Kazoos, chants drown out Westboro Church's message of hate

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Randy Blythe of Richmond's heavy metal band Lamb of God met demonstrators from Westboro Baptist Church at the Virginia Capitol on Monday with an unlikely weapon: kazoos.

Armed with colorful plastic instruments, Blythe and more than 100 other counterprotesters drowned out the six WBC members with a cacophony of chaotic noise.

"I couldn't bring my band, so we brought kazoos instead," Blythe said.

Westboro Baptist Church, which the Southern Poverty Law Center calls "arguably the most obnoxious and rabid hate group in America," came to the Capitol to protest Del. Danica Roem as the first transgender woman to be elected to the Virginia General Assembly.