The Kansas-based hate group the Westboro Baptist Church, known for disrupting soldier鈥檚 funerals with chants and signs displaying gay slurs, is coming to the supposed heart of Gomorrah 8-9 AM November 3, to picket outside The Juilliard School in New York City.
The cause of the protest appears to be nothing more than the group鈥檚 anger at 鈥渢he vanity called 'The Arts鈥�,鈥� according to a statement posted on the group's webpage.
Juilliard students told 半岛体育.com that they are planning a counter-demonstration called
Using Bible verses to attack the supposed vanity of the school, which is ranked as one of the top music academies in the world, the Westboro group decries 鈥漈oo many words to cover the awful sin of this 鈥榠nstitution of higher learning.鈥� Sum it up like this: You have made your children to be good for absolutely nothing except full, final and awful destruction!鈥�
The site goes on to explain, 鈥淚f you had taught those children to invest 5% of the energy they use for the vanity called 鈥楾he Arts鈥�, America would not be leading the world in racing to destruction. Clarifying, God will not ever have idolatry, fornication, adultery, divorce and remarriage (which Christ said is adultery, at Luke 16:18, and other places) sodomy, same-sex marriage, murder, lying, stealing and all the rest of your proud sin, including your awful pride.鈥�
The Juilliard School is part of the Lincoln Center arts complex on Broadway at 66th Street in Manhattan.