![]() "I didn't know too much about the community as a whole. ![]() ![]() "I've always considered myself an ally," he said. Jackson spent months researching LGBT rights, turning his whim into a mission. We were pretty nervous, like, 'That's it, I can't believe we're here!'" "At the time it looked like a huge kingdom over there. He left Florida for Kansas to move into what's now known as Equality House, where 22 area houses were occupied by church members. He was living in Florida at the time, running a nonprofit called Planting Peace, which does humanitarian and environmental work around the world. soldiers, often holding signs that read "God hates fags." The Anti-Defamation League calls the church "a homophobic, anti-Semitic hate group." The WBC is known to picket funerals of U.S. Jackson's idea was in response to controversy the Topeka, Kansas church has generated since its founding in 1950. Aaron Jackson (Courtesy of Aaron Jackson)
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