Religious Right Group Wretchedly Wrong
By Josh Matlock
Fri, 02/02/2007 - 3:28pm
In the small north Texas dairy town of Windthorst, population 440, one of their treasured and beloved sons recently fell victim to an IED attack in Iraq. The death of 21 year old Marine Sgt. Gary Johnston shook this small community to its core. It's a tragedy that has spread beyond family, friends, and community. The entire immediate region suffers the loss.
Yet, during this time of grieving, morning, honoring, and remembrance, a wretched religious right group from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas is planning to descend upon a family and community's sacred ceremony and stage a protest.
Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church have made a habit out of protesting at funerals for soldiers - the protests are usually about how America is being punished for its wickedness. They wave signs that say "God Hates Fags" and "God Hates America" while communities honor their dead.
Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church may find that small town farm boys don't take too kindly to such antics. Local law enforcement officials know this as well and are planning to provide stepped up security to keep the situation from devolving into a country ass-whoopin'.
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Though I've never considered
By Josh Miller
Sat, 02/03/2007 - 6:45pm
Though I've never considered myself a country farm boy, I might be inclined to do a little country ass whoopin'. Anyone up for a road trip?
I Don't Believe In Hell, Except For Fred Phelps
By Patrick M McLeod
Sat, 02/03/2007 - 9:09pm
I've seen them in action here in Denton (at UNT when "The Laramie Project" was here) and at a funeral in Kansas.
It really is only a matter of time before someone shoots these miserable spares, and I think if they insist on protesting funerals in small Southern towns with their cherry-picked Old Testament browbeating, those shootings are going to be sooner rather than later.
Dateline did a segment on them last year where you saw their hatred in all its glory. Fred Phelps, who thankfully looks like he's got both feet in the grave and is descending fast, ripped into Stone Phillips at one of these protests (where they Phillips was trying to interview him) with the Christian fundamentalist's favorite line of attack, a spittle-flecked tirade about how Phillips was "acting Jewish."
Phelps is after Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert now, too.