{"id":483,"date":"2009-03-12T23:34:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T03:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/?p=483"},"modified":"2009-03-12T23:34:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T03:34:37","slug":"alpha-delta-phi-v-fred-phelps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/alpha-delta-phi-v-fred-phelps\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha Delta Phi v. Fred Phelps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I worked for my fraternity, Alpha Delta Phi, for a couple years in the mid-90&#8217;s. \u00c2\u00a0Our chapter at the University of Chicago was coming through a rough period back then, and I spent many an evening there talking to officers, giving advice at chapter meetings, and working with alumni. \u00c2\u00a0And I made some life-long friends &#8211; I keep up with the UC goings-on.<\/p>\n<p>I was scanning the blogs today, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2009\/03\/frat-boys-offer-fred-phelps-an-animal-house-protest-for-tolerance.html\">Towleroad<\/a> caught my eye: &#8220;Frat Boys Offer Fred Phelps An Animal House Protest For Tolerance.&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0I looked at the video, and damn if that isn&#8217;t the ADPhi front porch! \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m so proud of these guys. Who knew, sitting there in that house in 1996, that the chapter would be making headlines against bigotry. \u00c2\u00a0It reminds me why I volunteer in the first place.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OZfZiBRFM5w&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OZfZiBRFM5w&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>You can read a bit more about the event on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagomaroon.com\/2009\/3\/10\/westboro-church-protest-meets-students-mocking\">school paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I worked for my fraternity, Alpha Delta Phi, for a couple years in the mid-90&#8217;s. \u00c2\u00a0Our chapter at the University of Chicago was coming through a rough period back then, and I spent many an evening there talking to officers, giving advice at chapter meetings, and working with alumni. \u00c2\u00a0And I made some life-long friends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}