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thepeel
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 Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:56 pm Post subject: Westboro Baptist Church to Picket Heath Ledger's Funeral |
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Cause he played a gay dude.
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A radical Baptist church in Kansas known for picketing the funerals of soldiers who perished in Iraq said it intends to protest Heath Ledger's memorial service with signs claiming the actor died and is in Hell because he played a gay character in �Brokeback Mountain.�
Shirley Phelps-Roper of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka said that she and other members will picket Ledger�s United States memorial services, not those held in his native Australia.
�You cannot live in defiance of God,� she said. �He got on that big screen with a big, fat message: God is a liar and it�s OK to be gay.�
A press release circulated by the church references Leviticus 18:22 in the Bible, which states that �thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.�
�Heath Ledger is now in Hell, and has begun serving his eternal sentence there,� the Westboro Baptist announcement says.
Started 1955, the Topeka, Kan.-based church has conducted over 34,000 peaceful demonstrations opposing the homosexual lifestyle, according to their Web site, GodHatesFags.com.
The organization runs various Web sites, including GodHatesAmerica.com and others that condemn lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, Muslims, Roman Catholics and Jews as well as certain nationalities, according to Wikipedia. |
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,324966,00.html |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Closeted homosexuality can make people do strange things. |
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nicholas_chiasson
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| Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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| How do they know he is in hell? Maybe he wrote his name on one of those little Jesus cards that come with Chick's tracks and was saved...and then OD on sleeping pills. |
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RACETRAITOR
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:06 am Post subject: |
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Maybe Fred Phelps knows Ledger is gay because he hired him as an escort after watching Brokeback Mountain.
(Any opportunity to expose these self-hating homophobes for what they are.) |
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Dome Vans
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:52 am Post subject: |
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It's dumb stuff like this that makes me despise the media for it's existence. Why do we want to know about this pitiful group of idiots and them spewing their guts out about this? Would Al-Qaeda be the force it is without it's manipulation of the media? Would America and Britain be living in fear if it wasn't for the media, from whatever they want to tell us we should be "afraid" of? Awful rubbish, and to think Media studies at uni is seen as a cop out degree...............
Rant over. |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:08 am Post subject: |
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The churches zip code is 66604.
I wonder if IGTG can help us figure out the larger story? |
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fiveeagles
Joined: 19 May 2005
Location: Vancouver
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:20 am Post subject: Re: Westboro Baptist Church to Picket Heath Ledger's Funeral |
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Cause he played a gay dude.
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A radical Baptist church in Kansas known for picketing the funerals of soldiers who perished in Iraq said it intends to protest Heath Ledger's memorial service with signs claiming the actor died and is in Hell because he played a gay character in �Brokeback Mountain.�
Shirley Phelps-Roper of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka said that she and other members will picket Ledger�s United States memorial services, not those held in his native Australia.
�You cannot live in defiance of God,� she said. �He got on that big screen with a big, fat message: God is a liar and it�s OK to be gay.�
A press release circulated by the church references Leviticus 18:22 in the Bible, which states that �thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.�
�Heath Ledger is now in Hell, and has begun serving his eternal sentence there,� the Westboro Baptist announcement says.
Started 1955, the Topeka, Kan.-based church has conducted over 34,000 peaceful demonstrations opposing the homosexual lifestyle, according to their Web site, GodHatesFags.com.
The organization runs various Web sites, including GodHatesAmerica.com and others that condemn lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, Muslims, Roman Catholics and Jews as well as certain nationalities, according to Wikipedia. |
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,324966,00.html |
Christians pave the way to hell. |
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Justin Hale
Joined: 24 Nov 2007
Location: the Straight Talk Express
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 2:36 am Post subject: |
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I'm not generally in favor of capital punishment, but with the WBC there's no question at all that they should be killed by the Federal Govt. Free speech? Screw it, kill them. So openly taking delight in the suffering of others for ideological purposes should be a crime and the punishment - in extreme circumstances such as the WBC subhumans - death.
I'd love to hear what the legions of Christian hagwon jockeys have to say about the WBC, taking as they do a literal interpretation of the book. 
Hopefully, since they've announced they're to show up, someone will externimate those parasites at the funeral and do the universe a massive favor in the process. Maybe not though - atheists LOVE the WBC! |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:19 am Post subject: |
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| I don't believe in Hell... but I do hope the spike-covered thrones they have waiting for them there are sized to fit. |
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stevieg4ever
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Location: London, England
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:38 am Post subject: |
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i read about these twerps yesterday night how they celebrated in the suffering caused by 9/11, the london terror attacks, the tsunami and other such events. I dont understand how they can survive in a country like the states with these kinds of views.
they seem to exist solely for the reason of spreading hate. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 4:07 am Post subject: |
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| WBC are merely christians who have read their bibles a lil closer than the rest. |
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Kimchieyescream
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:15 am Post subject: |
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While WBC is hate-filled and misguided, they have a right in the USA to free speech. Many people argue this, but these situations are necessary evils in order to preserve free speech and opinion.
They shouldn't be executed or attacked. They should be countered with more free speech, rational speech. |
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rD.NaTas
Joined: 06 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:17 am Post subject: |
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| Bibbitybop wrote: |
While WBC is hate-filled and misguided, they have a right in the USA to free speech. Many people argue this, but these situations are necessary evils in order to preserve free speech and opinion.
They shouldn't be executed or attacked. They should be countered with more free speech, rational speech. |
have you seen the videos of there protests , there is not a sane thought in there misguided little brains.. and is not protesting a "private" funeral harassment and totally voiding the family and friends rights to not having to witness these cowards and rejects |
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Dome Vans
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:40 am Post subject: |
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| Bibbitybop wrote: |
While WBC is hate-filled and misguided, they have a right in the USA to free speech. Many people argue this, but these situations are necessary evils in order to preserve free speech and opinion.
They shouldn't be executed or attacked. They should be countered with more free speech, rational speech. |
Unfortunately "religion" does not listen to rational speech. The whole kaboodle is based on an entity that cannot be proved or disproved. Different groups believe in different bits of the "great book". They are using the media in the same way everyone else does. Appealing to the lowest common denominator. "Paris Hilton says Britney is a good mum" Who gives a sh*t? They can both die horribly from what I care. Even then there'll be more to replace them. |
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