Every story like this is accompanied by a photo of the family, all wearing the same dreary "I'm such a victim" facial expression. And the kid they're using as the poster child for their cause is featured prominently in the foreground.
Not only will this make life difficult for her now, but I wonder if, down the road, this girl is going to resent having been the center of this sort of notoriety. Knew a teenage girl locally whose obnoxious liberal mother prominently used her to promote some ideological differences she had with the school district. The poor kid hated it and just wanted her mother to stop so that she could go to school in peace.
Some battles are indeed worth fighting, but I can't imagine using my child as a lightning rod to promote my own oddball ideology.
On 9-11, did they go out and worship a tree?? Betcha 10 -1, they were praying...for real.