The attention whores from Westboro Baptist Church finally stopped by Moore yesterday to protest the hysterical Moore Liquor marquee that celebrated founder Fred Phelps' death.
The protest went about as well as you could imagine.
Well, it almost did. Although the Westboro idiots didn't get punched or struck by a big gay rainbow bolt of lightning, the church's protest was cut short thanks to a counter-protest by a mob of angry Moore residents, tornado victims and the cast from Sons of Anarchy.
It was a pretty cool scene, and the classic battle of bad first amendment rights versus good first amendment rights. You had the church protesters silently holding up their "HEY LOOK AT US" (a.k.a. God Hates Fags) signs and banners, while across the street, divided by a loosely organized wall of police officers and a parade of obnoxious motorcycles and loud diesel trucks, there were counter-protesters screaming, hissing, and tossing inappropriate sign language Westboro's way. Eventually, some brave counter-protesters who look like they've probably been in a bar fight or two tried to cross the road to face the Westboro idiots. Since the Moore police didn't seem all that interested in stopping them, the Westboro folks scattered into their vans and fled the scene like they got diarrhea from Pickle's.
As I said, it went about as well as you could imagine.