Westboro Baptist Church, the fringe-of-the-fringe anti-gay group famous for protesting at military funerals and claiming that God is punishing the country for its tolerance of homosexuality, was spotted this morning protesting outside Sidwell Friends, the school attended by Sasha and Malia Obama...
They believe that the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, as well as the ensuing wars and even the mass shooting last week at Fort Hood, are punishment from God for tolerance of homosexuality. They plan to picket the Fort Hood memorial service this Tuesday...
"Quakers?! Are you frigging kidding me? You pretend to be all non-violent, and you allow the most bloody, deceitful, evil, murderous bastard and his shemale sidekick to place their satanic spawn within your four walls?" reads the posting for today's protest at Sidwell Friends, which is a Quaker school.
Text from
Talking Points Memo, via
The Pajama Pundit. Here are excerpts from some of the comments at TPM:
"The way Westboro funds itself is to be as noxious as possible and then sue cities and states for violating their right to free speech when people just can't take their nasty rhetoric any longer. The WANT to be shut down so they can sue. That's why some of them go to law school."
"I kind of think that they are a church in-name-only. They seem to focus on politicking continuously, not worshiping anything substantial except spreading slander."
"They have no life and no chances of finding anything to do but picket. They were disfellowshipped from the Southern Baptist Church long, long ago. They live to stir things up. The church is primarily made up of a single family and many of them have legal degrees."
"Westboro is not fringe. Its views are quite mainstream within the Evangelical community, in fact. They just have the "courage" to say out loud what is said every Sunday in Church."
"They unwittingly and fearlessly do good liberal work. I wonder whether they're really a radical gay performance art troupe. they probably wind up liberalizing people more than a lot of liberals do!"
Westboro Baptist Church -- what a contemptible group.
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These wastes were in Indianapolis picketing a highschool near my old house for putting on a play about Matthew Sheppard's murder.
ReplyDeleteThey then decided to stop by the Jewish Community Center (also the location of the Bureau of Jewish education, a non-exclusive preschool/kindergarten where my all my siblings and I - Catholic - went to preschool/kindergarten). My sister teaches there part time and I don't think I have ever heard her so angry. No one even seemed to know why the hell they were picketing the JCC but if there is one thing that a bunch of little kids don't need to see it would be these losers. The silver lining is the fact that they are met with almost unanimous loathing even by people I consider to be pretty evangelical.
@A. Fischer: Perhaps what a bunch of little kids need to see is that not everyone is nice and kind. These asshats might be the perfect basis for a lesson about tolerance.
ReplyDeleteThese people are so, so creepy. I don't understand how they get their ideas or on what basis.
ReplyDeleteI lived in the south for six years and was surrounded by Baptists. I don't know a single one who believes as these people do. I don't know why these people call themselves Baptists - they seem to share nothing in common with others . . .
@Deana -- for clarification, WBC is not affiliated with the American Baptist Church (unsurprisingly).
ReplyDeleteFrom Wikipedia:
"The WBC is not affiliated with any known Baptist conventions or associations. The church describes itself as following Primitive Baptist and Calvinist principles, though mainstream Primitive Baptists reject The WBC and Phelps."
I hope this helps.
PJ
In KS whenever these guys pop up to protest a play, school or whatever we turn it into a fundraiser for whatever they are protesting.
ReplyDeleteThe longer they are there, the more money the schools get!
"I don't understand how they get their ideas or on what basis."
ReplyDeleteFaith. They don't need a basis.
WBC is what you get when society says it's ok (or even encourages) people to have faith.