Students saw what happens when smart meets crazy during Westboro Baptist Church event

(NOTE: This article originally appeared in the November 3, 2010 edition of Central Michigan Life.)

There is an old expression that goes something like, “Never argue with an idiot because they’ll take you down to their level and then beat you with their experience.”

Shirley Phelps-Roper is many things. She is a hateful, spiteful, mean-spirited angry bigot whose words and actions are a disgrace to anybody who calls themselves a Christian or professes a love for Jesus Christ.

But she is no idiot.