Hilarious Protest Signs

On Friday the Westboro Baptist Church staged a protest outside Twitter headquarters in SF. Their disgusting signs were totally upstaged by a brilliant group who gathered carrying signs guaranteed to amuse and befuddle all passersby. Here are some of my favorites.

and of course we had to have a Rick Roll:

and a few more:

What a terrific answer to the intolerant group who started this. Make people laugh and forget about them. In the end the original group just gave up and left. Hooray for the good guys!

The original article by Harmon Leon (who shot most of these pics) is here.

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Comment by Mark Huckabee on February 1, 2010 at 2:08pm: @Aubree -- to quote Harmon Leon who wrote the original article "Apparently, God hates Twitter."

Why? I literally have no idea.

Comment by Kevin on February 1, 2010 at 2:00pm: I have a friend who was at this protest. She led the crowd in a rendition of The Beatles "All You Need Is Love".

Comment by Aubree on February 1, 2010 at 1:42pm: What were they protesting at Twitter? I don't get it....

Comment by sAm on February 1, 2010 at 9:49am: OMG, this is a great post. So funny, makes me believe in the good of people.

Comment by alice on February 1, 2010 at 9:49am: Hilarious! Thanks for the post, Mark!

Comment by Martin on February 1, 2010 at 6:41am: Wonderful! The Westboro church loves to be hated, because that fits with their apostolic image of themselves. Hopefully, laughter will send them scurrying for the shadows.