Equality House to give Westboro a rainbow pride view

Equality House to give Westboro a rainbow pride view

The notoriously anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church members are about to get a new gay pride view.

Aaron Jackson, a founder of Planting Peace charity, has purchased the home and he and a team of volunteers are giving it a rainbow paint job to match the gay pride flag.

According to Huffington Post, they’ve named the project “Equality House” and it’s the first step in a campaign Planting Peace plans to wage against Westboro, who are known for picketing solders’ funerals and pride parades while holding up signs that read “GOD HATES FAGS.”

Jackson bought the house for $83,000 and has been living in Topeka for more than a month.

He told the Huffington Post that Westboro members own most of the homes in the neighborhood: “The reason I haven’t gotten into the gay rights activism is because, in a sense, it’s almost silly — it’s 2013, are we really still in this position? It just seems ludicrous. But it is a real issue and kids are killing themselves. I’ve wanted to do something, and I knew when I saw that house for sale that it all came together. Everyone who knows me knows that I’m a little crazy and there’s no red tape in my charity. When I want to do something, I do it.”

Jackson also installed a flagpole that displays a rainbow pride flag and the American flag upside-down. He told the Huffington Post the house will also be a headquarters for a team of volunteers working to promote LGBT equality.

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