The Westboro Baptist Church, for those of you who don't know, is an extremist group famous for things such as the "God Hates Fags" slogan, protesting soldier funerals, and apparently now making death chants at President Barack Obama. At this point it's hard to take these guys seriously for me really, because the only attention they get is either comical or just highlighting how extreme and out there they are. However, Kellan Baker in this article is my new hero. He put together the "Phelps-a-thon" (Phelps is the family name of those behind the WBC) which raised money as long as the WBC protesters were at the White House, netting $500 for Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence. FANTASTIC! And to top it all off, Fred Phelps is stilled banned from the UK. I don't often get chances to say this in life, but... neener neener neener!

So tonight is my last taste of sweet, sweet freedom... the Spring Quarter starts tomorrow. This entire week I've basically gotten to spend punishing my tailbone by sitting on my butt for extended periods of time, either in bed with a book, in my computer chair vegetating over old episodes of Buffy, Xena, and the X-Men cartoon from the 90s (PS: Did I mention I'm a crazed X-Men fanboy?), or other various prone, non-contributing-to-society positions. Tomorrow also means the resumption of my duties as Vice President of Rainbow Alliance. I'm actually kind of excited to get back to work. I get to reconnect with some fresh faces I'd only begun to meet, Spring quarter is our busiest quarter for events, and I get to take Intro to Sexuality Studies, the flagship class being tested to see if Wright State should offer a Sexuality/LGBT/Queer Studies major.

There are some drawbacks however. This year we seem to be facing more trouble than usual with our campus's Christian organizations. This is not to say that Christians are anti-gay, or that the Christian students in general are anti-gay... but there has been concerning activity with the Christian organizations on my campus lately. Last quarter, we got an e-mail from a former member of the main evangelical group on campus notifying us that members of the organization routinely pray for God to strike us down and destroy us, and the President of our Christian Student Union followed our President into our organization's office one morning and told her that God came to him and told him to save her, and to top all that off the Campus Bible Fellowship organized on Ash Wednesday to confront those on campus who weren't wearing ash and asked them why they had chosen not to accept Jesus Christ as their lord and savior.