A group of assholes have announced that they'll be picketing the Comic-Con on Thursday for 45 minutes. Yeah, I know I don't usually use language like that here but in this case, nothing less is appropriate. This is the band of Neanderthals who, in the name of The Lord, picket any public figure who isn't openly hostile to gays, including protesting at funerals. If you're not deeply religious, you ought to be horrified by these people because they spread hate and anger. If you are deeply religious, you oughta be horrified for that reason and because they make people who follow the Gospel look like…well, like assholes.
They say they'll first go over to the Manchester Hyatt and picket because the "adulterous" Al Gore is speaking there. Wasn't there something in Genesis wherein Moses laid the foundation for what we now know as "innocent until proven guilty?" Apparently, that doesn't apply when you just plain don't like the guy. This picketing is also neatly misdirected since if they get any sort of turnout at all, they'll undoubtedly cause more problems for the Hyatt than they will for Al Gore. The owner of the Hyatt, of course, was a leading backer of California's Proposition 8 so in keeping with their tradition of embarrassing those who accept Jesus as their personal saviour, they'll be picketing their own kind.
Then they're going to scurry over to the convention center and picket all of us because, as I understand, we worship comic book heroes instead of Jesus Christ…or something like that. These people have a low definition of "worship." They also will probably be small in number, which is one of the reasons we shouldn't be giving them even this much attention. All they really want are the kind of headlines you get from going where you're not wanted and causing trouble. I think we should do the worst thing possible and just ignore them. And if you're around when they're around and some TV crew grabs you and asks you to comment, just say, "It's great to have these protesters here because they make even the weirdest Comic-Con attendees look sane by comparison."