Lawd, I hope St. Peter will dress up in drag for these so-called "Christians" when they reach the Pearly Gates, only to be sent to the bowels of the other place.

We gays are probably also to blame for the lack of conditioner at the WBC bathrooms, if Shirley Phelps-Roeper's hair is any indication.

the crazier they look, the better.

you see, Ronald... god apparently also hates combing the hair (which gay men do ALL the time).

Growing up in Kansas I've spent years telling myself "everyone can see they're insane" and trying to ignore them.

I hate to condone violence, but this time I really hope something happens to them.

My, we gay folk are a busy bunch aren't we? If theres a problem in the world you can bet the christians will blame us.

I am not a member of the Gay Community, nor a Christian. However, I do think that you should be ashamed to trivialize such a horrific and selfish act in Virginia, and try and spin publicity to your cause. The beliefs of right wing Christians should be the last thing that should be on your minds. All of humanity should learn to embrace each other despite our differences, and your community should be leading the pack. Just one chat with the Coward from Virginia Tech could have prevented this entire catastrophe. Please take from these comments that hatred knows no race color or gender and neither does a bullet. When we can all begin to look at each other with the respect of human decency and life, only then will we all be equal.

I \ resent your comment Chris. I think your heart is in the right place, because yes, this is a huge tragedy and it exposes some severe flaws within our society. However after being blamed for 9/11 and Katrina I think we have every right to speak out against right wing Christians who want to act like fools and blame something horrific on us.

Would you *dare* post that kind of comment to a different blog if Mel Gibson blamed the VT shooting on the Jews? Or if Don Imus blamed it on Rutgers Basketball?

btw, if hate knows anything its color, gender, sexuality, religion, ect. Sorta why we're a little pissed at the Phelpses here.

Hi,
As a Christian the Phelpses have long been a painful subject. I'd just like to pass on to you it's been my experience that by far the best approach to these people is to diligently refuse them any attention. Hopefully the courts will find a legal solution to keep them away from funerals. But really, these are mentally ill people who feed on attention, it's like feeding those little monsters in that movie who then go on to destroy the house. I'm really sorry they use God's name like that. I'm sorry they pretend to be Christians. Please don't hold it against the real Christians. They're just abused nutjob children and hopefully they'll be stopped soon. I'm sorry.

YOU PHELPES BETTER NOT COME PICKETING ANYWHERE IN MICHIGAN

WBC, you are a disgusting group of people. You have no respect for anyone, except for your worthless selves. I can not believe you would even touch the subject of the tragedy that happened at Virginia Tech. All you do is walk around judging and hating anyone that is not in your “church”. It’s funny that you claim “god hates fags”, when I’m pretty confident god doesn’t hate anyone. Apparently you’re not the one reading the bible. And, if god hated anyone, I can assure you that you would be at the top of his list. I love how you write about all the people that are being sent to hell for their sins, when your days come be sure to let us know what that’s like.

"for today, we are all hokies"

I was just wondering where all of the garbage on this web site comes from. Have these people ever picked up the bible If so is it one that you have written yourself If you have a bible anyone at WBC how about read these scriptures John 3:16 SAys For God So Loved the WORLD how can you interpret this into him hating what you call homosexuals how about reading ephesians5:2,5:18-21,1:18-23 God Hates The sin not the sinner for he sent not his son to condem the world but through him might be saved Genesis says that God greated man in HIS own image Does GOD hate himself? No He loves us all and yes you are right if repentance is not made for remission of sins GOD has prepared a place for the devil and his fallen angels but how do you expect to win th elost to the kingdom of GOD when all of your time is consumed with hate do you know what the Fruit of the Spirit is? LOVE, JOY PEACE LONGSUFFERING(ENDURANCE, PATIENCE BEING SLOW TO ANGEROR DESPAIR), GENTLENESS(KINDNESS NOT WANTING TO HURT ANYONEOR CAUSE THEM PAIN)WHOA!, FAITH MEEKNESS AND TEMPERANCE i GUARANTEE I COULD GO ON AND ON WITH YOU YOU SAY THESE HAVE BEEN JUDGED AND CONDEMED MAYBE YOU NEED TO GO TAKE A LONG HARD LOOK IN THE MIRROR. John 13:34 A New commandment I give unto youThat ye Love one anotheras I have loved youthat ye also love one another: Signed Jesus.

Wow, as a gay jew I must really control the world then. Where's my check?

You are all disgusting. Plain and simple. You do not know the first thing about God, and should be punished for your actions. I cannot believe that you would actually believe anything that comes out of your mouths. You should all be ashamed of yourselves. I can only hope that each and every one of you from WBC who can honestly say what you're doing is right, burns in hell for eternity. You are not a church, you are a disgrace to God himself.
"For today, we are all hokies".

right wing christians such as myself do NOT blame gays for 9-11 katrina or VT, 80 people who are mostly related ans rely on two out of context verses as their doctrine balem you. they are not a representative of Christianity and should be ignored. we do not blame you at all.

Deanna, thank you, but I don't think we can simply ignore idiodicy like the Phelpses. And Chris, I join in Matt's sentiments. There's nothing trivial about the situation and this blog has not trivialized it at all. I resent being blamed, as a gay man, for VT, 9/11, Katrina and probably every other disaster to befall my country. And BornAgain, please learn to turn your caps lock off. Proper punctuation and spelling would also be appreciated, not to mention the use of your spacebar. I'm sure Jesus will thank you.

I live close to VT and I for one truly hope the WBC comes here. We have some lovely mountains that a few of us would love to help them all get lost in...permenantly. And I'm sure that some of our very large, very hungry wildlife would just love to make their aquaintance. We'll tape it, air it on Animal Planet and market it as a new reality series called "Lunch Gone Wild: What good bears do when they get hungry!" So Phelpses, come on down! Southwestern VA welcomes you as our first contestants!

may god have mercy on yalls souls.

I don't know who is worse, Cho Seung Hui or the WBC...

There's one good thing about the WBC:

they can potentially unite liberals and conservatives.

God help them if they come to Maryland, otherwise I may have to execute "God's Will."

Blaming things like this on us is stupid. Why would god punish us for less than 10% of the population supposably sinning. In all reality, most humans in todays world sin 5-6 times a day. No matter how much you deny it, it is the truth. If you go back to Noah and the Ark. God promised never punish us with a huge disaster because of sins ever again. If you say being gay is a choice, then killing people is a choice too. God didnt make 9/11 happen or the VA Tech Massacre. It was all a choice, right?

I can't tell you how sickening the WBC and its message is. I'm writing a speech on the wretched 'church' and my head's absolutely spinning from the horrendous, ridiculous 'truths' they spew. I think I may literally be ill before the night is over.

I don't condone violence, but honestly.... Due course takes too long sometimes, ya know? Perhaps the salute at a funeral could go terribly haywire and accidentally gun down a good chunk of the WBC members that gathered, eagerly a-protestin' anything and everything. Yea, nay? I mean, it would be God's will and all if it happened.

I have cried tonight. I have cried for the families at VT. I have cried over the depravity of the WBC. I am unbelievably torn up to think that anyone in this day and age could be so short sighted. To think someone could take the message of Christianity, that Christ died for all out of a supreme love for the world He created, and twist it back to the days of the Crusades and the Inquisition, the darkest days in Christendom when the Truth was perveted for the desires of a few. Although I have no affilitation with the WBC, I feel I must apologize for their "wickedness," to use one of their terms. I am proud of my personal faith but mourn for the brutal misuse of the name of my beliefs.

YOU FUCKING GAYS!!!! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU!?!?!?! Just kidding! I LOVE YOU GUYS. Exactly. and thats what my god preaches. Love. Love is all I know....ok I lied I can be hateful, however...Humanity in general is to be blamed for shootings, and such. Why? Because that's why God promised to stand back. So we as human beings can find OUR OWN answers. God doesn't hate anyone. Never once did God say he hated gays....God just dislikes demonic orgies...yet who doesn't? Fuck WBC, they better NOT come to my school (Virginia Tech...)

The WBC is a waste of time, space and air. Let them go to VT, people are ready and waiting. This isn't a religion, this is a hate crime years in the making.

VT was a tragedy; it shouldn't be an opportunity for hate-preaching fools to take advantage of. If everything is the gay community's fault, then it's probably our fault the dinosaurs died, that the Christ died. Honestly, this is just another repeat perfomance in the life of Fred Phelps. The WBC does this constantly, I wonder why I'm surprised anymore by it...

So say that God hates Gays, and Jews, and Catholics and anyone that is not like you. but wait a second. Wasn't Jesus (you know, the Savior, Messiah, Christ) Hebrew...... and Hebrews are Jews. So then I guess He hates his Chosen people and his own Son. The Catholics...... well didn't they kinda spread his name even further after they were formed. and the Gays. Well technically they are all human like the rest of us, which means they are people. and weren't we ALL created in his image? and wasn't the fall of Adam and Eve the fall for all of man kind makeing us all sinners and unworthy? but then wait a second...... Christ came and died and was raised again on the third day and took the sins of the world upon his back for ALL. so wouldn't that included all of the above? and weren't many of his friends the biggest sinners around while the holy men hide behind their hypocricy. and didn't Jesus himself say that it was those sinners that were the worst that actually meant and were humbled in their prayer that were more righteous then the "holy"men that allowed their pride to overflow into their prayers. ....... So I guess WBC, haven't you ever read the scripture about not trying to remove the spec from your brother's eye until you first remove the plank from your own. Virginia Tech was not God getting even with the sinners. It is a mark of the end times when Satan and his minions (aka the shooter) start to take over and put fear into the world instead of the hope we all need.

Hey guys! They won't be picketting at the funerals of the VA Tech kids anymore. Go to this link: http://images.mikeonline.com/images/linksandinfo/WBC_message070420.htm Thanks Mike for stepping up and doing this!

hey guys i hate to disappointed you but god actually dosen”t hate gay people!!! I know i was a shocked as you are when i heard it. he came to me during prayer and told me.

god hates all you scumbag motherfuckers and hes going to resurect Charles manson to go to your fucking house, kill your fucking children, eat their intestines, and then have sex with their fucking organs

…there is a reason why everyone in the world disagrees with you. do you honestly think your beliefs are right.

This is so very sad. I wish that you could leave these children and their familys alone. They have done nothing wrong. They are God's children and belong in heaven. I am so sorry for you and what you are doing....You have no right to judge, you are not Jesus or any other thing or person to declare this on them. Shame on you....you act as if you are christ like and you are not. I will pray for you and all who follow you.

MY sympathy goes out to the victims of the Virginia Tech tragedy. I pray something like this never happens again. It's not the gay community's fault, obviously. And to argue with the old lady who claims to be a real Christian, no one is a saint. She's definitely a sinner as well, so no one has the right to judge anyone. The only way to heaven is through Christ, according to the Scriptures. These people are clearly insane and should just be ignored.

damn, i'd like to open fire on THEM!

there is one thing in this world i believe in - and a book written in an era were opiates were readily available isn't one of them.

I've seen seven headed dragons before, personally... but usually it's looking at my mother coming down off of a bad trip.

These guys remind me of Jim Jones followers or Koresh freaks. Obviously these idiots have been brainwashed their whole lives in order for these young people to interpret the Bible the way they do. It is amazing to me that these people have physically survived up to this point. A family member of a dead Marine will take care of one of them one of these days and the pickets will be finished. Imagine if the father of a dead Marine shot and killed Shirley Phelps-Rogers (funny how she holds her maiden name sacred when the Bible says a woman should leave her parents and cleave unto her husband)...anyway if she were dead, would they continue this bullshit? I honestly hope they all die in a tragic gardening accident...fuckers. I just get enraged when I see them out there picketing. I am a hetero male, but I think I am going to turn gay in order to go against everything they say. There is a special place in hell for all of Westboro Baptist and old man cult-leader Phelps. May they dine in hell tonight...

sanz

it almost makes me ashamed to be a christian with people like the WBC claiming to be christian as well...

I'm curious as to how they'll react when a disaster strikes their community. Who are they going to blame for that?

In any case, members of the WBC, you have my prayers and my pity, that such a thing might not happen to yourselves in response to your own iniquities. Hatred breeds violence. I am actually capable of holding empathy toward the VT shooter; I will be unable of doing so for yourselves, because you literally believe that God acts in such a way, and you will only be getting what you believe people are doomed to receive.

Be careful what you wish for, as the saying goes. I pray you realize the grave error that is your hate before it comes back to bite you.

For God SO Loved the world he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have evelasting life.

First, let me say that I am a Christian. Not the type of Christian that Shirley Phelps claims to be, but one who believes that Christ died and was resurrected for my sins and the sins of everyone else who call on His name. With that said, it is Shirley Phelps and her congregation that is in danger of spending eternity in a place called HELL. My bible says that if you judge, you will be judged. Mrs. Phelps needs to read Matthew7: 1-5 and look at her own sins rather than pointing out her preceived sins of others.

Hey gays how ya all doing? It's it wonderful that we are ruining the world by our gay ways. Sooner or later we gays will rule the world. Damn if I knew being gay would destroy the world and rule the world, I would have started being gay when I was an embro!!!!!!!!

WBC - look out we are coming to make your group gay. Being gay is stronger that your weak god.

Google: LOVING GOD'S HATE to read an expose on Phelps and his family of misfits. A few of many things you will learn: several of Phelps children publicly state they were severely abused by Phelps; the details of his disbarment by Kansas and the Federal Courts; the details of successful lawsuits filed against Phelps for thousands of dollars of unpaid bills. PHELPS HAS NEVER SUED FOR LIBEL!

Also, take time to visit matthewsnyder.com. This is the website of a fallen soldier who is suing Phelps for disrupting his son's funeral. He needs support.

Wow! I'm just so overwhelmed by all the responses from the Xtians - including hatred, revenge, and so on.

If y'all get thru yer fuckin' thick skulls that there is no fuckin' god then maybe all this fuckin' bullshit would be put to rest once and for all.

Read the "good book" and know the truth - The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

As a christian, an alumna of Virginia Tech, and a friend of a couple of the victims, I can only say that I felt saddened by what these people are "preaching." These kids/professors did not deserve to die, they did nothing wrong. No one, wether they are gay, straight, purple (I am partial to maroon), or whatever these people are ranting about from one day to the next should have to experience what happened at one of the best schools in the nation. What happened had nothing had absolutely nothing to do with politics or religion, just with a kid that went crazy. I hurt for the families and for everyone that was affected by this senseless act. These people have nothing better to do than to hurt people who have already suffered by losing loved ones.

now i think belief systems are just as stupid as the next self-respecting, intelligent guy but you lot above seem to be saying this is all the christians fault - i hate to play devils adovocate but WBC aint christians, they turn their back on christian prinicpals such as tollerance and treating people with respect, even if they dont like how you live, just like my religious friends treat me - just the same as those dumb fucks that go blowing themselves up and say they do it for islam. WBC are just fundamentalist assholes

In conclusion, christians have got some silly ideas, like all religions but noone should look at WBC and think christians are gay-bashing nazi fucks like WBC is sayin

I am straight but I keep lookouts on all fronts. We have a very dear frind of the family that is gay and now HIV pos.
Our kids grew up around him and that did not seem to effect them other than they are more tolerant.
Whe you are looking for things to blame things on just remember, ALL and I mean ALL problems can be directly related to MONEY and the love of Money, which results is greed.
People would not be so upset about sexual oritation if they only keep how controlled they are by the governments.
Robert

I am a Christian, and let me start off by saying that WE'RE NOT ALL CRAZY!! So don't even say that the Christians will blame everything on gays. That's just not okay. I don't have anything against gay people, because it is a sin, but so is lying and a sin is a sin is a sin. They're all bad, but we all sin. Therefore, yall should not be blaming Christians for this...it's WBC that you should be blaming. There are crazy people in all religions, races, sexual orientations, etc.

What happened at Virginia Tech is no doubt a tragedy. It devastated our nation, and I think we should all look upon it as just that - a tragedy. WBC is absolutely insane for trying to blame it on people and praise God for it.

I've known about WBC for a while now, and when I heard what they're trying to say about VT, I was enraged. One of the victims, Ryan Clark, was actually from my hometown in Georgia. WBC had made plans to picket his memorial service, which made me want to attend the service to show my support for everyone there EXCEPT them. Unfortunately, my uncle's funeral was the same day and I could not, but apparently someone did. The cops kept WBC from Ryan's family and friends.

Bottom line, we need to let these crazy folks know we stand in full support--OF EVERYONE EXCEPT THEM. They call themselves Christians, but we, as Christians are called to LOVE. They don't love.