Take That, Westboro Baptist Church

[rclouse 0]

Phelps believes American deaths in Iraq are divine punishment for a country that he says harbors homosexuals. His protesters carry signs thanking God for so-called IEDs -- explosives that are a major killer of soldiers in Iraq.

Wow... what a nutcase.

You don't know the half of it. Read Phelps' wiki entry, if you have the stomach for it.

[Kassie 0]

My mom was Cherokee Indian... and she taught us that we should respect God's place... planet earth, and it's inhabitants... and that we should also respect other people's thoughts and ideas, and religions... even when they don't agree with us... The most beautiful thing is that God gives us a choice...

I completely agree. And I love how you put that Now...if only the sick people like Phelps good see things that way...

You don't know the half of it. Read Phelps' wiki entry, if you have the stomach for it.

This is truly disgusting. "Phelps rose to national prominence in 1998 when he and congregants from Westboro picketed the funeral of gay murder victim Matthew Shepard, delivering an obscenity laden sermon (with focus given to graphic descriptions of homosexual sex acts) informing the mourners that Shephard had gone to hell and that everyone in attendance would join him there."...I mean...REALLY?? When did God appoint him to make such decisions?? Can you imagine being his family and friends, not only mourning the death of someone, but how they died as well, and then you've got jerks like this there while you're saying your last goodbyes!

"In his graduation-year yearbook, his classmates predicted that he would end up as a professional boxer. Ironically, his boxing ability would become the subject of one of his most infamous quotes, when he would later advocate spousal abuse as being Biblical." Oh my goodness...this guys is just SUCH a catch! The list just goes on and on!

Ok, I'm sorry guys I said I would get on my soapbox, but I did....not too bad though...I think

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

man that Phelps guy is disgusting...

Damn, why don't a guy like that ever get locked up? I'm sure he'd be someone's b!tch in no time...

[rebeccajo 14]

I often wonder how homophobes would feel if all of a sudden, a member of their family turned up with AIDS.

Would their love for that person be immediately extinguished? Would they condemn them, turn their back on them? Kill them even? When they saw their loved one lay dying from a monstrosity of a disease, would they say that was God's punishment, and that they, the entire family, were also doomed?

Or would they be able to recognize the true hand of the devil at work?

I wonder.

Edited February 22, 2006 by rebeccajo