As the left slowly wins the battle for marriage equality across the country, the far right fringe is having an extremely difficult time coming to terms with the majority support Americans are expressing for equal marriage rights. Case in point: the Westboro Baptist Church is struggling with the organization of their counter-protests, especially as their ranks are spread thin by the sheer volume of same-sex marriage celebrations and events around the country. In particular, the four members of the WBC that showed up to protest in Cranston, Rhode Island, were actually outnumbered by the police monitoring the demonstrations — not to mention the far larger group of people standing in opposition.

In the video below, you can see the Westboro Baptist Church members protesting in Rhode Island, carrying their garish signs and singing versions of popular music that have apparently had lyrics shoved into them by some hateful, anti-gay cousin of Weird Al Yankovic. There comes a point where they’re just trying to do too much — it gets difficult to take them seriously enough to actually be offended by the ridiculous message.

Here’s the video, courtesy of the Providence Journal:

The Providence Journal also goes on to report on the counter-protests arranged in Rhode Island cities:

By 9 a.m., the Westboro Baptist Church members had moved to Providence and were delivering their message across from City Hall, but a larger group supporting same-sex marriage filled the steps of City Hall and countered their message. About half an hour later, the four Westboro Baptist Church protesters and several hundred counter-protesters moved up the street, gathering on the Smith Street side of the State House.

It appears that the Westboro Baptist Church counter-protests are repeatedly running into counter-counter-protests simply too big to manage, as reported by the Journal;

Counter-protesters have been following the Westboro Baptist Church members in their planned multiple stops throughout the state.

The Huffington Post mentions the phenomenon as well, in a piece titled, “Westboro Again Does What It Does Best, Unites LGBT Supporters, Proves Anti-Gay Hate Is Dying.” Writer Karen Lee Ziner reports on the difficulty the WBC faced with marriage equality also becoming a reality in Minnesota:



It appears that Westboro’s ranks are being spread thin as LGBT rights expand around the nation. Gay weddings also began in Minnesota on Thursday, forcing the church to dispatch four of its members to protest there as well. They were no match for the counter-demonstration, the Post-Bulletin reported, as more than 100 same-sex marriage supporters showed up in opposition.

As the battle for marriage equality marches on, LGBT activists and allies are winning state battleground after state battleground, forcing bigots, even those not as outspokenly offensive as the WBC, to the edge of accepted society — and even off it, as it becomes more and more self-evident that there is no inherent wrong in homosexual love, just unnatural and hateful cultural and societal stigma.