Westboro Fail Is Really A Win

The Westboro picketers had chosen a Missouri soldier's funeral to use for publicity, when people came together to make sure they weren't successful.

A planned protest by the Westboro Baptist Church was overshadowed Saturday when thousands of supporters gathered at the funeral of a fallen soldier to block the radical church's effort.

Thousands of people in red shirts formed a "human wall" around the Columbia, Mo. church where 21-year-old Army Specialist Sterling Wyatt's funeral was held. Wyatt was killed in Afghanistan earlier this month.

Westboro Baptist Church, an independent Kansas-based church known for its extreme ideology and widely condemned demonstrations, had indicated plans to picket the funeral. When Tori Smith, an acquaintance of Wyatt's, got wind of the protest plans, she decided to organize a small group of supporters to counteract the church's negative actions. Word of Smith's plans spread quickly, drawing thousands to the church on Saturday morning.

See, that's how you do it.  Show respect for the fallen, for the families you live with grew up with, and enforce decency in a way that promotes goodness.  Westboro members have no class, no integrity and no clue.  However, the people who stood up to them were able to demonstrate grace, kindness and strength.  

Well done, guys.