Westboro Baptist Church selfie by Brad Paisley is now taking the internet by storm as he joins a long row of musicians who have been doing the selfie protests. The Westboro Baptist Church selfie by Brad Paisley shows the country singer in a demonstration along with other church protesters.
The Westboro Baptist Church selfie by Brad Paisley just goes to show that Paisley is ready to take a stand against his impressions on the infamous church.
According to the Huffington Post, the Westboro Baptist Church selfie by Brad Paisley was taken on Sunday, June 1. The Tennessean reports that in the Westboro Baptist Church selfie by Brad Paisley, the 41-year-old country music star is spotted together with a group of Westboro Baptist Church protestors striking on a roadside in Bonner Springs, Kansas.
The church protesters reportedly carried signs with the words "God hates drunks" and "Sin breeds violence." They had apparently come out to the streets in order to express their disagreement on a concert that Paisley will be performing on that same night in an amphitheatre near the demonstration.
Instead of putting Paisley in a negative light because of the demonstration, the Westboro Baptist Church selfie by Brad Paisley just proved that he is a sport and he isn't one to shy away from protesting groups. In the Westboro Baptist Church selfie, it seems that Paisley decided to grab the chance to take the selfie and pose with the protestors and their protest signs.
Westboro Baptist Selfie!! Or west-Burro(ass) selfie. Hopefully they can hear the show out here. We'll play loud. pic.twitter.com/OrMhJjD8NE
— Brad Paisley (@BradPaisley) June 2, 2014
According to TIME, the Westboro Baptist Church selfie photo has already had almost 238,000 likes on Facebook, and counting two days after it was taken. Many fans have also already posted messages of support for Paisley. Some even took to ridiculing the extremist group. Meanwhile, the church's reaction is as unsure as their thoughts on the Westboro Baptist Church selfie. They just weren't certain whether Paisley was mocking them.
@GossipCop @1033WAKG Was @BradPaisley REALLY mocking Westboro Baptist Church? It’s hard to say. You decide: https://t.co/rQDMVsY8kd #selfie — Westboro Baptist (@WBCSays) June 3, 2014
The Westboro Baptist Church has reportedly already protested other country stars, which include Blake Shelton and Taylor Swift. Last year, Vince Gill, also a country music artist, has come head to head with the Kansas-based group and couldn't stop himslef from confronting a group of Westboro protestors. The protesters reportedly objected to a concert he was about to play in Kansas City, Mo. during that time.
Gill was captured on video telling a Westboro supporter, "[Jesus said] a lot of stuff about forgiveness, about grace. You guys don't have any of that."
Westboro Baptist Church selfie by Brad Paisley was done to probably show the group that he is not affected in the least by their picketing. The group is described as a "homophobic and anti-Semitic hate group" by the Anti-Defamation League. According to the Huffington Post, the WBC have been doing protests around the country on a regular basis. Some of them even include funerals of soldiers, celebrities and shooting victims.
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