so that s carried on to gay funerals westboro have boycotted, they ve boycotted elizabeth edwards s funeral, soldiers funeral, so we re keeping the same tradition. we re not considering it a protest, it s a counterprotest. it s not a political statement, it s not about politics or about dialogue, it s about protecting this family and letting them grieve and show the compassion that our entire community has for them. we just want it to be a peaceful town again. we want to restore what unity we had and it s been pretty overwhelming our response so far. i know you were expecting just a handful of people, how many people have expressed interest in taking part? well, initially i e-mailed about 90 people who i knew would be pretty interested in it. so far we have 300 who say they want to be angels. we can only have 30 just in terms of logistics and cautiousness but we ve had about 2500 to 3,000 people say that
surrounded them because strength is in their silence. so that s carried on to gay funerals westboro have boycotted, they ve boycotted elizabeth edwards s funeral, soldiers funeral, so we re keeping the same tradition. we re not considering it a protest, it s a counterprotest. it s not a political statement, it s not about politics or about dialogue, it s about protecting this family and letting them grieve and show the compassion that our entire community has for them. we just want it to be a peaceful town again. we want to restore what unity we had and it s been preoverwhelming our response so far. i know you were expecting just a handful of people, how many people have expressed interest in taking part? well, initially i e-mailed about 90 people who i knew would be pretty interested in it. so far we have 300 who say they want to be angels. we can only have 30 just in terms of logistics and cautiousness but we ve had about
heard you heard emotions from shock to outrage to someone proclaiming how angry they were. i mean, i was just crying and didn t really understand the whole thing myself. and sunday morning we woke up and to our horror we found westboro issued their press release, talking about how god was laughing from heaven and things like that. so of course i was angry and upset, and then i thought, okay, i m going to protect our town and we re going to protect our community. so we did everything possible in order to make that happen. and i think we re going to be able to successfully complete our mission in the next few days. you have something called angel action. what is that? well, it s based off of matthew shepherd s funeral who was killed in 1998. his best friend had a group of people with eight to ten-foot angel wings worn on their bodies. people were protesting his funeral so they surrounded them in a nonviolent protest and
shock to outrage to someone proclaiming how angry they were. i mean, i was just crying and didn t really understand the whole thing myself. and sunday morning we woke up and to our horror we found westboro issued their press release, talking about how god was laughing from heaven and things like that. so of course i was angry and upset, and then i thought, okay, i m going to protect our town and we re going to protect our community. so we did everything possible in order to make that happen. and i think we re going to be able to successfully complete our mission in the next few days. you have something called angel action. what is that? well, it s based off of matthew shepherd s funeral who was killed in 1998. his best friend had a group of people with eight to ten-foot angel wings worn on their bodies. people were protesting his funeral so they surrounded them in a nonviolent protest and surrounded them because strength is in their silence.
heard you heard emotions from shock to outrage to someone proclaiming how angry they were. i mean, i was just crying and didn t really understand the whole thing myself. and sunday morning we woke up and to our horror we found westboro issued their press release, talking about how god was laughing from heaven and things like that. so of course i was angry and upset, and then i thought, okay, i m going to protect our town and we re going to protect our community. so we did everything possible in order to make that happen. and i think we re going to be able to successfully complete our mission in the next few days. you have something called angel action. what is that? well, it s based off of matthew shepherd s funeral who was killed in 1998. his best friend had a group of people with eight to ten-foot angel wings worn on their bodies. people were protesting his funeral so they surrounded them in a nonviolent protest and surrounded them because strength is in their silence. so that