Tag: Westboro Baptist Church

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Brickstone takes on the Westboro Baptist Church

Brickstone catches up to the Westboro Baptist Church in Malibu (nice place for a picket!) and asks the members of the anti-gay group questions many of us have wondered:

“Have you ever wondered how good gay sex must be if they’re willing to go to hell for it?”

“Can a person go to heaven if he has homosexual urges but refuses to act on them, and he’s so upset about the openly gay people that he makes his whole family have signs that say ‘God hates fags’?

“Would you glass bottom boat Pat Robertson?”

“Didn’t I jerk you off in a Kmart bathroom once?”

“Why did the Newtown kids go to hell but not aborted fetuses?”

“Didn’t the hot members of your church leave because their brothers were kind of screwing with them?”

I didn’t find the answers terribly revealing, but it was fun to watch.

Assholes.

(via Towleroad)

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Westboro Baptist to picket Sandy Hook Elementary

The Westboro Baptist Church, the hateful congregation known for picketing funerals to spread their sad “God hates fags” message, plans to picket outside Sandy Hook Elementary, the elementary school where Adam Lanza senselessly murdered twenty children last week.

Just when you think Westboro can’t sink any lower – well, they do.

[via JMG]

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Westboro Baptist Church members protest lesbian US soldiers’ funeral and stomp on American flag

From GuardianofValor.com:

So at the funeral today for Fallen Soldier Sgt. Johnson a Westboro member decided it would be smart to stomp on the American flag. A Soldier did not take kindly to that and broke through the line, hitting one of the protesters that was disgracing Old Glory.

As he was being arrested, two other Soldiers rescued the flag. The Soldier was not charged and later released.

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New law thwarts Westboro Baptist Church funeral protests

President Obama has signed a law prohibiting protests during or near military funerals.

The Honoring America’s Veterans and Caring For Camp Lejuene Families Act of 2012 also benefits military personnel and their families with improved healthcare, housing, education, and memorial services.

“We have a moral sacred duty to our men and women in uniform,” said Obama at the bill signing, according to a pool report. “The graves of our veterans are hallowed grounds.”

Protests are now limited to within 300 feet of a military funeral and for two hours before and after such a service.

The law is a none-too-subtle swipe at Westboro Baptist Church, a fringe “church” based in Topeka, Kan., and certified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church has made a practice of picketing military funerals with signs that comes close to bordering on hate speech. Westboro believes that God is killing American soldiers to punish the American people for increasingly embracing LGBT equality. The group’s brightly colored signs bear messages like “Thank God for dead soldiers,” “Semper Fag” and the ubiquitous “God Hates Fags,” which also functions as the group’s Web domain.

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Texas A&M students stand up to Westboro Baptist Church

When students at Texas A&M found out that the Westboro Baptist Church was planning a protest at the funeral of a soldier who was killed in active duty, they formed a “maroon wall” around the church to shelter the family and friends of the fallen soldier. 

The students organized the event after the church announced it would protest former A&M student Lt. Col. Roy Tisdale’s funeral. He was killed during a training exercise at Fort Bragg on June 28.