Folks from the Westboro Baptist Church, my personal favorite group of crazies, came to New York to do a little demonstratin'.Rebekah Phelps-Davis, 48, said that her group had come to New York to take on the large Jewish population for its support of "the homosexual agenda." To that end, around noon on Sunday, she stood near the entrance to Central Park at 72nd Street, cordoned off by blue wooden police sawhorses. The group was out of sight of its intended target - a celebration inside the park marking the centennial of Tel Aviv - but its members did their best to provoke those who happened by. ("We do not intend to convert the devil," she explained.)
Although only seven of them actually were there, a dozen cops protected their right to freedom of speech and presumably the freedom to act like assholes.
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