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prolegomenist

prolegomenist

I'm lost
May 2005

JUN 28, 2005 08:24 PM

These Westboro Baptist Church fuckers are weak. Two years ago, they claimed to have informed the FBI that I was sending them death threats via email.

reversehalo

reversehalo

Zimbabwe
January 2005

JUN 28, 2005 08:38 PM

They should have gotten the National Guardsmen from Kent State in 1970 as the security detail, if you know what I mean. wink

Sexdwarf

Sexdwarf

Hermosa Beach, CA
February 2003

JUN 28, 2005 08:46 PM

This was actually a pro gay protest, they were doing their best to make anti-gay supporters look worse than they already do.

Andvari

Andvari

Calgary, AB
April 2005

JUN 28, 2005 08:49 PM

seraphan6 said:
It's surprising no one was arrested. Had I been there, I'd have taken a baseball bat to some of those hate mongers.



Problem is, these guys want to be martyred. It would get them so news coverage and that's what they crave. Ultimately the best thing to do is to ignore them and let them choke to death on their rage.


I admit that its very tempting to help with the choking though.

LuckyThirteeN

LuckyThirteeN

Jacksonville, FL
October 2004

JUN 28, 2005 09:48 PM

they're from a church???
Irony is a big fat whore of a biatch

PatrickY

PatrickY

Vancouver, WA
December 2003

JUN 28, 2005 10:14 PM

thefreak said:


......I'm sorry, guys. Words fail me on this one.

-TM



What's most sad is that the girl on the left is essentially innocent, at a point in her life where she's a blank slate. She can't read her shirt, and she can't really conceive of, or internalize the indoctrination she's no doubt already receiving.

The girl on the right is just old enough to be able to regurgitate the crap they're feeding her, as rote sloganeering that doesn't really mean anything to her.

They're happy, and probably pleasant little kids, who are on the cusp of being lost to lives of unreasoning hate. It makes me sick, and it makes me sad.

venomkid

venomkid

I'm lost
January 2003

JUN 28, 2005 10:21 PM

The Westboro Baptist Church should be burnt to the ground along with its hateful ways.

And those protesters should be beaten until their very bones reverberate with our rejection of their ideals.

Not out of hatred, but out of love and defense for our brethren whom they are attacking.

Tekky

Tekky

SUICIDEGIRL

Ontario, Canada

JUN 28, 2005 10:31 PM

UGH WHY IS IT ALWAYS KANSAS?!

I HATE.

trilobyte

trilobyte

Black Rock City, NV
February 2003

JUN 28, 2005 10:36 PM

Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, don't fail us now.

~Trilo~

PatrickY

PatrickY

Vancouver, WA
December 2003

JUN 28, 2005 10:39 PM

Tekky said:
UGH WHY IS IT ALWAYS KANSAS?!

I HATE.



Have you ever heard the phrase "Friends of Dorothy"?

Well, Dorothy was Kansas born and bred, so it makes sense that the Westboro folks would go there to challenge the glam red shoes head on.

It's a cultural totem thing.


Ok, so it doesn't make sense, but I like the phrase friends of Dorothy, and cultural totem sounds cool.

lock

lock

United Kingdom
December 2003

JUN 29, 2005 05:55 AM

God people like this piss me off,
how dare they?

skeptik

skeptik

New Orleans, LA
February 2004

JUN 29, 2005 06:22 AM

Chitin said:

karaokejihad said:

thefreak said:


......I'm sorry, guys. Words fail me on this one.

-TM



she's totally making a move on the younger one. love


The one on the left has the most vapid expression I've ever seen on a child. She must be in THAT stage of the brainwashing.


Well, that certainly does look like Kool-Aid stains around her mouth ....

PointBlank

PointBlank

New York, NY
November 2004

JUN 29, 2005 06:28 AM

These Westboro guys are so nuts, they almost seem like they're doing a gay performance art piece making fun of homophobes.

edited because their and they're don't mean the same thing.

[Edited on Jun 29, 2005 by PointBlank]

EdmundOG

EdmundOG

I'm lost
July 2004

JUN 29, 2005 07:10 AM

Here's some fun facts about WBC's founder, courtesy of Wikipedia...


Though the children that remain loyal to him claim that they were only spanked as children, there is an abundance of evidence to support the claims of two of his daughters and two of his sons that Phelps was physically abusive to his children and wife.

Phelps' sons Nate and Mark, who claim that they were among the most abused, each suffer permanent debilitating injuries consistent with their stories of Phelps beating them with a mattock handle. According to the boys, he woke them one Christmas Eve in the 1970s while under the influence, bent them over a bathtub, and struck them nearly 300 times with the mattock handle.

In 1972 the boys showed up to school covered in welts, bruises, and bleeding wounds; the school nurse determined that Nate exhibited signs of shock. The family was investigated by social services, but Nate and Mark claim that their father threatened them with death if they spoke about their beatings. Phelps likewise issued threats against individual police officers and school staff, and filed a lawsuit against the school claiming they beat his children; the charges against Phelps, and Phelps' lawsuit, were dropped, but the affidavit that the school principal issued to social services remained on file as concrete evidence to support the stories of child abuse.

In the early 1990s Nate Phelps was diagnosed as suffering post traumatic stress syndrome. He and his brother have each been diagnosed as having suffered damage to the muscle tissue and tendons in their buttocks and legs, and both have scarring on their backsides, which they claim is the result of Phelps beating them with a custom made four-inch-wide strop. Around 1994 Nate was diagnosed as suffering bone chips and severe damage to the muscle tissue in his knees.

Marge Phelps, the boys' mother, suffers from bone chips and severe cartilage damage in her right shoulder, consistent with a story three of the Phelps children tell about Fred throwing her down a flight of stairs.

Many of the Phelps children who remain at Westboro openly admit to using physical violence against their children; Phelps' son, Jonathan, boasted to the Topeka Capital Journal in 1994 that he regularly beat his wife, Betty, and his children. On occasion members of the church have dared police and government officials to try and take legal action against them.



He's been arrested about a dozen times on charges ranging from disorderly conduct to assault to witness intimidation. He's managed to escape prison mostly on technicalities. If he ever sets foot in Canada again, he will be immediately arrested and put on trial for a variety of crimes...

...I really hope he goes to protest a gay wedding up there.

dem_z

dem_z

United Kingdom
June 2004

JUN 29, 2005 09:26 AM

Sexdwarf said:
This was actually a pro gay protest, they were doing their best to make anti-gay supporters look worse than they already do.


PointBlank said:
These Westboro guys are so nuts, they almost seem like their doing a gay performance art piece making fun of homophobes.



I read this story and I thought "What. The. Fuck??" and then I started thinking "It must be parody. It can't be real." but it is real. It's just plain bonkers. I cannot understand what these people are thinking. The only thing that makes sense is that they're trying to make homophobes look worse. But even that is pretty nonsensical.

So, reall,y all I can say is surreal

Soldatka

Soldatka

Germany
May 2004

JUN 29, 2005 02:27 PM

EdmundOG said:
Phelps' sons Nate and Mark, who claim that they were among the most abused, each suffer permanent debilitating injuries consistent with their stories of Phelps beating them with a mattock handle. According to the boys, he woke them one Christmas Eve in the 1970s while under the influence, bent them over a bathtub, and struck them nearly 300 times with the mattock handle.



He's really filled with God's fucking love isn't he? surreal

Hexe

Hexe

HOPEFUL

I'm lost

JUN 29, 2005 02:58 PM

Soldatka said:

EdmundOG said:
Phelps' sons Nate and Mark, who claim that they were among the most abused, each suffer permanent debilitating injuries consistent with their stories of Phelps beating them with a mattock handle. According to the boys, he woke them one Christmas Eve in the 1970s while under the influence, bent them over a bathtub, and struck them nearly 300 times with the mattock handle.



He's really filled with God's fucking love isn't he? surreal



I think these are the type of wackos that claim God is all about hate, not love. It's the kind of thinking Neo-Nazis have. surreal

Deux

Deux

Oak Grove, KY
January 2003

JUN 29, 2005 03:49 PM

"And to think, Smithers, if I were to have them killed, *I* would go to jail."

- Montgomery Burns



I don't understand people like that. Their blind hatred absolutely boggles my mind. What could they possibly have hoped to gain by disrupting that poor soldier's funeral? How dare they lay that shit on a grieving family? How fucking heartless and mindless must one be to buy into that kind of bullshit?

napalmtheory

napalmtheory

I'm lost
June 2005

JUL 03, 2005 05:04 PM

Unfortunately, 'Reverend' Phelps was a lawyer. DIsbarred, but was a lawyer. He's not stupid, just ignorant. The man protested the funeral of Mr. Rogers. I remember reading an interview with a little girl from Westboro. She spouted the usual bull about 'fags' and the whole dogmatic drama. When asked if she knew was a 'fag' was, she replied in the negative.

THey want attention. They get it regularly. I can't wait until the head honcho dies, and I hope that will break the spell. If I pray for anyone, I pray for his wife.

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