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June 10, 2014

D.C. High School Students Hold Counter-Protest Against Anti-Gay Westboro Baptist Church 
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In Washington, D.C. students from Woodrow Wilson High School gathered
for a counter-rally Monday against the extremist Westboro Baptist
Church, which came to protest the school's celebration of LGBT pride.
Last week, the school's principal, Pete Cahall, came out at a school
Pride Day assembly.

Pete Cahall: "I am a proud gay man who just happens to be the principal
of Wilson High School."

Cahall spoke out while standing alongside D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray. On
Monday, hundreds of students and community members gathered to show
their support for LGBT equality and to condemn the Westboro Baptist
Church members, whom they vastly outnumbered.

Aiden Parisi: "We kind of took it together to be proud of who we are,
and that obviously what we're doing is making an impact that this group
has to come and protest us...I hope people learn a lot from this,
because you can learn a lot from First Amendment, you can learn a lot
about standing up for your rights."

Woman: "When hateful people come to my town, I'm going to stand up and
be counted."

 

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