Members of the Westboro Baptist Church, a group known for the vitriol they direct at any group they deem immoral in some way, showed up at Vince Gill's concert in Kansas City on Sunday, causing the country singer to confront them, according to CNN.
The Westboro group was there to protest Gill for his divorce in 1998 and subsequent remarriage in 200 to singer Amy Grant.
"Vince Gill broke marriage covenant & took another man's wife," the church said in a tweet where they also announced they would be picketing the concert that was being held at the Kauffman Center. "Hey, Vince Gill -@VGcom: God hates adultery and violence to marriage covenant. By whorish woman, destruction."
After they showed up, Gill walked over to their picket line. A protestor asked him why he was there.
"I just came to see what hatred really looked like," Gill said in response. He then began to debate scripture and divorce with the protestors, which was caught on video.
"Don't you know that divorce plus remarriage equals adultery?" one protestor said. "Jesus Christ said that."
Gill responded, turning more confrontational.
"You know what else he said?" Gill replied. "He said a lot of stuff, about forgiveness, about grace - you guys don't have any of that.
"I've seen you on TV, man," Gill said to a protestor holding a sign that read "God is America's Terror." "You're a big dipsh*t. You know that don't you?"
The confrontation seemed to end well enough and Gill's representative told CNN that the singer has no additional comments on the matter.
Westboro Baptist Church has protested everything from Taylor Swift to the funerals of soldiers. It's led by Fred Phelps who isn't affiliated with any Baptist denomination. Many of the members consist of Phelps family.
According to their Twitter account, Westboro seems to have moved on to Katy Perry and her new song "Roar."
Video of the confrontation.
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