have a secret in tonight's edition of everything you know is wrong we'll ask a former member of the westboro baptist church about its infamous leader and about life in america's most infamous church. the best the rest of the news sparks flew at the conservative political action conference as an annual convention on friday and watch washington d.c. or nearby a panel discussion on how republicans can overcome their issues of the race and tolerance quickly spun out of control when a member of the audience terry seem to suggest that slavery had been a good thing and that young southern white males are being disenfranchised in america the host of the discussion kay carl smith from the group frederick douglass republicans was talking about douglass forgiving his former slave master when terry made his mind blowing claims take a look. i think you're. right. if you give you. are. going to. join me now to talk more about these controversial comments another man who was in the audience on friday. hollander of the white students union and university and member of the maryland league of the south matthe

thinned hess lined. , the westboro baptist church.he church is known for picketing soldiers' funerals and its extreme, almost nonsensical anti-gay stance. in her book "banished," lauren drain recounts the years she spent in the church before being cast out and disowned by her family. >> when i was first kicked out, i wasn't fully epared for that kind of ostracism. i wasn't fully prepared for losing my family, my mother, my father, my little siblings. i was 21 years old. i hadn't really seen the world. everyone else was labeled as evil to me. i had a very judgmental personality and mindset. i was fully brainwashed. >> brain became involved in the westboro baptist church when her father decide join the congregation led by fred phelps. he had planned to make a documentary mocking the church but instead found its doctrine convincing and moved his entire family to the church compound. >> at about age 14 my father started making some huge changes. he pulled me out of high school, he took me away from my friends, and he told me that he was g

the westboro baptist church is the perfect child of being anti-gay.place to start changing that message was with the westboro baptist church. >> any bananas or tomatoes thrown at you from the westboro baptist church? >> no. they sent out vial tweets but other than that, pretty calm. >> what's the response been from the broad community. of course, when you do something like this, media is friendly to you or on your side, so to speak because there's such a huge divorce on both sides there. >> absolutely. the world community has come together and backed us up. it's been truly amazing. the local community on the national level and global community has all just center, mails of encouragement. it's been truly amazing. >> great. >> we feel honored. >> have you ever done anything like this before? not just buy a house but taking public stands in defense of ideas that help vulnerable people? >> my charity does many things. we have dewarming programs around the world. we have orphanages around the world. this is our first time, yes, taking a stance like this, s

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so, have you heard from the folks at the westboro church about your house?ey sent out some pretty vile messages via twitter and through some, you know, released some statements to the press. but shirley felts, one of the main spoexpeople, she came and she was over at the house yesterday. she didn't come into the house, but she was in our front yard, taking pictures, and she did say that she loved our colors, so we're very happy to hear that she's pleased with our color patterns. >> so what will the house be used for? >> well, we plan on creating anti-bullying programs that we would like to spread throughout the, you know, throughout our school systems across the country. and we're going to place volunteers in this home to help promote those programs. the home will just basically be the artistic value of this home. the home will just literally be where volunteers will stay to work on furthering equality initiatives across the country. >> aaron jackson, thanks so much for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> we'll be right

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a former member is giving us an eye-opening look inside the westboro baptist. a memoir called "banish." good morning. >> good morning. thanks for having me. >> you were 14 when your family joined the church. did you have any idea how controversial the church was? >> no. at that time i was really seeking my father's approval. he kind of cut me off from my friends, my family. he took me out of school. he was really kind of controlling me at the time and telling me he wanted to raise me christian now, he wanted to raise me as a good daughter and when he brought up the westboro baptist, you know, at that time i finally was making friends with the girls in the church and such, so i think i wasn't realliy aware of thurt and harm that was being caused by the protests. >> you went out on some of those protests. >> in yes. >> how did they feel? >> they taught us that the more we're hated and the more people fought against or message the more right we were. it was kind of a justified hating. it was a christian hating and. >> it was a good thing. >> it was a good thing. t

. >>> talk about stirring up a hornet's nest, the notorious hate group calling itself the westboro baptistrch has a new colorful neighbor across the street from its headquarters. >> painted in the colors, a nonprofit group bought that property deliberately to counter westboro's hate message with its message that promotes acceptance called equality house where volunteers work on an anti-bullying initiative will stay. >> my favorite story. >> that is a good one. look at that house. pretty cool. >>> love it. >>> this may be a long shot but a kid in california has asked kate upton to the prom. we're sure kate was given lots of advice since the release of her latest "sports illustrated" cover. >> jake davidson mentions he has a curfew, the fact he can't dance and he's 5'9" on a good day but he does have some selling points, as well. >> now, kate, don't get me wrong, we have our commonalities. you like sports, i like sports, you like fine dining, i like fine dining. you're on the cover of "sports illustrated," i read "sports illustrated." >> at least they have a lot of things in common and he al

westboro is infamous for strident anti-gay message. home helped shine a spotlight on what it calls a very sin the bible condemns and therefore is welcome. the house was bought by a gay rights activist aaron jackson and he spoke a short time ago with cnn. >> it wasn't done necessarily on purpose. i was checking out the church through google earth and walking down the street and i saw that there was a for sale sign in front of the home of the westboro baptist church and it hit me. i'm going to buy that house and i'm going to paint it the pride flag. >> jackson says the house wl serve as a temporary residence for volunteers who work on equality initiatives. that's it for me. i'm fredricka whitfield. see you tomorrow. don lemon takes it from here. >>> hello, everyone. don lemon here. i want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. at any moment now u.s. president barack obama will hold a news conference with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu it will happen in jerusalem. the president is on his first tr

the fight against bigotry to the front door of one of america's most homophobic organizations the westboro baptist church after looking up the church's topeka kansas headquarters he realized that the house across the street was for sale it was an opportunity too good to be true. jackson and his organization purchased the house now called the equality house and decorated it with the colors of the gate wide play of the westboro baptist church has released a profanity filled statement about their new neighbors jackson says the rest of the topeka community has responded positively to the equality is good work here is more proof that nothing fights bad speech better than good speech the bad james i was the head of the texas based great fort bend county tea party. government or democracy for that matter where in a recent report in texas tribune i have one high ranking member of the american fascist party to at least two thousand and three although i've says his time with the mussolini loving a.f.p. was just a joke his posts on the message board seem pretty serious texas tribune is uncovered this

. >>> next, when you hear that web members of the westboro church is going to show up at a church, they not welcome. the group is united in the belief that god, god, hates gays. and they go around to events like military funerals attempting to spread their message. anyway, when the house across the street from the church, their church in topeka, kansas, went up for sale last year, one person saw an opportunity and bought the place. take a look at the new paint job. there you have it. the individual who bought the home across the westboro baptist church is home of the group called planting peace. newest headquarters is a statement, isn't it, of gay pride. they've got to look at that across the street now. >>> up next, how big a problem is racism in the tea party? we talk to filmmaker behind a new documentary called "black tea" about why some african-americans joined the tea party. this is going to be a hot debate coming up here. >>> welcome back. one of the more unsettling takeaways from this week's or last week's cpac conference from a video from a breakout session called trump the race

. >>> members of the anti-gay westboro church in topeka, kansas woke up to a rainbow surprise tuesdayk. a progressive nonprofit group that owns this house right beside the church decided to paint it the colors of the rainbow flag. that is a symbol of gay and lesbian pride. the group eventually hopes to turn the home into a drop-in center that will support a variety of lbgt and anti-bullying efforts. it's called the equality house. you know, they purchased this a while back for about $83,000 and then decided to wait because the guy who runs this not-for-profit agency said he wanted to take his time painting it so it wouldn't be an eyesore in the community. so there you have it. >> westboro baptist, as you well know, is used to doing provocative controversial big statements right now. so perhaps they can hardly complain when a gay rights group does something provocative right across the street. >> they like the media attention so they're probably happy to have the cameras around. >> i think that's a little classier than what the westboro church shows. >> it is such a key moment right no

they were like the westboro baptist church, the same thing.scene. >> kimberly: carnival noise making. >> bob: what are you issues in >> eric: what are you talking about? i'm for keeping, "god" on currency. >> bob: i know. >> dana: for some people god is currency. >> greg: oooh. >> dana: you like that one? >> greg: yes. >> dana: what angers me about the stories we do, they're more zealot about their nonbelief tpeople of relih are about their own religion. manual if they took all of the energy they put toward costing taxpayers money to fight the lawsuits. if they put it toward something positive what they could accomplish. >> greg: like a dog. >> dana: rescuing animals. wife can't they believe in that. >> bob: listen, one thing about atheists, they should spend time with the athschism or preach about it. >> kimberly: they are religious obstructionists. infringing on freedom of religion. they are the biggest violators. bob my little legal scholar there, they are going to use. very specific court ruling that in god we trust is national motto. not

house across from the westboro baptist church.oo. they wanted to make sure it was well done. >> stephanie: it was so tasteful. >> it could use some landscaping though. [ laughter ] >> did they not get a decorator? >> stephanie: roy g. bibb isn't going anywhere soon. >> florida-based nonprofit. they purchased the house directly across from the notoriously homophobic westboro bap baptist church. aaron jackson came across a picture of 9-year-old joseph miles countering the westboro baptist church with a small sign that said god hates no one. aww! >> i saw that. >> stephanie: jackson checked to see where the infamous -- you know what he did? google map street view. [ ding ding ] [ applause ] he said he saw that there was a house for sale. he bought it and painted it the color of the gay pride flag. nicely done, sir. 29 minutes after the hour. the rude pundit next on "the stephanie miller show." >> if you believe in state's rights but still support the drug war you must be high. >> "viewpoint" digs deep into the issues of the day. >> d

across the street from this little house is the westboro baptist church.picketing military funerals with hateful signs attacking fallen gay soldiers. aaron decided to use westboro's tactics against them but not in a way that makes war, but rather in a way that generates peace. he bought that little house and decided to paint it in the rainbow colors of the gay pride flag, and dubbed it the equality house. the process has been in the works for about a year now from buying the house and planning and then finding the right day to rainbow coat it. the right day was this past deuce when professionals came in and painted the house in technicolor. the response from the ghunt has been overwhelmingly positive causing traffic jams on the small topeka street. gifts and kind words are delivered to aaron and his team worldwide. one neighbor told him he loves the house. not only because of the powerful message it sends but because he just finds it pretty. aaron's goal is a simple one. to show the world that where there is hate, there is also love. aaron and planting pea

also across the street from the westboro church. jackson tried to get the seller to reduce the price but he wouldn't budge. jackson's charity coughed up about $81,000 for the house. and on tuesday, the house got painted, transformed in a gay pride rainbow house. >> oh. beautiful spring colors. >> actually looks really good. >> reporter: jackson himself isn't gay but he's big on equality. >> i'm a straight ally as one would say. >> reporter: the plan is for the charity to run anti-bullying campaigns out of the rainbow house. as for the church's reaction -- it sends cnn a statement saying, we thank god for the sodomite rainbow church. it's right across the street from the only church that loves people enough to tell them the bible truth about the sin of sodomy. it helps shine a bright spotlight on this. a mansion it ain't but this humble rainbow house has one thing going for it. >> location, location. i bought this house for the view. >> reporter: from now on, the view from the church property will be as dorothy would put it -- ♪ some

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people of the westboro baptist church, can't hide from the growing influence of the gay rights movement across the street from their mission stands a gay rights center that's impossible to miss. in other words, the issue of gay rights is now literally at the doorstep of the people most opposed to it. joining us now, chad griffin, president of the human rights campaign, and jonathan capehart, opinion writer for the "washington post" and msnbc contributor. welcome to you both. >> hi, karen. >> thank you, karen. >> jonathan, i want to start with you. you wrote about this today and you said that the, quote, quasi triumphant coverage -- i do love how you turn a grease phrase --s week's court cases is making you feel uncomfortable. explain why? >> there's a reason to be feeling jubilant about the highest court in the land taking two cases that speak to the fundamental essence of who i am, of what a lot of people are in this country, lesbian and gay people who want to get married but can't. either because the state they live in bans it, constitutionally or legislatively, or they can't avail th

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the westboro baptist church, those looney tunes were out there, just a hand handful of them on the cornerh their ugly signs. otherwise, it was like a celebration in front of the supreme court. we'll be talking a lot about that this morning and again taking your calls. and as we begin the show this morning, we promise you we'll do our best to keep the lights on throughout the entire broadcast so that we don't end up in the dark again as we did unbelievably yesterday, all of a sudden where everything went out. the power went out in this entire neighborhood. we were off the air for the last hour. and i blame team press here. for not being on top of this. peter ogborn and dan henning. >> good morning. >> bill: why weren't you guys doing your job? >> i thought that the power bill would have paid itself. >> bill: you hadn't written that check. that's what it was. >> bill: stevie lee webb joins us on phones and cyprian bowlding on the video cam. it was pretty shocking. >> i've never had anything like that happen. >> bill: in all of my years of broadcasting, i've never had the lights go out. >> w

doll in his office because this one side is like listening to someone say how cool it is when the westboroe attention of the public and later to fund raise on it. but you know, who doesn't? and but yeah. everybody forgot that this is rand freakin' paul. fetal personhood paul. >> phony libertarian that he is. he's such a libertarian he's against gay marriage. >> stephanie: i would have filibustered longer to keep black people away from your lunch counter. >> he would have worn the depends so he wouldn't have had to take a -- i'm going to go with dump after 13 hours. because you know what? taking a leak is just too easy. i want it to be rand paul suddenly realize he had to have a screaming bowel movement in the senate bathroom after this. >> hal: he did. that's why they let ted cruz talk. that is it. >> stephanie: that's the equivalent of a screaming pile of [ bleep ] [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] also laura your state sucks arkansas sucks because your legislature hates women. just to wrap your mind around this overriding the veto. to ban abortion after weeks to get the supreme court to revis