I love it when the mainstream media gets off on the Westboro Baptist Church, because when else do you get cameras inside their sing-alongs? Or a peek at their own footage showing counter-protesters running them out of town?
victims
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PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
I will be the first to contribute to the insanity defense legal fund for any family members whos relative’s funeral was picketed by these inbred savage scumbags who takes the whole band of filth out by any means neccesary…………
Ryan Ryes
If someone goes to hell, then it’s them.
Samwise
Lauren’s clearly a very strong person, to question the hate her family indoctrinated in her and to still love them after they rejected her. It’s quite a contrast to see her saying, “They’re my parents – how could I not love them?” while her parents cast her aside without any regret, just because she didn’t believe every last little thing they believed.
And now they’re saying she leads a sinful and rebellious life. She’s a nurse! What better contrast could there be? She heals people every day while they spend their lives telling everyone that God hates them and wants them to suffer. If there is a God, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out whose life he’d approve of.
I hope those little kids find a way out of that cult. But I wonder if all of us on the outside aren’t making things worse. Think about it: the only contact these kids have with the outside world is when people yell at them, attack them, or try to run them over while they’re picketing. They may start to have doubts about the family doctrine, but suppress those doubts because to question is to be cast out into a world they’ve only known to be hateful towards them.
7
They should all be rounded up and shot. Feel the hate they love spreading.
Cam
Ok, I know that this is sort of like going after Al Capone for Tax evasion but still….
They are copying liscensed music (Lady Gaga, the Beatles, USA for AFrica etc…) for their videos. Why are they not being sued the same way that illegal downloaders are? They are actually putting music videos out there in clear copyright violation.
B
No. 5 · Cam wrote, “They are copying liscensed music (Lady Gaga, the Beatles, USA for AFrica etc…) for their videos. Why are they not being sued the same way that illegal downloaders are? They are actually putting music videos out there in clear copyright violation.”
There are “fair use” exceptions to the copyright laws for parodies among other things. Here are two examples: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woozriwh8dQ&feature=related (it’s a very funny parody of a song from the musical Chicago) and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He4XUD8RyCA&feature=related .
Don’t forget that many of the WBC clan adults are lawyers by training, so they know just how far they can go and get away with it.
William Day
“Hundreds and hundreds of Jews”?
I knew they had a serious rage-on for us, liberals, pro-choicers and the democrats, but this is the first time I’ve heard explicit anti-semetism come out of their camp. Expanding their turf, or just getting more open about exactly who they hate, rather than just specifying “everyone who isn’t us”?
PauL
We need to have indoctrination classified as psychological abuse.
Wood
Best documentary i’ve seen on this “church” was by Louis Theroux, definitely recommend watching it. I think you can find it on google video…. Massive insight
samthor
obviously these children are brainwashed since birth, i can only pity them not hate them. I don’t agree with treating them with violence. violence is not the answer, education is.
Queer Supremacist
@PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS: I’d sell them the weapons.
Republican
It continues to amaze me how gays can get beat up and trashed and yet nothing happens to these hateful freaks. I suppose it’s due to to the fact that they only travel in groups (safety in numbers) and are sue-happy (so the local police feel they have to protect them), but still, it’s surprising that a grieving family member hasn’t taken a couple out at a funeral.
Queer Supremacist
@samthor: Education only works on reasonable people, which leaves out Phelps and his Klan.
kola nut
if i get some sort of incurable cancer …. u may see me and them on the same news story…… Xo
Ken S
I’m curious as to why Child Protective Services hasn’t intervened and removed these mentally ill motherfuckers’ children. I mean from past news stories I’ve heard, apparently you can’t name your child “Aryan Dominance” or send them to school with swastikas drawn on their arms because indoctrinating them with that kind of hate inflicts social stigmatization on them. How is this any different, taking children out to picket military funerals where they might face violent retaliation? I can see an easy argument for child endangerment.
And then, once the kids are out of harms way, someone firebombs their compound, burning these sick fucks alive (I mean, they’re so eager for *someone* to roast & suffer, and apparently place no value on their own lives “if god wants them dead”) and we salt the earth where their ashes fall.
jeffree
@Ken S: I also wondered why DCFS hasn’t intervened. The answer “may vary by jurisdiction” but what I was told by a caseworker in my homestate was that
a) Reports of abuse are investigated primarilly when there are direct witnesses to abuse or clear/ compelling evidence of abuse
b) “Emotional” abuse cases usually dont get the DCFS attention that physical abuse cases get. DCFS is overwhelmed….
c) Reports by teachers/ counselors/ medical personnell of suspected abuse are mandatory for those proffessions but these kids are homeschooled and may not even see doctors.
d) The littler Phelpses are not prob even aware DCFS exists & the older ones are taught the governmemt is the devil
I wonder also if they may have some supporters who keep the klan safe ?