God loves poetry, not hate-mongering

GodHatesFags.com. is the website of The Westboro Baptist Church located in Topeka, Kan. The church, best know for protesting funerals of  gay people who died of AIDS or were victims of hate crimes, puts out press releases filled with phrases like "Military funerals have become pagan orgies of idolatrous blasphemy," and "God hates fag-infested; fag-enabling Lincoln, NE." So when Kevin Cobb and Andres Almeida got hold of the press releases, they used them to protest instead of persecute:

Cobb and Almeida, a couple from south Florida, recently launched a blog called GodLovesPoetry.com. In each blog post, they take a printout of a Westboro Baptist Church press release and begin redacting it with a black marker. They keep redacting and redacting until all that's left are a few words that create a poem that turns the original rhetoric of the press release on its head. They then create an artistic representation of the poem and redacted text, which they upload to their blog.

You can read the full story at NPR, but here's an example of their work from GodLovesPoetry.com:

Take, for example, two Westboro press releases both titled "GOD HATES AMERICA & IS KILLING OUR TROOPS IN HIS WRATH." They have inspired two poems:

OUR TROOPS

Have become

The watchmen

And protect America.

THANK GOD

And:

GOD

gave life

to

the

homosexual