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"Love Conquers All": Vassar Westboro Protest In Photos

Francesca Bessey |
February 28, 2013 | 9:47 p.m. PST

Executive Producer

The latest protest by the infamous Westboro Baptist Church may not have turned out quite like the extremist group planned.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For weeks, the Kansas-based church had been publicizing its plans to picket Vassar College on February 28th, giving students, faculty and alumni from the so-called "Ivy League Whorehouse" plenty of time to prepare for the demonstrators' arrival.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Thursday morning, Vassar staged a counter-rally, dwarfing the Westboro picketers and drawing attention from national media outlets such as the Huffington Post.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vassar alumnus Josh de Leeuw also used the counter-protest as an opportunity to start a fundraiser on Crowdrise.com, which successfully raised over $100,000 for the Trevor Project, "the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joke's on you, Westboro.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photos by Shannon Smith.

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