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Sorry Westboro. Pokemon Go users have won this one.
WITH Pokemon Go, the ‘90s have well and truly made a comeback.
The game involves roaming around in real life, using your phone’s GPS and your camera to catch Pokemon based on your location.
Everywhere you look, people are out holding up their phones at awkward angles, trying to catch everything from the scarce Dragonairs to one of the millions of Zubats annoyingly flapping around.
And in what’s arguably the most glorious thing to happen yet, a giant Clefairy has apparently taken over one of the locations of the notoriously homophobic Westboro Baptist Church.
The fairy Pokemon is nicknamed “LoveIsLoveâ€, a common pro-LGBT slogan, and can be found as soon as you’re within a close enough distance to enter the church.
Considering how much Westboro Baptist Church hate the free world, seeing them invaded by an unapologetic gay-rights-touting mythical fairy who looks like a giant pink marshmallow is a little bit fabulous.
Trolls: 1. Weird Bigots Who Suck The Life Out Of Everything Good In This World: 0.
The church has responded to the trolling by recruiting the loveable pink singing blob Pokemon, Jigglypuff, and making it... well... a bit less loveable.
On their Twitter page, they photoshopped an image of Jigglypuff holding up a pamphlet of Clefairy that reads “REPENT OF PERISHâ€.
They also referred to the offending Clefairy as a “sodomiteâ€, which seems a tad harsh for an animated ball of pointy-eared pink fluff, but hey, who are we to judge.
Pokemon Go launched in Australia and the US on July 6.
In less than a week, it’s already soared to the top of the App Store, where it’s generating more revenue and getting more downloads than any other iPhone app.