The Phelps clan protested at Walt Whitman High School -- because it's named Walt Whitman High School

[Are_grits_groceries]

The Phelps clan was in Bethesda today to protest Walt Whitman High School -- because it's named Walt Whitman High School. Not kidding. But, the students at Walt Whitman High were having none of it. And, when school let out, the kids lined up to form a counter-protest. There were seven Phelps compared to over 500 students. It actually sounds like the Phelps clan did a good job of uniting Whitman:

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But at Whitman, the protesters arrived to palpable excitement. Faculty had spun the event into an interdisciplinary lesson. English teachers spent the day on Whitman's verse. Social studies teachers led a unit on tolerance. Math teachers fanned through the crowd, attempting a head count.

It was the first taste of protest for many Whitman students, and perhaps the first time they had paid much mind to their namesake.
http://www.americablog.com/

Whitman would be proud. Good on them!

[TZ]

1. Whitman is one of the top HS

In one of the top public systems in the country. The phelps are really dumb fucks for protesting there. Too dumb to know how much those kids were laughing at the idiots-I bet the kids had awesome fun with it ...

[sarge43]

2. Slam dunking stupid adults. What HS kids wouldn't enjoy that.

Good on them.

[leftofcool]

3. I think we all know what horrible things ole Walt did

to the country........grassy leaves and all that. Phelps and his whole hoard of religious whores are idiots

[H2O Man]

4. Right. And he

thought differently. That's dangerous. God hates people who think differently.

[leftofcool]

5. Phelps doesn't know it yet but God hates him too

[H2O Man]

6. I tend to agree.

I don't think the Phelps-ites would do well if they appeared in this area. Divine intervention, you know.

[frogcycle]

7. on a lighter note:

the context-driven ad on the americablog site is for a "Phillips colon health" product, presumably due to the similarity to the word "phelps"

I'll never see an article about this gang of thugs again without laughing about that.

[tanyev]

8. How the hell do these Phelpses have so much time and money to do all this?

Who is bankrolling them?

[tekisui]

9. One day Phelp's will be on his death bed calling for his people to protest him.