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01-24-2008, 07:33 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Inland Empire | | | Group plans to picket Heath Ledger's funeral
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,324966,00.html
Yup, it's Westboro. 
Story not pasted because it has religious content.
Anyway, we can discuss the civil liberties vs common decency aspect right? |
01-24-2008, 07:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | | Does this surprise me? Nope, not at all. Anyone want to go knee breaking?
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Originally Posted by username n/a  How is a picture of me feeling up a stranger music related? | |
01-24-2008, 07:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New City, NY | | | You stay classy, Westboro Baptist Church
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Originally Posted by fdeck Of course I plug my little amp into a power system known in the industry as THAT OUTLET OVER THERE. :D | |
01-24-2008, 07:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Modesto, CA | | | Why doesn't anyone protest them back? It would seem that a good dose of their own medicine would be in order.
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01-24-2008, 07:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jady Why doesn't anyone protest them back? It would seem that a good dose of their own medicine would be in order. | Good idea. I want to see some Christians out protesting them. I know I would.
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Originally Posted by username n/a How is a picture of me feeling up a stranger music related? | |
01-24-2008, 07:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: San Diego, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jady Why doesn't anyone protest them back? It would seem that a good dose of their own medicine would be in order. | There's actually a group called the Patriot Guard Riders that goes to the Marine funerals that the WBC pickets in order to block them from view. Apparently they will hoist US flags to block their view and start singing patriotic tunes ("God Bless America", "America the Beautiful", etc) when the WBC starts chanting and doing their protest songs.
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01-24-2008, 07:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lakeland, FL | | I thought the got sued out of existance?? It's been a while since they've been able to even form a group of more than one member 
Protesting the the funeral of a guy that played the role of a gay person in a movie  That's almost comical  |
01-24-2008, 07:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Western PA | | | I can't believe that after all this, there isn't ONE single Marine with PTSD that would say enough is enough and climb up into a clock tower with his rifle.
"Those individuals showed what one motivated Marine and his rifle can do!"
Of course I wouldn't condone that kind of behavior, but I could understand it.
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01-24-2008, 07:58 PM
|  | is, against all odds, still a scuba viking. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Alta Loma, California | | *sigh*
some people just don't get it... crazy dirtbags...
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Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese It is never the duty of the oppressed to make a bigot feel comfortable. | |
01-24-2008, 08:11 PM
| | Beware the Jabberwock, my son! | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Charlotte,NC | | | This is proof positive that some people just need their asses beat. |
01-24-2008, 08:14 PM
| | Notes we play > Gear we play them on | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Wisconsin | | How disappointing. It's too bad that the fringe lunatics in Christianity tend to get all the press. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, or, in this case, the deluded and misguided wheels who are distorting the peaceful message of Jesus get national attention.
On a side note, why is Fox News quoting Wikipedia in a news article? That's pretty disturbing in its own right. Quote: |
The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies the church as a hate group and the organization is monitored by the Anti-Defamation League, according to its Wikipedia entry.
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01-24-2008, 08:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: NJ | | Quote:
Originally Posted by syciprider | Now in all honsety, other than the bombs, what makes them any different than Al Quada ? (sp?) These folks should be shunned by all religions, not just Christianity, which they claim to be part of. What is wrong with people these days ?  
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01-24-2008, 08:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: San Diego, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by buzzbass Now in all honsety, other than the bombs, what makes them any different than Al Quada ? (sp?) These folks should be shunned by all religions, not just Christianity, which they claim to be part of. What is wrong with people these days ? | From what I understand, the bulk of WBC is just the Phelps family...it's just some crazy patriarchal group moreso than an actual church of any sort
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01-24-2008, 08:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Florida | | | Going to hell?? for acting?? geeesh leave the family alone and let them mourn.. or you'll go to hell!!
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01-24-2008, 08:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lakeland, FL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by buzzbass These folks should be shunned by all religions, not just Christianity, which they claim to be part of. What is wrong with people these days ? |
I'm pretty sure they are  They don't get very many supporters outside their core group of whackos. |
01-24-2008, 08:32 PM
|  | I'm a tumbler, born under punches | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California | | Well, the Respect For America's Fallen Heroes Act (signed in 2006) has thankfully banned protests within 300 feet of a soldier's funeral.
Now these wackos need some other target. It's disgusting. |
01-24-2008, 08:49 PM
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...fringe lunatics in Christianity...
| Okay...now THAT has GOT to be some sort of oxymoron!!  |
01-24-2008, 08:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | | Freedom of speech... some people just shouldnt have it.
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01-24-2008, 08:59 PM
| | ????????????? | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Lexington KY | | | Good for them. You got to give people credit for sticking to their beliefs--especially when they're bats@#t crazy.
Seriously, better these people are allowed to scurry around protesting in the open than hold up in some shack somewhere mailing letterbombs to "sinners."
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01-24-2008, 09:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Bos, MA | | | what if fred phelps were actually making people less homophobic?
that would be awesome.
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