Tag Archives: Westboro

Blogger Jake Garland turned up the following: “NOTE: The Ku Klux Klan, LLC, has not or EVER will have ANY connection with the ‘Westboro Baptist Church.’ We absolutely repudiate their activities.” Uh, yay?

Nate Phelps fled his loony family years ago, but is telling the world about the horror of growing up Phelps.

This made me tear up a little. (Via – AmericaBlog)

After a judge ruled that the father of a dead soldier must pay Westboro Baptist Church their court costs for defending themselves against his suit for picketing his son’s funeral, Bill O’Reilly has announced that he would personally pay the judgment. O’Reilly: “I will pay Mr. Snyder’s obligation. I am not going to let this injustice stand.”

The father of the dead Marine whose funeral was picketed by the Westboro Baptist Church has been ordered to pay Fred Phelps’ court costs for defending the church from the father’s lawsuit. On Friday, Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ordered Snyder to pay $16,510 to Fred Phelps. Phelps is the leader of the Westboro Baptist Church, which conducted …

Protesters outnumbered an anti-gay hater by 500-1 at a scheduled Westboro picket of a high school performance of the Laramie Project in Louisiana. Westboro didn’t show. UPDATE: Here’s an amusing clip of the protesters getting ready for Westboro.

Westboro Baptist Church’s freedom of speech case is coming up in the Supreme Court. Tonight the pundits on Hardball discussed whether Westboro “should be shut down.”

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of the man who sued Westboro Baptist Church for picketing the funeral of his son. The Supreme Court will review whether anti-gay protests at funerals of American soldiers are protected by the First Amendment, taking up the appeal of a Maryland man who won and then had reversed a $10 million …

(Via – HRC Back Story)

You’ve got to click over the AKA William for Andrew Belonsky’s lengthy interview with everybody’s favorite performance artist, Megan Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church. A snippet: Same-sex marriage is a fait accompli in this nation. I remember taking a government class and they were talking about the full faith and credit clause of the constitution. If all these states …

Watch and enjoy as the Westboro contingent gets an uninvited addition to their protest outside of Twitter headquarters the Museum of Jewish Culture in San Francisco. I never heard of Phillip Huang before this, but I think I love him. Language very NSFW. (Tipped by JMG reader Larry)

On Friday the Westboro Baptist Church descended on the San Francisco headquarters of Twitter, because God hates social networking. Or something. The above photo from the exuberant counter-protest was sent in by JMG reader Craig. Go here for many more hilarious signs.

But the Phelps didn’t show. Via the University of Colorado’s Daily Camera: Hundreds of University of Colorado students gathered around the Dalton Trumbo Fountain on Monday night in a show of support for gay rights. The demonstration came before a same-sex marriage debate on the CU campus organized by the Aquinas Institute for Catholic Thought. “I want to promote love …

Westboro Baptist Church’s Megan Phelps-Roper doesn’t just think she looks like Lady Gaga, she actually does a not-terrible parody of Poker Face. (I totally LOL’d at the first “God hates you” aside.) Let’s give some holiday props to the clown circus that is the Phelps family, they help us in so many ways! (Via – Good As You)

Fierce! (Via – Oh No They Didn’t)

Everybody’s favorite Clowns For Jeebus will be picketing a Lady Gaga concert next month. Although there is “nothing new or different” about her. OK then. Also on the Westboro picket tour are stops at a couple of synagogues, Joel Osteen’s megachurch, and a hockey game in New Hampshire. Because hockey in the winter is “lazy and unimaginative.” They are seriously …

Westboro Baptist Church has posted a list of pickets planned for this weekend in Washington DC. Among their targets are a local synagogue, the HRC-Obama dinner, and the National Equality March. If you are attending any of these events, take care not to engage the Westboro nutters. They would love the national attention of any tiny incident and will sue …

On the same day that the Westboro Baptist Church staged an anti-Semitic rally in Brooklyn, a federal appeals court overturned a $5M judgment against them won by the father of a soldier whose funeral they had picketed. The judge ruled that even “distasteful and repugnant” speech is protected by the First Amendment. Last June a lien was placed on Westboro’s …

As I mentioned here on Monday, the students at Montpelier High School raised money for every minute that the Westboro nutters protested outside their school on the first day of legal same-sex marriages in Vermont. From their Facebook page: -Number of WBC members who protested outside MHS: 4-Number of legal same-sex marriages that took place today in Vermont: 5-Number of …

Wanna bet there’ll be a few MJ fans that go entirely apeshit on them? (Via – Good As You)