phelps should go home
Fred Phelps brought his "God Hates Fags" crew to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, this week to protest the showing of "Jim in Bold," a documentary about a gay Pennsylvania teen's suicide. The locals were unimpressed. "We say to Fred Phelps as Christians, 'Are there no hungry children in Kansas that need to be fed?'" asked local NAACP President Clare Jones. The crowd's murmurs grew as she asked whether Kansas had no homeless, s, widows or orphans who need to hear the word of God. "If these things are not done, how do you have time to spend on bigotry in Pennsylvania?" Seventeen-year-old Casey Bossler, who came to see the film with her queer best friend, was more succinct: "Go back to where you came from!" Patriot-News
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