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Westboro Baptist Church : 21st Century Nazis

Interesting this has been brought up
i have been watching documentaries and interviews about them all day

Funny thing one, Shirley phelps could not answer when an interviewer brought up her illegitimate child born out of Wedlock..

They make me physically sick, im so glad they are banned from entry to the UK

why couldn't the ATF and FBI go for these morons instead of the Branch Davidians :sad:

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Originally Posted by Munchkins (Post 5295123)

I find them fascinating. I've been watching videos the last couple of days.

They're hypocrisy knows no bounds! Shirley's father was even convicted of perjury on top her bastard child. Of course, they ignore that 'sin' too.

They're not even worth getting annoyed over, they're beyond stupid.

There's hardly any of them is there? And loads are leaving. I'm suprised they get this much media attention.

Media should stop giving them the limelight and they'd stop..bet they've made alot of money out of it

Horrible people

The funny thing about them is that the mother in charge is actually a civil rights lawyer who is staunchly anti-racist. And they are fiercly against the military. So they are a weird combination of extreme left wing and extreme right wing views.

They really can't be classified, they are a whole different breed of stupid.

It's more like a cult than a political ideology really.

but at least they arn't violent, i will give them that, they seem to only be interested in their freedom of speech, and don't advocate any violence unlike many other extremist groups.

I often wonder and think when people fight so hard against something, it's possibly because they have deep routed emotional connections with that thing they are fighting against.

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Originally Posted by InOne (Post 5295177)

There's hardly any of them is there? And loads are leaving. I'm suprised they get this much media attention.

It's not the quantity, it's what they're doing.

Picketing dead soldier's funerals and picketing for the eradication of homosexuality is bound to garner media attention whether there's 40 or 40,000 of them.

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Originally Posted by BBfan46 (Post 5296676)

it does matter in a way though. how many people have they killed? how many people have they been violent against?

As far as i know it's ZERO. so they arn't hurting anyone.

I think the media are just focusing on them for sensationalist value, the fact is they arn't hurting anyone, so why is the media focusing so much on them?

All of their power comes from the media, they would be nothing without attention. The media should ignore them and they would have no power.

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Originally Posted by lostalex (Post 5296685)

it does matter in a way though. how many people have they killed? how many people have they been violent against?

As far as i know it's ZERO. so they arn't hurting anyone.

I think the media are just focusing on them for sensationalist value, the fact is they arn't hurting anyone, so why is the media focusing so much on them?

All of their power comes from the media, they would be nothing without attention. The media should ignore them and they would have no power.

Maybe not physically.

But they cause great emotional distress to the families of dead soliders, LGBT groups and the general public.

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Originally Posted by BBfan46 (Post 5296755)

Maybe not physically.

But they cause great emotional distress to the families of dead soliders, LGBT groups and the general public.

well i certainly agree, but when i say hurt i meant like maimed and killed though...

It's important to keep things in perspective, that's all i meant.

When you think of all the Muslim religious extremists blowing themselves up and killing loads of people everyday, it makes these guys looks pretty small, that's all i'm saying.

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Originally Posted by Shaun (Post 5295132)

why couldn't the ATF and FBI go for these morons instead of the Branch Davidians :sad:

What you want a Bloodbath?

Cause it's called free speech in America. And Besides It's fun to point and laugh

They honestly make me so angry. Free speech is one thing, the offensive and ignorant hate speech they spout is another thing entirely.

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Originally Posted by Niall (Post 5303285)

They honestly make me so angry. Free speech is one thing, the offensive and ignorant hate speech they spout is another thing entirely.

Definitely.

They are just hate-filled bullies using religion to justify their awful behaviour.

Have to admit I found this amusing...

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This past Sunday, July 14, top officials from the New York-based Satanic Temple traveled to the grave site of the mother of Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps in order to stage a formal ceremony celebrating same-sex unions. Photos of the ceremony are publicly available on the new Satanic Temple-operated website, www.westboro-baptists.com, where The Satanic Temple encourages other same-sex couples to submit their own photos from similar pilgrimages to the Mississippi cemetery.

Satanic Temple spokesperson Lucien Greaves officiated the ceremony while two same-sex couples celebrated their homosexuality at the gravesite.

The Satanic Temple supports freedom and the pursuit of happiness for all people, thus they support same-sex couples’ legal equality. The Satanic Temple claims that the mass was conducted as an affirmation of those values, and claims that the action is meant to convey a message of love in the face of hate.

The Westboro Baptists, famed for their bombastic "God Hates Fags" anti-homosexual activism, raised the ire of the Satanic Temple months previous. "The idea for the Pink Mass ceremony and website came during the aftermath of the tragic Boston Marathon bombings, during which time the WBC were threatening to protest the funerals of the bombing victims," explains Greaves. “Members of The Satanic Temple were in Boston, waiting for them, but they failed to show. Later, the WBC issued a statement that they had been present 'in spirit'. We decided that a same-sex couple celebrating ceremony at the grave-site of Fred Phelps's mother was an appropriate way to meet the Westboro Baptists, 'in spirit', but this time on our terms."

Explaining the ceremony itself, Greaves continues, "The Satanic Temple now believes that Fred Phelps must believe that his mother is now gay, in the afterlife, due to our Pink Mass... And nobody can challenge our right to our beliefs."

This revelation of The Satanic Temple's graveyard ritual comes fast on the tail of the Westboro Baptist Church’s announcement that they intend to picket the death of 31 year-old "Glee" actor, Cory Monteith.

The Satanic Temple is hoping their recent action will draw attention to the organization's efforts to raise funds so that they may participate in the New York City Department of Transportation's Adopt-a-Highway program. More information on the campaign can be found at this location.

Spectacle Films was present at the ceremony to document the event for an upcoming film about the Satanic Temple.

meh, theyre over hyped, theyre just religious, let the crazies be crazy.