Can this whole thing get any weirder? June 1 column in the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/post/westboro-baptist-church-and-the-kkk--unclear-on-the-concept/2011/06/01/AGAH3jGH_blog.html

Posted at 07:00 PM ET, 06/01/2011

Westboro Baptist Church and the KKK — unclear on the concept

By Alexandra Petri

You can’t stop watching the video.
The Ku Klux Klan is protesting the Westboro Baptist Church, the infamous group whose memebers carry offensive signs and create distractions at military funerals. I guess there’s a first time for everything.
But when Ralph Waldo Emerson said that “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” I am positive that this was not what he meant.
The quotes were hilarious. Self-identified Imperial Wizard Dennis Labonte told CNN that he was not a “hate-monger.” Really? The KKK seems like an unusual choice of organization for non-hate-mongers. Maybe he was on the way to a peace gardening party and got confused. Maybe he thinks it’s a group for people who like to dress up as conehead ghosts. That happens to the best of us, although usually it just leads to awkwardness around Halloween. Maybe he thought Imperial Wizards combined all the best elements of Star Wars and the Harry Potter series. No? There must be some reason, because protesting against hatred seems wildly out of character. Maybe they’re going through some sort of midlife crisis...

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