• It was all about the Good Times last night at the eastern bloc-housed, Chris Bell-spun, Queerty-loved, Svdeka-soaked weekly party. Check out some pictures over at Twerking and plan your pose for next week. Same gay place. Same gay Good Times.

• Keith Olbermann names voter/gay scandal-ridden political, North Carolina Representative Patrick McHenry "worst person in the world".

• Trans activists in Massachusetts are pushing for a bill to lift their 100% natural rights. (Get it?)

• Fred Phelps and his rootin' tootin' Westboro Baptists are gearing up to protest Reverend Jerry Falwell's funeral. From GodhatesAmerica.com:

WBC will preach at the memorial service of the corpulent false prophet Jerry Falwell, who spent his entire life prophesying lies and false doctrines like 'God loves everyone'.

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After a massive outcry against their insistence to protest—or preach, as they called it—at the funerals of this week's tragic Virginia Tech massacre, the Westboro Baptist Church has called things off. Not out of sympathy for the victims or anything, but because radio jock Mike Gallagher offered to give the Church an open mic during the time slot usually occupied by his radio show.

Gallagher made a similar offer to the Westboro Baptists in the wake of the Amish school shootings in Pennsylvania last year—an offer the WBC similarly accepted.

God may hate fags, but he sure loves attention, doesn't he?

BBC has aired a documentary on everyone's favorite fag-hating family: The Phelps of Topeka, Kansas. As you know, papa Fred Phelps has bred his virulent anti-gay politics into his hellish horde of homo-haters, thus resulting in a brood so large and so venemous BBC has deemed them America's Most Hated Family. This here's just a taste of the madness.

While we're used to the Phelps' funeral picketing, ridiculously broad Biblical references and general bad attitudes, it's particularly entertaining to watch a seemingly prim and well-mannered British journalist Louis Theroux's dumbfounded shock at the family's unabashed bigotry.

As you can see, he's at once scandalized and somewhat amused by this exchange with current leader Shirley Phelps:

LT: So, these are your signs. You've got 'God Hates Fags' here."
SP: Uh-huh. And God hates you. Just don't think of fags as just those guys who are taking it up the tail pipe.

Don't worry, BBC warns viewers, "There's some strong language and offensive attitudes". They do not, however, warn of the totally awesome opening number. The Westboro Baptists again prove what we've long known: they're rock stars. And those girls are definitely going places. Where...well, we'll let you decide.

Also, we have to say we're totally in love with Louis Theroux. Watch some more of his investigation over at Good As You.

There's so much to say about what you're about to see that we don't even know where to begin. So, we'll start at the beginning: the video came from two readers.

One reader described it as "appalling" and promised that we would be "insulted". Another reader - in fact, our old friend Joe from The Cup of Joe, presented it thus: "For those of you who haven't seen the joy that is this video".

Now, those are obviously opposing statements, but let's just say both reviews hold water.

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Bad news for Fred Phelps and his marine-funeral picketing bandits. A Kansas judge ordered them to pay Albert Snyder $3150 for a summons and complaint Snyder filed against Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church. WBC protested at Snyder's son Lance's funeral back in March. Needless to say Albert wasn't pleased. NBC affiliate WGAL reports:

[Albert's] federal lawsuit, filed June 5, alleges church members violated the family's right to privacy and defamed the Marine and his family at the funeral and on the church's Web site.

Phelps and the church refused to grant a waiver in the serving of summonses in connection with the federal lawsuit, making the church liable for those costs.

At least once a week we head on over to The Westboro Baptist Church's lovely God Hates Fags to see what's cooking with our favorite homo-haters. We usually don't stick around for that long - not because we're utterly repulsed (which we are), but because it's just so disorganized! Seriously, they need to hire someone to spruce it up a bit. They're not keen on the homos, so no help there, but we're sure they can find some closet case in their midst to make things a little more pleasant. Is it so much to ask for a better looking ugly website?

Anyway, we were just poking around and came across an incredible sixteen page collection of The Westboro Baptist Church's so-called "Patriotic Songs". Of course, when they say patriotic, they mean talking smack about how America's nothing but one big Sodomite-loving den of iniquity. Here's a mere taste of their musical stylings; we don't know the tune, but we sure do love the lyrics:

O wicked land of sodomites
You've reached the bottom rung
On top of all your filthy deeds
You eat each other's dung
...
O wicked land of sodomites
You love to worship flags
You wave ten like a bunch of fools
You're overrun by fags.

If anyone wants to make a music video and send it our way, we'll gladly post. Bonus points if you can get Fred Phelps to drop it like it's hot. Naked. (Ew.)

We may have found the only recorded evidence that Fred "God Hates Fags" Phelps can blush. An Australian reporter proves himself to be a "fag pervert" in this video where he compliments Rev. Phelps on his "very nice voice," his "very firm butt," and even asks if Phelps "gave him a look."

There is also a cameo appearance by Queerty favorite Shirley Phelps-Roper.

Watch the video after the jump. We have been giggling since the weekend over this.

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After arranging for police protection for their protest at a slain Marine's funeral in Michigan, Shirley Phelps-Roper and the rest of the motley Westboro Baptist Church crew decided not to show up, and now the police are pissed and want to charge them $5000 for wasting their time.

The reason the crazies didn't show up was not because protesting at soldiers' funerals is illegal in Michigan, but rather because "the Holy Ghost told them at the last minute to stay home." Maybe they should tell the Holy Ghost to pay their $5000 bill. With only 100 members in their church, that's a good chunk of change they'll have to shell out for their whimsy. Shirley may even have to forego getting her hair permed this month.

Michigan community bills Kansas church over protest no-show [Kansas.com]

The Mistress of the Westboro "God Hates Fags" Baptist Church has not been deterred by her run-in with Fox News siren Julie Banderas, and she has taken her fight to the Southern Baptist Convention, where she rips into a pastor who has the patience of Job (and a really long battery in his video camera), telling him how the Convention is a whorehouse and a leper colony that worships the idol of the U.S. flag, where the red represents the rectal blood of fags. Yep.

We love being defended by Southern Baptists perhaps even more than Fox News anchors. Shirley Phelps-Roper is really doing the gay community a huge favor by making centrists out of even the most socially conservative people in the nation. She has raised the bar of bigotry so high that she and her family dwell pretty much alone, and in doing so have changed the dialogue. The biggest coup of all will be when Phelps-Roper makes her inevitable appearance on The O'Reilly Factor and Bill O'Reilly, after being cowed by her formbidable oratory skills (she is a lawyer, after all, albeit a totally crazy one), is forced to say we're not so bad after all.

Watch the three videos of Shirley Phelps-Roper outside the Southern Baptist Convention after the jump.

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