Westboro Baptist Church, the fringe-of-the-fringe anti-gay group famous for protesting at military funerals and claiming that God is punishing the country for its tolerance of homosexuality, was spotted this morning protesting outside SidwellFriends, the school attended by Sasha and Malia Obama... They believe that the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, as well as the ensuing wars and even...
... the catchily named www.GodHatesFags.com (wow, isn’t that special )– and moreover, double shame on SidwellFriends for not making sure these crazies keep a safe distance from the children they are supposed to protect. Do these people even have a permit to protest? What if one of them pulls a gun? They plan to picket at SidwellFriends Lower School (similar to elementary...
... of 1:42.17. The squad of Liza Engstrom (Reno, Nev./Robert McQueen), Jenny Wilson (Bethesda, Md./SidwellFriends School), Meghan Cavanaugh (Anchorage, Alaska/East Anchorage) and Emily Wong (Nepean, Ontario/St. Joseph's) were trailing entering the final leg, but Wong picked up right where she left off after a tremendous Friday to swim a 22.29 final 50 free split and reel in the Cyclones...
... bested the old mark of 1:32.66 set by the Wildcats in the year 2000. Jenny Wilson (Bethesda, Md./SidwellFriends School) finished in a dead-heat for second place in the championship final of the 50 breast to earn 16.5 points for the Wildcats. Her time of 29.41 matched Kerry Sodonis from Michigan State. Also in the `A' final for NU were Kathleen Patterson (Naperville, Ill./Neuqua Valley)...
BETHESDA, Md. — Fresh from his weeklong trip through Asia, President Barack Obama is taking time to catch up on dad duty. The president and first lady Michelle Obama stopped by 8-year-old daughter Sasha's school Friday morning. White House officials said they were visiting SidwellFriends School in Bethesda, Md., for a school activity, but declined to elaborate. Although Obama has...
(By Ann Doss Helms, ahelms@charlotteobserver.com) Bruce Stewart has strong opinions about education reform. Among other things, he wants the federal government to create a U.S. Teacher Academy, as rigorous and prestigious as the military academy at West Point. You might think the veteran educator could do his best lobbying from home. Until he retired this year as head of the SidwellFriends...
... time, the president, and the first lady, made the trek out through morning rush hour traffic to SidwellFriends Lower School in Bethesda, where Sasha goes, for a non-official visit. A WH press aide said first couple were attending a school function, but would not elaborate. Pool was kept outside, and walked to nearby shops for coffee. Visit lasted about 45 minutes. For the record:...
Its parent-teacher conferences made the evening news. So did cases of swine flu. And SidwellFriends School has recently been the target of a few small protests that seem aimed at prominent parents, not students.
The alleged humans that make up Fred Phelps's little world of madness demonstrated outside of SidwellFriends School in Washington, the place where President Obama's daughters go to school. Westboro Baptist Church, founded by Fred Phelps and made up mostly of Phelps family members, has garnered national attention for carrying signs such as "Thank God for 9/11" and protesting...
While the Quakers at SidwellFriends had one response to Westboro Bapstist Church's two day protest, earlier this year these frat boys at University of Chicago had another; both were very appropriate and grounded in each group's philosophy.
Even for a group of people who specialize in being sick, this is pretty sick: Westboro Baptist Church, the fringe-of-the-fringe anti-gay group famous for protesting at military funerals and claiming that God is punishing the country for its tolerance of homosexuality, was spotted this morning protesting outside SidwellFriends, the school attended by Sasha and Malia [...]
Mercy, did you read some of the comments at the link? Why do people have such hatred for this woman and conservatives? I just lost a friend (albeit a crappy one) because I dared to criticize Code Pink harassing military children going to a Halloween party, when she thought the Westboro Church protesters outside Sidwellfriends were much worse. Hello? There were three Westboro idiots...
... words with an MSNBC anchor. "God is your enemy," read one sign at the event outside of SidwellFriends School, as captured in a photo by Megan Phelps-Roper, granddaughter of church founder Fred Phelps. The church is known for its signature protest sign that reads "God hates fags." MSNBC anchor David Shuster described Monday's Westboro church protest as "beyond...
... Sascha and Mahlia Obama's school in Washington, DC. The Obama girls, like Chelsea Clinton, attend SidwellFriends School, run by Quakers, who are, obviously, notoriously anti-Christian, wanting to destroy America as violently as possible. Ellis Turner, the associate head of Sidwell, told ThinkProgress that students and faculty members wearing rainbow colors staged a counter-protest....
(ChattahBox)—The odious Fred Phelps and his hate group fronting as a Baptist Church protested outside of SidwellFriends this morning, where President Obama’s daughters, Sasha and Malia attend school. Members of Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church held offensive anti-Obama and and anti-gay signs and they plan to take their homophobic hate to the school children of [...]
