A community portal about Westboro Baptist Church with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Westboro Baptist Church is a U.S. religious organization headed by Fred Phelps and based in Topeka, Kansas. It runs the website...
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A community portal about Westboro Baptist Church with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Westboro Baptist Church is a U.S. religious organization headed by Fred Phelps and based in Topeka, Kansas. It runs the website GodHatesFags.com , and GodHatesAmerica.com, and other websites expressing condemnation of homosexuals, Roman Catholics, Muslims and other groups. The organization is monitored by the Anti-Defamation League, and classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The group has achieved national notoriety in recent years due to their picketing of funeral processions for soldiers killed in combat, which functions as an extension of the Phelps' anti-United States beliefs.
When it comes to their nutty picketing schedule, Westboro Baptist Church apparently takes a "No Child Condemnation Left Behind" approach:
Next on WBC's docket? Well, we expect them to picket the funeral of "the last trace of shame that once resided within their collective bodies," since it has clearly passed away as well.
***NOTE: The full Westboro press release can be found on their website. However, a link from us is something these toddler-targeting theologians will never receive...
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We can now add John Edwards to the list of people the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) believes to be cursed by God. Not because of the former senator's philandering, but because of his long fight to end the U.S. military's "Don't ask; Don't tell" policy. This past Saturday, WBC claimed that Edwards attacked the church for "preaching God's holy truth about fags" and they called his wife Elizabeth (who was recently diagnosed with terminal breast cancer) a "fornicator-enabler" due to her work as...
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I see that I will have to add some more folks to my “Sit Your Azz Down” list. According to Mediatake.com, members and supporters of the Westboro Baptist Church will be picketing outside of Bernie Mac’s funeral scheduled for tomorrow. According to the church's website, the reason for the demonstration is because Bernie had 50 years to serve God and he didn't. Their statement regarding their reason for the protest reads in part: “Bernie, you had all those 50 years to serve God in spirit and in...
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We heard a rumor that Olympic superstar (and NBC's wet dream) Michael Phelps was distantly related to the notorious clan from Westboro Baptist, so we contacted WBC's Shirley Phelps-Roper to see if there was any truth to it. Here is Shirley's full response, posted with her permission:
I don't know the answer to that fully - but what is simply amazing is that that the lower half of his face looks so much like my Zach's lower half of his face. I had not watched a lot of the swimming until...
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Looks Like They Need More Volunteers to Hold Hate Signs! Fire At Westboro Baptist Church! Actually, it was just Fred Phelps' garage! I'm sure that when many people read that there had been a fire at Westboro Baptist Church, they screamed "Thank God!" Sorry, but no such luck. It was only his garage and the cause of the blaze is yet unknown. Of course, Fred's trying to turn it into a media circus, but, unfortunately, not many papers/TV/radio venues are very interested. Poor Fred. One six...
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Not ones to let a story pass without offering their take, Westboro Baptist Church took some time this weekend to weigh in on John Edwards , the failed presidential candidate who admitted sticking it to a woman ...
Members of the Westboro Baptist Church--the same church that protests funerals of soldiers and homosexuals with signs like "God hates fags"--plan to show up at the funeral of Tim Mclean, the young man savagely murdered on a Greyhound bus just over a week ago. They plan to come with signs, and...
Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord. I have to hope they didn't miss out on that verse. But I suspect they operate from their own version of Scripture. Hope they meet some of that vengeance in Winnipeg on Saturday when they have the effrontery to picket the funeral of Tim Maclean Have to wonder if...
You knew the folks at Fred Phelps‘ Westboro Baptist Church wouldn’t rest for long after a fire burned down the fence and garage of their church.
They made plans to go to Canada to “protest the funeral of a man beheaded on a Greyhound bus.”
The daughter of the founder of the Westboro Baptist...
What better publicity could playwright Alistair Newton have hoped to receive for his forthcoming production, The Pastor Phelps Project: a fundamentalist cabaret, than members of the Westboro Baptist Church themselves showing up to protest outside the Cameron House on Queen Street West?Indeed, he...
The Canadian government has notified border patrol guards to prevent extremist antigay church leader Fred Phelps from entering the country, the Canadian Press reported Friday.
cross posted from Wake up America
For those unaware of who the Westboro Baptist “church” is, you can catch up on all the pieces about them here, but long story short, they protest at military funerals or high profile funerals holding signs that say “god hates fags” or God hates America. To them...
Michael Phelps: The greatest Olympian of all time, holder of several world records, on his way to 8 gold medals in swimming in Beijing.
Fred Phelps: Notorious fundamentalist Christian, ardent anti-gay advocate, on his way to Westboro Baptist Church’s next protest.
Someone had to put them together...