Dan Leveille

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Student turns Westboro Baptist Church protest into LGBT fundraiser

University of Illinois Chicago student Jason Connell turned an anti-gay protest of the Westboro Baptist Church into a fundraiser to raise money for LGBT rights groups.

The groups include the Human Rights Campaign, International AIDS Foundation and Chicago-based Jerusalem Open House.

Jason explains:

All the donations we collect today are going to be made in honor of the WBC and for everyone who donates I have some community thank you cards that we mailed to Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church, thanking them because their presence here is what allowed this to happen.