Total, Massive Genius, Congregation Beth Simchat Torah

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This is the kind of stuff that makes it worthwhile to get up every day. Enjoy.

Background: The rabidly wingnutty Westboro Baptist Church loves the publicity their hate-filled picketing brings. We all know their loathesomeness so I'm not linking. They are currently on a rageful, heretical protest jaunt in New York City.

Congregation Beth Simchat Torah has found the perfect antidote: don't engage because that just makes the Westboro protesters feel justified. Instead ...

A Manhattan synagogue turned a visit from hate-spewing demonstrators into a lucrative fund-raiser Sunday.

Leaders of Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, a West Village synagogue that caters to gays and lesbians, didn't want to ignore a planned visit by members of the rabidly anti-gay and anti-Semitic Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church.

Instead, they asked supporters to pledge a dollar or more for every minute that six protesters stood near their synagogue hurling epithets and holding signs that read "God Hates Fags" and "Jews Stole the Land."

The final haul after 50 minutes: $10,000.

Source is here.