Our friends in Foggy Bottom aren’t too happy about the Westboro Baptist Church’s protest next month. While one student group has already organized a counter-protest, GW freshman Daniel Wein and junior Daniel Reade decided to act differently.

Wein and Reade created Transcend Hate, a group that aims to raise money for those targeted by the WBC, according to the GW Hatchet.

“We didn’t like the idea of responding to noise with more noise, responding to yelling with yelling,” Wein told the Hatchet. “We didn’t really feel like that was a positive way to confront them even if you have silly signs.”

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To Georgetown students, George Washington University is a neighboring university and an opponent on the winter battlefield.

To the members of the Westboro Baptist Church—a Kansas-based hate mongering extremist group run by Fred Phelps—however, GW brings to mind the phrase “God-hating heathens.”

According to the group’s website, the WBC will be in Foggy Bottom on the morning of November 11th—Veteran’s Day—to “remind this nation that this next generation of young people have been raised for the devil himself.” Afterward, the group plans to protest at Arlington National Cemetery.

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The conservative writers over at The GW Patriot aren’t so bad–more David Brooks than Michael Savage, they know waterboarding’s torture. Plus, when one of them eats a vegan cinnamon bun and discovers to his horror that he likes it, the resulting cascade of self-doubt and overcompensation is far more exciting than any Brooks column.

Writer WHP, the offending bun-lover, opens by explaining which herbivores are in trouble with him, and which are not:

The first and most common, Vegetarianism, is just a simple refusal to consume animal flesh; I find this to be most acceptable considering that people do it for a whole variety of reasons, not just because they are against consuming animal flesh on “ethical” ground. The second, and oddest, is Veganism.

I’ve heard the same thing–”Vegetarians are cool with me, but vegans, get out of here!”–from at least three different people at Georgetown, and the implication that anyone is waiting for their approval about someone else’s diet is baffling.

A crisis of faith, after the jump

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