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Article: LEARNING TOLERANCE FROM HATRED.(Capital Region)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- November 12, 2009
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ALBANY -- Fred Phelps gave a gift to Albany High School.
In April, members of the hatemongering Kansas preacher's Westboro Baptist Church stood outside the school. Five held "God hates fags" signs. They stomped on an American flag. They chanted about dead babies and how America's lapsed morality was causing the deaths of its soldiers. They called President Barack Obama the devil as hundreds of students from high schools and colleges around the region showed up to counter-protest.
Eight months later, Phelps' message still has the school talking about responding when someone says the ugliest thing possible. There was a two-day assembly just this week, with ...