Update:
After Facebook God managed to raise more than $80,000 through its online fundraising campaign, it has finally installed a “God Loves Gay” billboard right next to Westboro Baptist Church. This particular billboard will stay up through March next year and the remaning money would be used to put up similar ads on buses. That part, Facebook God, also plans on making donations to The Trevor Project and the National Alliance to End Homelessness.
“For far too long, nasty humans have made God sound like a bigoted jerk… When really, nothing could be further from the truth. I’m super loving!” said Facebook God.
As expected Westboro Baptist Church has responded to the billboard on Twitter, encouraging people to vandalize the ad via the hashtag #TagEm, which seems to have been suspended.
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A campaign to install billboards that say ‘God Loves Gays,’ mocking the homophobic notions of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Ks., has raised more than 100 percent of its funding. Creators of the famous God Facebook page decided to launch the campaign in an attempt to advertise its message of love and inclusiveness in a state where the notorious anti-gay church has already popularized the phrase ‘God Hates Fags.’
The crowd funding campaign that took off last month has managed to raise more than the targeted $50,000, which the group plans to use in installing billboards across Kansas. With all the support that it has received, the group has already secured 12 months of billboard advertising around Westboro Baptist Church, which means the current ad will not be brought down before March 2015.
According to the God Loves Gays website, “When people see villains such as Westboro existing in the world, and no one doing anything about it, it disheartens them greatly. They lose faith in humanity and in the world. This has all kinds of negative consequences across all life. The message we are sending transcends this particular issue. Some people will argue that it is better to ignore the bigots, that all that Westboro wants is more attention. That it’s better for good people to do nothing, to ignore the evil and just wait for it to go away. While I respect this opinion, I contend that evil is only allowed to exist because good people do nothing. It’s time to send a message to these bigots. You want to come to other people’s funerals to promote hate? We’ll come to where you live to promote love!”
The group is now asking its supporters to nominate other locations where it can install the next set of billboards.
Photo Credits: This is Your Conscience
