Tag Archives: Westboro

(Via – Towleroad)

Iraq war veteran and double-amputee Ryan Newell has been released from jail in Topeka, Kansas after police arrested him last week for stalking members of the Westboro Baptist Church in a car laden with several guns and almost 100 rounds of ammo. Ryan Newell, 26, of Marion, had been held on $500,000 bond since his arrest last week after Sedgwick …

An 26 year-old veteran who lost both his legs in Iraq has been charged with stalking members of the Westboro Baptist Church after police found him following the Westboro family van in a car stocked with handguns, a rifle, and dozens of rounds of ammunition. Sedgwick County sheriff’s detectives arrested Newell mid-morning Tuesday in the Wichita City Hall parking lot …

Members of Westboro Baptist Church returned to their minivan to find its tires slashed after their picket of the funeral of a McAlester, Oklahoma soldier. And every shop in town refused to make any repairs. As their minivan slowly hobbled away on two flat tires, with a McAlester police car following behind, the protesters were unable to find anyone in …

Bilerico has Westboro’s press release: “WBC to picket at Midland High School where the children are experiencing first-hand the power of the dog and the Fag Media, as well as the dismantling of the First Amendment. Coward Clint McCance said some scripturally-accurate things about sodomites commiting suicide on his FaceBook account, but then apologized and resigned on CNN Anderson Cooper’s …

On sale here. (Tipped by JMG reader Steve)

Clearly taking their cue from the Westboro Baptist Church, Texas NBC station KETK wants its viewers to weigh in on the question, “Do you think this country’s acceptance of homosexuality could lead to its downfall?” SRSLY. Unfuckingbelievable. Who’s got the right email at NBC Universal? UPDATE: I’ve moved their clip to YouTube. The unbridled hatred is staggering for a supposedly …

At Westboro Baptist Church’s picket outside a synagogue in Brooklyn yesterday, NY Assemblyman Dov Hikind lunged through the barricades to shove Shirley Phelps-Roper. She says she will not press charges. FYI, Hikind is a completely deranged anti-gay asshat, so you might want to hold your applause.

Good As You has an email from Shirley Phelps about her time before the Court yesterday. It begins: I am floating home on a cloud of euphoria. We got to tell the conscience of Doomed america that if they would stop with the proud sin the soldiers would stop dying. Alito was a serious disappointment. I don’t know why I …

The Westboro Baptist Church picketed the White House yesterday in advance of their appearance before the Supreme Court today where the father of a slain U.S. Marine is asking that his $5M judgment against the Phelps family be reinstated. Albert Snyder, of York, Pa., took legal action after church members picketed the funeral of his son. “My son and the …

Having already predicted on Twitter that Pastor Terry Jones “would cave under pressure,” the Westboro Baptist Church vows that they’ll conduct a Koran burning of their own. Jones has protested with the Phelps family in years past, but apparently earned their enmity since then. Probably because he got more publicity than they did.

Parody typically falls under fair use, but I’ve tipped off Sony Legacy Recordings, the administrators of Simon & Garfunkel’s catalog, just in case. (Via – Good As You)

A 61 year-old man tried to pepper-spray the members of the Westboro Baptist Church yesterday, but instead doused a nearby cop and counter-protesters. The Phelps clan was picketing the funeral of a soldier killed in Afghanistan. George Vogel was arrested Saturday morning a few blocks away from the First United Methodist Church, the location of Staff Sergeant Michael Bock’s funeral. …

(Tipped by JMG reader Phillip)

A federal judge in Missouri ruled yesterday that a ban on political protests near funerals is unconstitutional. In 2006 Missouri legislators passed the ban in an attempt to thwart the Westboro Baptist Church. The primary state law had barred protests near any church, cemetery or funeral establishment from an hour before until an hour after any funeral ceremony, procession or …

Westboro Baptist Church picketed this year’s Comic-Con, sending hundreds of dorks into ecstasy over the opportunity to wear even sillier outfits for a counter-protest. Lots more signs and silliness here. My favorite sign is above-right.

20/20 takes a look at the kids of the Westboro Baptist Church, including one daughter who has been cast out after rejecting their hate. Watch this.

Almost all of the states have signed onto an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, asking that military funerals be protected from the likes of the Phelps clan. Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia have submitted a brief to the Supreme Court in support of a father who sued anti-gay protesters over their demonstration at the 2006 funeral of …

Mississippi teen Constance McMillen graduated from high school this weekend as Westboro Baptist Church picketed nearby. GetEQUAL sent a contingent to counter-protest. As part of Harvey Milk Day on Saturday, Get Equal traveled to the South with its Mississippi Dignity Caravan, whose activities began with a rally at the Mississippi state capitol in Jackson. The group then traveled to Fulton, …

Westboro Baptist Church has announced on their website (NFSW) that they will be picketing the graduation ceremony of Constance McMillen’s high school in Mississippi. WBC will picket the graduation of Itawamba Agricultural High School to remind the parents, teachers and students of this nation that God said “Thou shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind, it is abomination.” Leviticus …