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Zombies show up to counter Westboro Baptist Church protestors
By
Eric Pfeiffer, Yahoo! News 
Hundreds of protestors dressed as zombies turned out to support the troops (KIRO-TV.com)After reading this story, you may begin to see zombies in a whole new light. While they get a lot of criticism over their love of human flesh, it turns out that some zombies also go out of their way to support the troops. The Westboro Baptist Church had recently announced that it would be
holding one of its protests outside the Joint Base Lewis-McChord in DuPont, Washington. But last Friday, the controversial group was met with a far larger group of counter-protestors … dressed as zombies.
The controversial, Kansas-based church did not explain exactly why it was protesting in DuPont, but they have held a number of similar protests outside of military funerals in objection to gay rights.
That's when Melissa Neace and three of her friends organized the
Facebook event "Zombie'ing Westboro Baptist Church AWAY from Fort Lewis!"
"I have decided that the most violent free way to protest back is simple... a zombie apocalypse. So I ask EVERYONE who is able to attend that day, please come dressed in your finest zombie outfit," Neace wrote on the page.
The event page received such a positive response that
the zombies outnumbered the protestors by a reported level of 300 to 8, the News Tribune reported.
"We wanted to turn something negative around, into something people could laugh at and poke fun at," Neace told the paper. "It was the easiest way to divert attention from something so hateful."
"I think that their message is very hateful, and Jesus was not a hateful person. He loved everybody," counter-protestor Ashley Winslow told
KIRO-TV.
You can watch video of the protest and counter protest from KIRO,
here.
Using zombie makeup to protest anti-military demonstrators (KIRO-TV.com)
