The anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, KS, announced plans to picket Seattle’s civic mourning in the wake of the Seahawk’s disappointing loss in Super Bowl XL.
The city’s championship dreams collapsed last night under the weight of sloppy play, questionable clock management, and drive-killing penalties, which the Rev. Fred Phelps blamed on “divine retribution” for recently passed gay civil rights legislation, declaring “The Lord works in mysterious ways… and sometimes through the zebras.”
The controversial church is best known for picketing military funerals, shouting at mourners “God hates fags” and other scripture. But Rev. Phelps has recently expanded his missionary work to more high profile events, including last month’s memorial for the 12 miners killed in the Sago Mine disaster, where protesters held signs reading, “Thank God for Dead Miners,” “God Hates Your Tears” and “Miners in Hell.”
Phelps and his church have protested at the funerals of Matthew Shephard and Mr. Rogers, and have also announced plans to picket the funeral of civil rights icon Coretta Scott King. Citing her vocal support of gay issues, Rev. Phelps called her “an ingrate — unthankful and unholy,” who brought down the “wrath of God” upon herself:
“God hates fags and fag-enablers! Ergo, God hates Coretta Scott King and is now tormenting her with fire and brimstone…”
Rev. Phelps struck a similar chord in talking about Seattle’s Super Bowl loss, saying that God chose to torment fans with momentum-turning penalties and dropped passes in retaliation for the city’s unholy abomination: “God hates Seattle! It was Seattle’s fags who hardened God’s heart, and it was God’s wrath that turned Jerramy Stevens’ hands to stone.”
As for Pittsburgh, he described the Steelers’ home town as a “manly, God-fearing” city… except maybe for some excessive hugging in The Deer Hunter. “That was a little faggy,” Rev. Phelps admitted, “but God already punished director Michael Cimino with Heaven’s Gate.”
The editor inside me forced me to cut my closing paragraph:
Well… I thought it was funny… especially following the obscure “Heaven’s Gate” reference.
Well..
If you are cutting and pasting… Let me forward on a message from Andy Rooney….
Andy Rooney said on “60 Minutes” a few weeks back:
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Why does a Baptist minister give a rip what goes on out here in the Northwest? What’s it to him?
Momus @2,
You know what… NO! You don’t get to hijack a thread by pasting in a 650 word essay you copied from elsewhere. Blockquote an excerpt and provide a link. And preferably, do it in an open thread, because your comment had nothing to do with this post.
If you think I’ve unfairly targeted your comment, well too bad. I don’t have the time to read all my comments, let alone moderate the threads, but I caught this one, so too bad.
Re: #2: Internet hoax. This collection of quotes is falsely attributed to Andy Rooney.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/rooney4.asp
hey Goldy…
Suck my dick
Goldy: Keep listening to the inner editor! Save it for the podcast.
If all gay Democrats get AIDs from bareback “Tookie Williams” sex, is it Bush’s fault? Is it Reagan’s fault? Newt’s?
Would Democrats support the “War On Terror” if the towel heads ran the jets into the NAACP Headquarters instead of the Twin Towers in NYC?
What are the odds in this universe that a two person genes could combine and become a unique individual. You are so lucky to be alive !An even higher improbability is that matter could combine, form into a sentient creature , and have that creature grow up to be the good Rev. Phelps.
How could you waste your one in a billion chance of life and intelligence on voluntarily being Rev. Phelps? It makes me think that God must be like W.C. Fields.
I’ve been waiting for one fo the X-tian rightist spokespeople to say the Saudi-Egyptian ferry sinking was god’s wrath against the, what did JCH call them? the towel heads?,… the Seahawks losing, though, I couldn’t foresee that at all.
P.S. way to sneak your post past Goldy, momus, you’re so clever!
Oh, it’s gone now… you’re not so clever.
Reading Goldy’s report on the Kansas Baptists, I thought I was reading The Onion there for a minute. But I guess this is an actual piece of real life. They even have a website, http://www.godhatesfags.com.
Just goes to show that you can convice people of anything using religion….
The Reverend has issues. He needs to find someone to “experiment” with and thereby confront his inner pervert.
You hardly need parody sites like Landover Baptist Church when real groups like the Westboro Baptist Church are caricatures of themselves.
jch @ 8: Well, for the Republican’s, that’d be Andrew Sullivan’s fault:
http://www.newyorkmetro.com/
JCH, u are an uninformed idiot to provide such an opening. See, Democrats believe in science, and spreading the word that condoms help limit the spread of AIDS. Republican’s believe in abstinence (HA!) and homo-conversion(double HA!). So, yes it would be Bush’s fault AND Reagans, AND Newt’s. Especially Reagan’s. RR’s unwillingness to act when AIDS became known and accepted for what it was (a contagious disease) is one of the reasons why he’ll never be more than a historical footnote, not the “greatest President who ever lived” (triple HA!), as mindbogglyingly claimed by the conservatives. Culture war genocidal madman is more like it.
Larry, JCH is a deeply closeted homosexual who loathes himself and therefore lashes out at gays. I suspect he may also have some african ancestry given his deep racist beliefs.
One day Goldy will do us all a favor and let us know what all these jerk-off’s IP addresses are so we can out them to their neo-con buddies.
There is ZERO chance Fred Phelps isn’t gay. No way, no how he isn’t.
Ohhh, man… it just hit me!
JCH= Uncle Ruckus!
(if you dont’ know what that means, you’re missing out!)
If a meteorite lands on Rev. Phelps, does that mean God despites Rev. Phelps and the bigotry and hate Phelps stands for? … Dear God, I wonder if I could ask for a BIG favor …
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Gee, Momus Pompous Assus got caught vomiting a rightwing urban legend! Now ain’t that just like a winger — to post BULLSHIT. You ought to check a debunker before you regurgitate, dummy.
You don’t have to be a weatherman to know that if Momus is posting there’s a 100% chance of bullshit.
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What’s to be said about a bunch who gets attention by disrupting military funerals? Better left unsaid. From what I know about military families, they’re lucky to still be alive.
HOW DO YOU SEPERATE ROGER RABBIT FROM A GAY MAN.WHY YOU USE A CROW BAR.ROGER THE BUTT FUCKER.
By all means, please let the good “Reverand Bible Thumper” picket the funeral Of Mrs. King. We may have one less homophobe to worry about.
Remember that quote from the movie Inherit the wind.
Proverbs 11:29
Ah yes…those charming folks from Westboro Baptist, who a year ago were rejoicing about how the tsumami was God’s punishment for gay vacationers from Sweden.
Any chance “YO” isn’t gay? Not a chance. Too bad your best friend rejected your advances during that camping trip, YO. It’s made you a bitter person.
oy i heard that your buddy comes in a rubber so you can take your lunch to work.
fred phelps has been around for years. those of us from act=up and queer nation have been dealing with freak of hatred since the beginning of the aids epidemic. i must say it’s nice to see him “expanding” his hit list. at some of the marches phelps would be surrounded by police officers holding nightsticks facing the crowd to protect him from the evil drag queens that wanted to kill him. he’s a sick sick man. his family is always with him. they’re all inbred. brainwashed. abused. most likely incest to blame. so, yeah. the rest of the none gay world finally gets to see the hatred that the gay community has been reeling from for the past 15 years or more.
since we had the honor of hosting phelps and his family (the church is nothing but his extended inbred family members) for a couple military funerals in my state. so we heard more about them than i cared to hear for a few days, including this: this church exists because phelps sues cities who try to deny his free speech rights…he lives off the cash he makes in these law suits. apparently he’s decided that people stopped caring that he protested gay funerals so he’s had to move to other gigs to get the attention he needs to keep the $$ coming in. sick puppy. wonder why the wingers don’t condemn him???
JCH, still stupid, still a racist.
JCH and Phelps, sittin in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g (hey, being gay is cool, but being a self-loathing closeted bigot sure as hell ain’t…)
Maybe the refs in the Super Bowl were fags and its not Seattles
fault.
Hey Goldy, if the Rev. Phelps suddenly has a massive stroke and passes on, then drinks are on me! I know my heart would just fucking bleed……….hopefully he’ll stay in Kansas where he so rightfully belongs. Thanks for the thread.
Somebody should definitely picket Phelps funeral when he dies.
Somebody should definitely picket Phelps funeral when he dies.
Picket? Hell no. Modified Irish Wake!
32, Mr. X, Hate Post! Jules will be over to take a deposition. Hymie and I will sue you and take your home. This is the Democrat way!
JCH,
Say that anti-semitic shit to my face – I fucking double dog dare you.
“Double dog Dare”???? Why, that’s “hate speech”! Depositions, and law suits are my game! I hope your home has a pool and a view!!
Whatever, bitch.
You Rethugs are just a bunch of pussies. Show your face, I dare you.
oy i heard that your buddy comes in a rubber so you can take your lunch to work.
Please tell me one of the following is true, X:
a. That was an example of high, Monty Pythonish, ultra-ironic satire.
b. You are in the eighth grade.
Fred Phelps. What a treasure. He needs to be on one of those wife swapping show. The ones where the producers set-up a wing nut and an airy fairy and let the fur fly. So much for Norman Rockwell’s America. With Bush in charge, it’s no secret we’re all on the way to the trailer park. Just put a wig on him. Armageddon is go!
Castrati- see post#2. Once again you priove that leftists have to censor free speech. They cannot debate so they must use Nazi (Natioanl So-shia-lisit) tactics. Wanna see how Castratis censors posts? Simply try to enter the word “So-shee-a-list” in a post using the correct spelling.
Now the supposed excuse is that the software filters it. But Mr Castrati claims to be a programmer and the source code for his blog is available to the public for free.
What a liar!