View Full Version : Westboro Church goes to new extremes
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100331/ts_csm/291560
This is really screwed up.
I knew about the protests but this is going to a new extreme. Fred Phelps needs to disappear :nope:
Nothing new, they've been doing this for years already. Idiots. :nope:
AVGWarhawk
04-01-10, 09:53 AM
Sometimes I wonder what makes people tick that they would do that at of all things....a funeral. Shame really.
Skybird
04-01-10, 10:04 AM
Verd###te Ar#######er.
This is sick.
No class, no style, no moral justification.
This is not making use of freedom of speech, this is abusing freedom of speech.
That the second court even reversed the initial sentence, is even more sick. It makes the victim the perpetrator.
It makes the victim the perpetrator.
Exactly!
So it's his fault that THEY showed up to HIS son's funeral and he has to pay for it? :nope:
:damn:
AVGWarhawk
04-01-10, 10:21 AM
They are charging for the legal fees incurred with the original case were the father won 5 million but was subsequently repealed. It will now go to the supreme court as the original overturned ruling used freedom of speech as the reason for overturning the ruling. I can understand that ruling. However, I can not understand using a funeral to get your message out.
Bill O'Reilly is going to pay it.
Still bloody wrong that it should come down to it this way though.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Muq_KYGEBak/SaOQzNxO7lI/AAAAAAAABVo/3Sq9d5zoLIo/s400/westboro-gandhi-unlike-christ.jpg
AVGWarhawk
04-01-10, 10:32 AM
I thought I heard that about O'Reilly. Good on him! :up:
That Ghandi quote is a new favorite of mine. Wise words
Weiss Pinguin
04-01-10, 11:49 AM
I thought I heard that about O'Reilly. Good on him! :up:
Yeah, he's earned more respect from me. For what that's worth.
Hearing about protestors like these is almost enough to make me feel ashamed that I live in the same country as them.
nikimcbee
04-01-10, 08:43 PM
I think they should conduct gay weddings infront of their chapel. Payback is a bitch.:haha:
TLAM Strike
04-01-10, 08:49 PM
I think they should conduct gay weddings infront of their chapel. Payback is a bitch.:haha: There was a Micheal Moore skit like that, he drove around with a bunch of Homosexuals in a RV called the Sodomobile and chased these people out of town...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra_fAYl4Th4
nikimcbee
04-01-10, 08:58 PM
There was a Micheal Moore skit like that, he drove around with a bunch of Homosexuals in a RV called the Sodomobile and chased these people out of town...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra_fAYl4Th4
:haha: Not a MM fan, but that was funny. Those two deserve each other:D.
Maybe the Village People could do their next concert there?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO43p2Wqc08
darius359au
04-01-10, 10:26 PM
Quote at the end of the story "Thank god for IED's" maybe those scumbags need one inside their church during one of their hate fest's :damn:
Actually , if we're lucky there'll be a link between the moron in westboro and those militia psycho's that got grabbed the other day ,end up in jail and become some lifer's 'wife' ,poetic justice then;)
Actually , if we're lucky there'll be a link between the moron in westboro and those militia psycho's that got grabbed the other day ,end up in jail and become some lifer's 'wife' ,poetic justice then;)
Justice served :up:
Buddahaid
04-01-10, 11:06 PM
Luckily the sanctity of marriage is preserved, otherwise who knows what kind of sick people might be raised in gay unions. :88)
I don't have any stance on a lot of controversial subjects, but here is what I believe:
Do not force or condemn someone for not believing what you believe. I will not say your religion is wrong or that mine is better, everyone has freedom of choice.
If you're gay, I believe you have every right as much as the next person, like gay marriage.
If you're anti-war, be anti-war, protest, but do it in a tasteful fashion. Lambusting out and acting like these morons is not tasteful and ultimately disrespectful.
Pretty much, taking a step back and looking, I feel this is a universal stand on these subjects. Take the forum rules for example, we are not to start flamewars or harass another member of the forum for various reasons, so why do it in person?
VonHesse
04-01-10, 11:56 PM
Luckily the sanctity of marriage is preserved, otherwise who knows what kind of sick people might be raised in gay unions. :88)
:o... :hmmm:... :06:...
Ooh... I see what you did there. :rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2:
Well played, sir. Well played :salute:
JackAubrey
04-02-10, 09:40 AM
The Members of the Westboro Baptist "Church" are nothing but sorry excuses for human beings. I feel deeply sorry for the children who are born and raised in such a hate filled, intolerant environment.
I deeply despise everything these people say, do or believe in.
Luckily the sanctity of marriage is preserved, otherwise who knows what kind of sick people might be raised in gay unions. :88)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-id4GKsaQk :D (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-id4GKsaQk)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ANrvQC4wIk)
Sailor Steve
04-02-10, 10:46 AM
I don't have any stance on a lot of controversial subjects, but here is what I believe:
The man who stands for nothing will fall for anything!
Do not force or condemn someone for not believing what you believe. I will not say your religion is wrong or that mine is better, everyone has freedom of choice.
But mine is better! I mean the only one that's right!
If you're gay, I believe you have every right as much as the next person, like gay marriage.
I'm right and you're stupid!
If you're anti-war, be anti-war, protest, but do it in a tasteful fashion. Lambusting out and acting like these morons is not tasteful and ultimately disrespectful.
If they are in office, I love my country but I don't trust the government. If we are in office, then the above statement marks you as a traitor.
Pretty much, taking a step back and looking, I feel this is a universal stand on these subjects. Take the forum rules for example, we are not to start flamewars or harass another member of the forum for various reasons, so why do it in person?
Oh yeah? Say that to my face!
Sorry, Chad, couldn't resist. I feel pretty much the way you do, but some of the responses I threw out are very similar to ones I've seen in these discussions. I agree, these people are way over the top.
Disgusting (inbred) scumbags.
OneToughHerring
04-03-10, 01:34 PM
Disgusting (inbred) scumbags.
So you have a problem with freedom of speech?
So you have a problem with freedom of speech?
Do you? It is his freedom of speech to criticise their freedom of speech as it is your freedom of speech to criticise his freedom of speech on their freedom of speech after all. :03:
OneToughHerring
04-03-10, 06:07 PM
Stuff like the Westboro Church seems to be normal in the states. It's their version of christianity.
Sailor Steve
04-03-10, 06:10 PM
That's funny. I've lived here almost sixty years, and I've never met anyone like that.
OneToughHerring
04-03-10, 06:14 PM
Well there's still time for that.
VonHesse
04-03-10, 07:40 PM
Must...
not...
feed...
the Troll
:stare::damn::doh::nope:
TLAM Strike
04-03-10, 07:53 PM
Stuff like the Westboro Church seems to be normal in the states. It's their version of christianity. Not at all most Churches in my city try to help people by giving away food and clothing to the needy and protesting inner-city violence.
OneToughHerring
04-03-10, 07:57 PM
Not at all most Churches in my city try to help people by giving away food and clothing to the needy and protesting inner-city violence.
Even the more one might say mainstream churches have anti-gay and other similar sentiments as key parts of their doctrine. The Westboro Churches are the most vocal but it's all part of the same system of christianity.
Generalizing that all Christians behave this way is far from the truth.
Stereotyping this way is why all people believe Germans during WW2 were Nazis. Nothing further from the truth.
Unfortunately, it takes a few bad apples to ruin the whole orchard :nope:
OneToughHerring
04-03-10, 08:33 PM
Generalizing that all Christians behave this way is far from the truth.
Stereotyping this way is why all people believe Germans during WW2 were Nazis. Nothing further from the truth.
Unfortunately, it takes a few bad apples to ruin the whole orchard :nope:
Well I don't really care what individual Christians think, just as the Church doesn't care. It's about the organisation and the key doctrins it holds on the matter. You think the various Christian churches care what their members think? The churches are not like political parties or businesses where member have voting rights etc. They decide from the top down and that's why the system won't change when it comes to certain key issues.
Well I don't really care what individual Christians think, just as the Church doesn't care. It's about the organisation and the key doctrins it holds on the matter. You think the various Christian churches care what their members think? The churches are not like political parties or businesses where member have voting rights etc. They decide from the top down and that's why the system won't change when it comes to certain key issues.
You realize that this "church" is comprised of people who are largely related to that Phelps guy who runs it, right? I can't find a number for the membership, but it's TINY. Maybe hundreds, probably fewer.
The guy is a loon.
Care to guess what political party he belongs to?
tater
Hmm, conservative a-hole.. Democratic?
Jk, I have no idea..
I stay out of the Repub/Democrat fights.
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