Fighting Fire With Fabulous

The article, Fighting Fire With Fabulous, describes how Dave and Scott Dambacher are going to take on the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC). This church is led by Fred Phelps who leads the members of his church in protests against homosexual people, Jewish institutions, Catholicism, and other religions and beliefs. This church even promotes picketing at funerals of gay victims of murder or people who have died from AIDS. This church is headquartered in Topeka, Kansas, and the Dambacher brothers are headed to this town. The brothers are going to film a new rock musical show in Topeka to counter the WBC influence on people. This show is going to act as a revolution through art in order to change people's viewpoints. The brothers hope the WBC protest the show or maybe even change their mind on some of their hateful views. The show will include characters that are targeted by the WBC and be known as "The Freaka in Topeka" which has the tagline "fight fire with fabulous." The brothers also hope that the community gets involved with the show by giving their own personal input on online threads to act as a collective medium.

I believe this idea is a great way for people in the Topeka community to share their ideas and beliefs on the WBC. However, I do not believe this show will change the WBC's viewpoints on things. The members of this church come primarily from the extended family of Phelps, and they are brainwashed into these beliefs. It is disgusting that these people are allowed to run a church based off of hatred towards innocent people. Their actions against the gay community are cruel and utterly ridiculous. I believe these WBC members need to be punished for the pain that they have caused to many innocent people. Moreover, I appreciate that the Dambacher brothers are taking the first big step to counter the WBC by getting the entire community involved. The alliteration used in the tagline of the show is also very clever and powerful. I would be interested in watching an episode of this rock musical show to see how the WBC responds. I am positive that they will have many picketers at the filming of this show.