Protesters Unite Against Westboro Baptist and Hate
Counter-protesters, including a Forks Township woman, showed up at Lehigh Valley churches Sunday where the controversial Westboro Baptist Church said it would picket.
Westboro Baptist Church's threat to protest at four Lehigh Valley churches on Sunday was, in the end, an idle one. The controversial church known for its extreme views on homosexuality and protests at military funerals was a no-show. But the Kansas-based church rallied a diverse crowd that included a Forks Township woman, a Sunday school teacher, a cigar aficionado club and motorcyclists in chaps, to get up early on a frigid Sunday morning to publicly and peacefully take a stand against Westboro's message of hate and intolerance. Westboro's potential presence here was enough to get Ryan Bitler, 22, of Bethlehem, out of bed and attend his first protest. Bitler is a Pennsylvania National Guardsman who served a year in Afghanistan as a …
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