Last night Joy Behar spoke to Fred Phelps’ estranged son about Westboro and Elizabeth Taylor.
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Elizabeth Taylor’s Funeral Is Today
Perhaps to thwart the Westboro Baptist Church, who yesterday vowed to picket her funeral, Elizabeth Taylor will be buried today at the famed Forest Lawn Memorial Park, the final resting place of many Hollywood stars. I just checked the Twitter feed of Margie Phelps, who doesn’t yet seem to be aware of the speedy service. Story developing… UPDATE: E! Online …
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Westboro Baptist: Still Hacked?
JMG reader Thomas writes to observe that the websites of Westboro Baptist Church still appear to be offline more than three weeks after the live hacking done by Anonymous during a joint interview with Shirley Phelps.
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Father Of Slain Soldier Predicts Gunfire At Future Westboro Baptist Pickets
Bereaved father Albert Snyder, who lost his Supreme Court battle with Westboro Baptist Church earlier this week, says that somebody is inevitably going to open fire on the Phelps family. “Something is going to happen,” Albert Snyder told CNN Thursday. “Somebody is going to get hurt.” “You have too many soldiers and Marines coming back with post-traumatic stress syndrome, and …
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Quote Of The Day – Maggie Gallagher
“The fringe cult calling itself Westboro Baptist (a small congregation consisting of close, and possibly incestuous, relatives of Fred Phelps, who calls himself a pastor) first became famous by protesting gay rights events with revolting signs suggesting that God hates gay people. (They used another offensive terms as well). These ugly signs proved irresistible to reporters from the New York …
Read More »HomoQuotable – Jim Burroway
“This [Westboro] ruling is important for many reasons. First and foremost, it preserves the primacy of free speech in America, which benefits us all. But from a parochial pro-LGBT narrative, it’s equally important to note that it proves the lie to the multiple instances when anti-gay activists falsely claimed that advances in LGBT equality and protections — whether they come …
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Supreme Court OK’s Westboro Protests
The Supreme Court today ruled 8-1 to overturn a $5M judgment against Westboro Baptist Church, saying that the First Amendment protects their right to picket the funerals of military members. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote: “Speech is powerful. It can stir people to action, move them to tears of both joy and sorrow, and– as it did here– inflict great …
Read More »Westboro Screen Shot
Westboro’s sites are down again at the moment, but the above is a screen shot captured earlier and sent to me by a purported member of 4chan. Embiggen the image or hit the above link to read the message claiming to be from Anonymous. UPDATE: On today’s David Pakman Show, a purported member of Anonymous and Westboro’s Shirley Phelps-Roper butt …
Read More »Westboro’s Site Crashes, Shirley Phelps Denies Anonymous Involvement
Yesterday a letter purporting to be from Anonymous hackers claimed that the original threat against Westboro was a hoax and not from them. However God Hates Fags has been down all day today. In the clip below, radio host David Pakman talks to Westboro’s Shirley Phelps.
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Hackers Group Warns Westboro Baptist:
You Will Face Our Vicious Retaliation
The mysterious hackers group Anonymous, best known so far for their campaign against the Church of Scientology, has issued a stark warning to the Westboro Baptist Church. We, the collective super-consciousness known as ANONYMOUS – the Voice of Free Speech & the Advocate of the People – have long heard you issue your venomous statements of hatred, and we have …
Read More »Photo Of The Day – Inside Westboro
From Life’s photo essay, Inside The Westboro Baptist Church. (Tipped by JMG reader Andi)
Read More »GLAAD Angry About Westboro Radio Deal
The Westboro Baptist Church has agreed not to picket the funeral of the federal judge murdered in Saturday’s massacre in Arizona. In return, a nationally syndicated radio show will give Westboro airtime to broadcast their repulsive message. GLAAD wants the deal called off. This week Westboro has reacted to the tragedy in Tucson with messages like “God Sent the Shooter.” …
Read More »ARIZONA: Activists Work To Shield Funeral Attendees From Westboro Protests
Predictable
Afternoon View – Key West Phelpsian
Even in the paradise of Key West, whose city motto is “One Human Family,” one cannot escape Christianist hatred, as discovered by Father Tony and his husband, who ran across this idiot standing on the city side of the final bridge to the island. Does anybody know if he’s actually part of Westboro? Or is he just a local loon? …
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