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Behold and quake before the power of the Westboro Baptist Church!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/7903344.stm

Erm, or not. As the case may be.

So, I wonder what the great wrath will be that the Phelps have so promised. I mean, if one person now contitutes a mass protest, perhaps the Apocalypse has been similarly down graded having ones feet tickled for five minutes?

I saw them on a BBC show they are strange,the end times aren't coming for long(I hope there is still so much to do),they are just a bunch of people who picket saying things like,"God hates America",and such I think they are just nut jobs.

"We will picket them, and see if they actually believe those lies they tell about how tolerant and accepting Brits are."

Pwned.

Indeed.

Though exceedingly scary nutjobs. Louis Theroux seemed pretty terrified during most of his interviews. Worst of all was one of the elder Daughters calmly telling him he was going to Hell simply because he'd had a kid out of wedlock.

Bizarre little family that one, and I for one am kind of amused that two of them have been banned from entering Britain! And to perfectly honest, with the whole picketing Funerals thing, I am genuinely amazed nobody has at least kicked their heads in. I mean, I don't agree with the war in Iraq, but I fully appreciate that Soldiers become what they are from a desire to protect our way of life, and it's hardly their fault if the Politicians send them into crap wars.

But to claim somebody was killed in a foreign country is punishment for not hating homosexuals is....a little bizarre. And as I said, I'd have imagined picketing the funerals is a bloody stupid thing to do.

He is hated here. I'm surprised (seriously) he wasn't shot protesting at one of the funerals. I'm not calling for anything at all, but if my son had just died, I were at his funeral, and these showed up saying he deserved to die, well they would reap the whirlwind.

For a while they had a group of bikers following the group around not allowing them to protest. I think thats about the time they started to stop doing that, but I'm not up on current events.

So that's where these nutjobs got off to. Hadn't heard from them in while in the States.

We should keep better track of our crazies, sorry about that.

I am ashamed to have their headquarters in the capital of my home state.

There are few people I hate more than Fred Phelps.

Yarr.

From what I recall, Bush signed into Law an act preventing protesting at Funerals, in so far as it couldn't be within a certain distance.

And Frazz, pretty much my same approach. I've got some friends in the British Army, and I have total respect for what they do. So to picket a funeral for one of them would be met with...yeah...

Chrysaor686 wrote:I am ashamed to have their headquarters in the capital of my home state.

There are few people I hate more than Fred Phelps.

Seconded.

Phelps is scum. I feel sorry for his grand-daughter who he dragged into his insane protests. I heard she won't marry or have any sort of non church-related social life because she thinks the world is going to end in her life time. I'm glad the Brits had the good sense to keep them out of the country.

Found this little beauty on the Wiki page about the website of the group we are discussing...

Wiki Article wrote:On September 19, 2008 - International Talk Like A Pirate Day - a group of protesters in Arkansas began to picket a Convention Center with "God Hates Fags" signs were interrupted by a "counter-protest" from a group dressed as Pirates, affiliated with the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. By waving signs which parodied the WBC group while also referencing passages from the Bible - e.g., "God Hates Cotton-Polyester Blends" - and behaving in a Pirate-like manner, the counter-protesters drew both public and media attention to themselves, forcing the original group to withdraw in defeat. Due to the coincidentally auspicious date, this was seen as a major victory on behalf of anti-WBC movements.[101]

So, how long following this thread can we expect to see a 'God Hates Dakka' website.

Perhaps we could do our own? 'Gork (or possibly Mork) 'Ates Evurywun!'

Pastafarianism FTW!

Why do you guys hate Phelps so much? Just because he got stoned and goes to strip clubs?

my bad, wrong phelps.

IS it just me, or was there a 'Mr Phelps' in the original Mission Impossible?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Impossible

Yes, yes there was.....

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Found this little beauty on the Wiki page about the website of the group we are discussing...

Wiki Article wrote:On September 19, 2008 - International Talk Like A Pirate Day - a group of protesters in Arkansas began to picket a Convention Center with "God Hates Fags" signs were interrupted by a "counter-protest" from a group dressed as Pirates, affiliated with the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. By waving signs which parodied the WBC group while also referencing passages from the Bible - e.g., "God Hates Cotton-Polyester Blends" - and behaving in a Pirate-like manner, the counter-protesters drew both public and media attention to themselves, forcing the original group to withdraw in defeat. Due to the coincidentally auspicious date, this was seen as a major victory on behalf of anti-WBC movements.[101]

So, how long following this thread can we expect to see a 'God Hates Dakka' website.

Perhaps we could do our own? 'Gork (or possibly Mork) 'Ates Evurywun!'

Awesome!

The Westboro Baptist Church piss me off to no end.

I was really shocked in the BBC show when,after going through a box of sings they found one saying weird things about Desmond Tutu,this pissed me off as I am South African and he is a pretty alright chap so that really got my got.

Frazzled wrote:For a while they had a group of bikers following the group around not allowing them to protest. I think thats about the time they started to stop doing that, but I'm not up on current events.

I'm guessing you are talking about these guys. I know a couple of them and for they are pretty decent fellas.

there's time the USA gets things VERY right though

Power to them all.

Don't matter what you think about the war/military/modern society, left wing, right wing or are just a douche. But people should be allowed to bury their children in peace.

Perhaps slightly off topic, but the comments around the 1min 15 sec mark* : That's the America the rest of the world used to see and would really like to see again.


* and again around the 4min 4 second amrk.

reds8n wrote:there's time the USA gets things VERY right though

Power to them all.

Don't matter what you think about the war/military/modern society, left wing, right wing or are just a douche. But people should be allowed to bury their children in peace.

Perhaps slightly off topic, but the comments around the 1min 15 sec mark* : That's the America the rest of the world used to see and would really like to see again.


* and again around the 4min 4 second amrk.

I'm not American but that was beautiful.

Yeah, I normally find that sort of flag waving American patriotism a little vulgar, but that was really great, what a wonderful thing to do, and what a perfect demonstration of the positive side to America that's far too seldom reported on.

I remember being exposed to these morons via Louis Theroux last year.

Im all for freedom of opinion but in the case of these inbred hatemongering word removed they cannot, as far as I'm conrened, leave this mortal coil soon or violently enough.

When Fred Pheps pop's his clogs I hope the local gay populace choose to picket his funeral. Perhaps they can hold an orgy on his grave.

I'm all for the right to protest but aim it the government. It's simple common sense. There are plenty of military bases for them to chant around.

One of my Brother's friends, who's gay, took part in the protest. Good show, I say.

sA

At least this time the UK government got it right when considering who to omit from the nation on political grounds.

These nuts go too far, and are considered an embarassment to the church as a whole. Some biblical passages are controversial, worse if you read them out of context. But there is nothing that supports their attitudes in any well reaserched theology.

I'm not convinced anyone should be excluded on political grounds but in this case I expect they nailed them on the incitement to hatred clause.

Personally I agree with the US video presenter (brilliant video, BTW) who said the great thing about freedom of speech is that it also allows freedom to protest against hate speech.

You can only confront bad ideas by letting them into the open where they can be attacked.

Are these Phelps people anything to do with the Landover Baptists?

http://www.landoverbaptist.org/

warpcrafter wrote:

Chrysaor686 wrote:I am ashamed to have their headquarters in the capital of my home state.

There are few people I hate more than Fred Phelps.

Seconded.

I can think of a few. Most of them are german politicians. But that guy sucks too.

Kilkrazy wrote:

Are these Phelps people anything to do with the Landover Baptists?

http://www.landoverbaptist.org/

I am pretty sure that one is a joke site aimed at Bible Belters.

It is indeed. Link to shop has a banner stating it's a satire site.

Done very well though. It's almost too much...but not enough that it's obvious!

Actually Grotnik it is fairly obvious, if you understand churches, it takes the piss out of religious extremists, but leaves God alone. It's fun witty and doesnt cause offense.

This is how it's done.