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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AC37" data-source="post: 1386111" data-attributes="member: 133">Like many things, there is a cycle of self-fulfilling prophecy occurring with WBC.The best publicity the WBC gets are from the ones who scream the loudest how much they hate them.  IOW - who's really generating all the media attention for WBC - WBC by themselves, or the ones that claim to hate them so much?  No one man - or small group - can terrorize an entire nation unless we are all their accomplices.  Are we _really_ that threatened by the WBC's beliefs that we believe they require lots of national attention to deal with?  Do we believe they are that much of a threat to our country we must organize national efforts to stamp them out post-haste?  Heck, the entire church manages only an entire congregation of 71 members in a state capital with over 120,000 individuals.  There are far greater problems this country faces than 71 disgruntled, deluded individuals whose efforts to propagate their views and recruit new members consists solely of holding up signs with unpopular viewpoints - and who, for all of their efforts, still haven't managed to attract any significant numbers of new members.  The fact they aren't attracting anything in way of new membership probably speaks the loudest.Money?  How much $ is a small church of 71 members really going to be able to put together?  How much money does their small peanuts organization really require to maintain?Like many organizations, WBC is full of attention whores.  They don't do their protests in empty fields with no cameras or people, any more than an empty restaurant will draw a huge crowd.  Empty restaurants don't stay in business long - neither do small groups of protesters with unpopular viewpoints that get no air time for tons of exerted effort.  If WBC doesn't get the results they're after - no coverage or outrage, they have no motivation to continue exerting effort for no result for very long.  IOW:  if enough people shut off the spotlight, find something better to do with their time, let WBC continue jumping through the hoops they do to attract attention, only to waste their time getting none at all - they're going to stop, sooner or later.  Media thrives on ratings;  the WBC gives them that because people watch them.  No ratings, no media coverage of WBC.  The media moves on, the WBC moves on.  That simple.I don't know about you, but I have much more entertaining things to do with my limited free time like shooting, typing, reading, playing, or a few other non-PC activities I could name.  <img src="/images/smilies/smile.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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