Westboro Baptist Church - Rev (WTF!!) Fred Phelps
These crazies are on trial here in Federal Court over a funeral they protested (ruined) in Westminster, MD. The family of the deceased soldier is suing them.
Fred is looking pretty frail and feeble on the news. Maybe Gawd :sarcastic: will call him home soon....and I hope that he does not become some kind of martyr for the lunatic fringe.
This kind of crap is what make me so suspicious of organized religion and especially religious extremism. Have they no shame?
I'm not a hater, but I'm really :mad: :banghead: about the actions of this group, and I hope that seeing the kind of hate displayed by these folks inspires people who are fed up with it to perform acts of great kindness and do great and good things that more than balance the pain that these people have caused and the havoc they have wreaked.
I also hope they have their :moon: handed to them in the lawsuit!!
Re: Westwood Baptist Church - Rev (WTF!!) Fred Phelps
That guy is a major sick fucktard... Religion is just gone too crazy in this country... I hate to see every politico bowing to some douche like Robertson, the Pope - name your wacko to get religion cred. Aaaargh...!!!!
But to pick on funerals of our war dead is just so bizarre. How much can you hate gay people that u would ruin such a sad occasion with it... THe more I read about these wacko christian groups and the stats of American who believe in the literal truth of the bible, Canada and Europe are looking awfully good!!! Mite be time to relocate!
They need a new bumper sticker ...
Jesus loves u!!
( Unless you are gay, atheist, agnostic, jewish, islamic, bhuddist, democrat, french, bush-basher, against taxes, pro-choice, feminist, liberal, poor, enabling the terrorists, bill clinton, hillary clinton, snoop dog, satan ) It would be a long bumper sticker....
Re: Westwood Baptist Church - Rev (WTF!!) Fred Phelps
It's Westboro, not Westwood. And if old Fred dies, someone else in his family will take up where he left off. They're a huge family and pretty much all of them share his views. His granddaughter even ran for office not long ago (she lost, thank G-d; she was only running because the favored candidate was a lesbian, which of course we can't have in government).
Me, I find these people fascinating. I've been known to spend hours on their website.
Re: Westwood Baptist Church - Rev (WTF!!) Fred Phelps
They show up down here from time to time for the same reason but we have a bunch of VERY large good old boys with VERY loud scooters called the Patriot Gaurd , they show up for crowd control on these crazy SOB's......and it works REAL good ! They haven't been back after it happened to them 2 or 3 times.........;D
Re: Westwood Baptist Church - Rev (WTF!!) Fred Phelps
Personally, I would rather the cops just look the other way & let the bikers have at Phelps and company, but I'm glad to see the malignant bigot on trial.
Re: Westwood Baptist Church - Rev (WTF!!) Fred Phelps
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Yekhefah
It's Westboro, not Westwood. And if old Fred dies, someone else in his family will take up where he left off. They're a huge family and pretty much all of them share his views. His granddaughter even ran for office not long ago (she lost, thank G-d; she was only running because the favored candidate was a lesbian, which of course we can't have in government).
Me, I find these people fascinating. I've been known to spend hours on their website.
Yeah I can see that - Im really fascinated by their own duality - ie how they act vs their beliefs. Haggert being the prime example of that - being so anti-gay, then having oral sex w/ random men in public restrooms. It only goes to show what a sham it is. Swaggert, baker - all of them. Then the extravagent spending. I was watching some prayer hour and they had this huge church all covered in marble with a 30 piece orchestra and chorale - singing this god-awful song ( I wont call it a hymn ).. ANd her in good ol' VA, are tons of these mega - churches. Amazing... that no one sees the irony on all this.
All tax-free ... Aaarrgh .... Makes me vomit!!! And then there is Fred ... blech!
Re: Westwood Baptist Church - Rev (WTF!!) Fred Phelps
Re: Westwood Baptist Church - Rev (WTF!!) Fred Phelps
These are the "God hates fags" people right? I can't even look at them or hear anything about them, I break out. A vein in my forehead starts bulging.
I'm usually against "personal attack" lawsuits but this has my YEA YEA YEA behind it!
Re: Westboro Baptist Church - Rev (WTF!!) Fred Phelps
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I_luv_dancers!
This kind of crap is what make me so suspicious of organized religion and especially religious extremism. Have they no shame?
I also hope they have their :moon: handed to them in the lawsuit!!
Fred and his church are not part of any organized religion; their church is independent. The word "Baptist" is in the public domain--anyone can open a church and call it a Baptist church.
I have yet to talk to anyone who IS a member of an organized religion (I am a Lutheran, and nobody knows for sure whether we are organized or disorganized.) who is not horrified at what this church stands for and what it does. In fact, a Presbyterian minister told me that she was beyond offended and was royally pissed off by them.
Putting up with these obscenities is the price we pay for our own free speech.