Aaron Jackson and his rainbow-painted house are behind enemy lines in Topeka
This happens all the time,” Aaron Jackson says as he looks through his living-room window. A gold Ford Explorer has pulled to the curb. It’s idling so that its driver and a passenger can peer at the Westboro Baptist Church, across the street. They take in the upside-down American flag, the various signs declaring the church’s hatred of gay people. After a minute, the Explorer moves on.
On this late February day in Topeka, inside the two-bedroom house at 1200 Southwest Orleans Street, across the street from the Westboro compound, Jackson and Davis Hammet are plotting. They’re talking about their plan to piss off Westboro, the hate group next door.
