The Westboro Baptist Church — you know, those crazies who hold up the giant “God Hates Fags” signs — has been causing a bigotry-filled ruckus for years now, and that’s exactly what they plan to do when they descend on Richmond, VA this coming Monday, March 11th, to protest the election of Virginia House of Delegates member Danica Roem. Roem, who has received plenty of coverage in this space before, is a devoted metalhead and talented musician. She is also the first trans woman to be elected to a statewide office in the U.S. making for a double-whammy of traits the Westboro Baptist Church finds morally repulsive: a Satan-worshipper AND a transgender person all in one person, the horror!!

Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe, a Richmond native who never hesitates to participate in protests (Standing Rock, for example) and stays quite involved with social issues, is organizing a counter-protest of sorts for Roem, who is also his friend… but don’t call it a counter-protest, call it a counter-PARTY! On his Instagram account this afternoon, Blythe encouraged “all freaks, weirdos, misfits and regular people of good conscious [sic]” to join him at 9am Monday morning at the Virginia state capitol. Instead of engaging with the protesters (a fruitless task), he’ll be bringing 100 plastic kazoos with him and distributing them to all who show up with the express goal of drowning out The Westboro Baptist Church! What fun!!

If you live in the Richmond area and don’t have to work Monday morning, please join Randy. We need you!

Here’s his post in full: