Lamb Of God and friends drown out Westboro Baptist morons with an army of kazoos
The only appropriate response to the Westboro Baptist Church, the Christian sect infamous for its neon-signed hate protests, is to ridicule them. Their gatherings are hollering celebrations of homophobia, transphobia, racism, and every other conceivable form of bigoted thought, displayed on cardboard signs carried by adults and children sent to picket for no reason other than to promote prejudice and enrage passersby. They feed off confrontation, making conversation or arguments a waste of time. The only way to counter their efforts is to drown them out with an equal amount of noise.
Understanding this, Lamb Of God singer Randy Blythe took to Instagram in order to plan a “counter-party” that would frustrate the Church’s protest of Danica Roem’s election in Richmond, Virginia last Monday.
“What these people want is something that looks like this,” he says in the clip before rolling footage of a shouting match between Westboro members and a man understandably disgusted by them. “But what we’re going to give them … is gonna look like this,” Blythe says, cutting to him in a cowboy hat, purple wig, and sunglasses, buzzing enthusiastically, annoyingly, through a kazoo. The post told those interested the time and place to assemble and promised a “$200 cash prize for best costume” along with “200 kazoos to give out & various other melodic party-enhancing devices.”
As a collection of Twitter videos shows, Blythe’s plan worked. There are drums and noisemakers, there is dancing, and, last but not least, there are kazoos.