“You see, he got the message,” she said. “In the day of judgment…that guy is not going to be able to say ‘I didn’t know.’”
A handful of Cambridge Police Department officers stood around the protest and urged passers-by to keep moving.
Although an announcement about the counter-protest was sent out over the e-mail list of Harvard’s Bisexual Gay Lesbian Transgender and Supporters Alliance, no undergraduates participated in the counter-protest.
Topeka-based minister Fred Phelps has been in the national spotlight for his group’s staunch opposition to homosexuality and frequent protests with strongly-worded signs. After commencement, the Westboro Baptist Church picketed the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, which was preparing to rule in a case concerning same-sex marriage.
—Staff writer J. Hale Russell can be reached at jrussell@fas.harvard.edu.
