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35 Times The Westboro Baptist Church Lost Badly

They will always lose.

1. The time when their tires got slashed and no one in an Oklahoma town would help fix them:

2. The time when that happened again:

3. All of the times people joined the protest and changed its message:

4. Every time the "Patriot Guard," a group of ex-soldiers and bikers, showed up to protect the families of fallen veterans:

5. The time when this kid ran into them and staged his own peaceful counter-protest:

6. All of the times people came together to make "human walls." Like this one in Tennessee:

7. This one in Aurora, Colorado, after the movie theater shooting:

8. And this one at Texas A&M:

9. The time this artist demonstrated his own right of freedom of speech in front of their headquarters by painting this huge mural:

10. All of the times people used the protests to raise money for charity:

11. Especially when Lisa Lampanelli donated $44K — $1000 for every Westboro Baptist Church member picketing her show — to The Gay Men's Heath Crisis in the WBC's name.

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Not only that but $6K extra will be added to round up to a total of $50K donated in the WBC's name. Nice to see that folks are figuring out ways to turn their hate around on them.

12. The time Russell Brand totally schooled them on his show:

13. All of the times when their website has been hacked and their phone numbers have been released:

14. The time when someone spray-painted their sign:

15. The time when Westboro tried to protest Comic-Con and they were basically humiliated by nerds who were 10,000x times smarter than them:

16. All of the times people made their own awesome signs

17. Especially this sign:

18. This sign:

19. This sign:

20. This sign:

21. This sign:

22. This sign:

23. This sign:

24. Definitely this sign:

25. And this one worked just fine too:

26. The time the Foo Fighters showed up to play them away:

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27. The day we discovered that even other hate groups can't stand them:

And especially all of the times individual communities came together to defeat them:

28. "Westboro Baptist church tried to protest a friend's funeral. This was his 'shield' for 5 miles long."

29. "The amazing crowd that showed up in Columbia, Missouri, this morning to silently and peacefully keep Westboro Baptist Church from protesting the military funeral for Specialist Sterling William Wyatt and from harassing his mourning family. RIP."

30. "Westboro Baptist Church protested a soldier's funeral in my town today. The community's response was thousands of people to block them and protect the family. It was hard to know WBC was there."

31. "Westboro Baptist Church visited my school, this is my friend Taco killing them with kindness."

32. "The Westboro Baptist Church came to my school a few months ago. This is what they had waiting for them."

33. "Westboro Baptist Church showed up to protest Bob Bethell's funeral in my hometown. This was the town's response."

34. "Westboro Baptist Church protested in Syracuse last week. I'm so proud of my city!"

35. In conclusion,