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Dunno about common - there's not very many of them after all - but they are active. Usually they show up in response to some event, but keep in mind, they're nuts, so who knows what set off the demonstration you saw.
I've had the experience of seeing them myself, picketing a state courthouse in response to a recent decision they didn't like.
From the pictures I've seen, and the one demonstration I saw, it seems that usually at least one of them will be carrying a sign "westboro baptist church". Maybe it was them, or maybe a copycat group? Who knows?
They're awful, but it has to be admitted that they have contributed to the swing in public opinion toward gay rights. Their picketing of military funerals made a lot of people decide that they were for whatever the westboro church was against!
I would guess it is a copycat group. I have a hard time seeing Westboro folks coming all the way out to Arizona to stand by the road. Come to think of it, it was a very nice day....
Tactically speaking, why hold signs up of any kind in rural places? The purpose of signs is to get people to see them. It's like why rural America will never be attacked by terrorists. Not enough people. No media.
Why would you automatically think it's left wingers & not that Westboro group or others copying them? I have to assume you've never heard of them if you automatically go to "No, it was a group of left wingers". I realize some people feel the need to interject partisan jabs into every single topic but sometimes it's best to just stay on topic.
Could have been some local loons. There are nut jobs in Arizona too. Hopefully they were just transient wackos and are on their way to some out of state nuthouse.
Anyway, giving them any attention just gives them more and more resolve. Ignoring them is the only way to go.
Tactically speaking, why hold signs up of any kind in rural places? The purpose of signs is to get people to see them. It's like why rural America will never be attacked by terrorists. Not enough people. No media.
They're nuts. You'd have to ask the demonstrators why doing what they're doing makes sense.
Their main purpose, after all, may be just to maintain their nonprofit status. From that point of view, it really doesn't matter where they wave their signs around. Or it may be that they were worried god was going to smite any minute, and they were holding signs to make sure that the smite avoided them.
Even in rural areas, a freeway ramp can see a lot of traffic, especially on a weekend.
Ah, actual peaceful protesters. Unlike the Ferguson protestors, Westburo's message is based on Biblical truths and selfless messages.
....and ostracizing their own flesh and blood for not joining in.
....and protesting at the funerals of those that had nothing to do with public policy or gay rights etc. at the time of their greatest grief.
It would be like if Jesus, instead of turning on the money changers at the temple....instead went to the family of a local fisherman who'd drowned that day and danced around mocking them they he was going to hell because of the moneylenders while they stood there crying.
Apparently some of the Phelps clan are members here.
I'm not in Westburo, but support their Biblical message God hates figs. Now if the church could just correct their spelling mistake.
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