Shirley Phelps-Roper Loves the New 'Sodomite Rainbow House' Across the Street from Westboro Baptist: VIDEO

Yesterday I posted about the new 'Equality House' painted up right across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas.

Shirley Phelps-Roper loves it:

“I love it,” she said. “What he does is he keeps the eyes of the whole earth on this message. Now everyday all people are thinking about is God will not have same sex marriage.”

The church even put out a statement.

"We thank God for the Sodomite Rainbow House. It is right across the street from the ONLY church that loves people enough to tell them the Bible truth about the filthy, soul-damning, nation-destroying sin of sodomy...The Sodomite Rainbow house helps shing a bright spotlight on this!"

Watch CNN's Jeanne Moos interview the house's new owner, AFTER THE JUMP...

Vassar College Stages Massive Counterprotest of Westboro Baptist Church After Raising $100K for Trevor Project: VIDEO

Yesterday, we applauded Vassar College for raising a whopping $100,000+ for The Trevor Project as a fundraising counterprotest against the Westboro Baptist Church, which picketed there yesterday. As you can see, Shirley Phelps-Roper was in fine form.

Oh, and there was a MASSIVE physical counterprotest too (below).

And Vassar also had its own religious voice ringing out inside its gates in the form of pro-LGBT and marriage equality Pastor Joseph Tolton.

Check out Tolton's fiery sermonizing and scenes from the Vassar counter-protest,
AFTER THE JUMP...

Vassar College Raises More Than $100,000 for the Trevor Project in Response to Westboro Baptist Church Protest

Vassar College has raised more than $100,000 in response to a planned protest today by the Westboro Baptist Church.

When the WBC announced its picket, Josh de Leeuw '08 organized a fundraiser with the goal of raising $4,500.

The Westboro Baptist Church has announced that they will picket Vassar College on Feb 28th. In response, we are raising money for the Trevor Project, "the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth." Our goal is to raise $4,500, or $100 per minute that the WBC is planning to protest for.

The response, as you can see, was more than enthusiastic, attracting thousands of donors.

As a proud '89 Vassar alum, I salute them (as do fellow VC alums Andrew Belonsky and Naveen Kumar, who write for this site).

Reporter Destroys the Westboro Baptist Church in Malibu: VIDEO

Shortly after their massively unsuccessful picket of Santa Monica High School, the Westboro Baptist Church headed up to Malibu and unfortunately ran into Brick Stone, who gave them a thorough trolling.

"Have you ever wondered how good gay sex must be if they're willing to go to hell for it?"

"Can a person go to heaven if he has homosexual urges but refuses to act on them, and he's so upset about the openly gay people that he makes his whole family have signs that say 'God hates fags'?

"Would you glass bottom boat Pat Robertson?"

"Didn't I jerk you off in a Kmart bathroom once?"

"Why did the Newtown kids go to hell but not aborted fetuses?"

"Didn't the hot members of your church leave because their brothers were kind of screwing with them?"

Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

Santa Monica High School Outprotests Westboro Baptist Church: VIDEO

Now that's school spirit.

Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

The L.A. Times adds: "In response to the planned protest, the school district’s Board of Education adopted an open letter to the community last week, reaffirming the school board’s 'unwavering commitment to teach tolerance, acceptance and compassion for others.'"

$30,000+ More For The Trevor Project From Vassar Students

In addition to the more than $40,000 Vassar's LGBT-friendly community has raised for the Trevor Project after the hideously hateful Westboro Baptist Church's announced it would picket the "Ivy League whorehouse," neither of which Vassar is, the school's campus has helped raise another $30,000 for the project, an organization that works to stop suicide and contributing factors scuh as anti-gay bullying and rejection.

Combined, students at and alumni from Vassar, which by complete coincidence happens to be where Andy, theater critic Naveen Kumar and I all attended, have helped raised $76,957 for The Trevor Project, according to the Poughkeepsie Journal.

So, thanks Westboro! Your hate is quite an inspiration for love.