Yep, our friend Fred, is making yet another pilgrimage to my great state, and he has a hard-on for ruining Easter for a church in the Washington town of Ellensburg where the Rev. Karen Dammann last served.
Here’s what the AP will report in tomorrow’s papers:
ELLENSBURG, Wash. — Picketers from the Kansas-based radical anti-gay group Westboro Baptist Church plan to stage a protest on Easter Sunday outside the First United Methodist Church in Ellensburg, the most recent church of lesbian pastor Karen Dammann.
The group, led by the Rev. Fred Phelps, is the same one that protested the Central Washington University production of “The Laramie Project” in February 2003. Phelps “may be America’s most vitriolic fountain of anti-homosexual hate,” according to a file kept on his group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that keeps tabs on hate groups.
The announcement of the protest comes on the heels of a verdict in a church trial last week that acquitted Dammann of practices incompatible with Christian teachings and reinstated her as a pastor in good standing. Dammann said she’s not sure whether she’ll be in Ellensburg on Easter, April 11.
“That’s one group that doesn’t act in a very Christian manner,” she said in a telephone interview. “It’s kind of a mystery to me where they find the mandate for their behavior. It certainly isn’t the Gospel of Christ.”
Fred, listen up, this isn’t your church, and I don’t think you even worship the same God as these people. So please, find a nice tall cross and three of the rustiest nails you can find and have one of your followers fly your fetid soul over some other city.
Jesus hated queers. Its a biblical fact! The Bible says Jesus loved and forgave harlots, centurions, lepers, tax collectors, Pharisees (Aramaic for “Republican”), nudists, and drunks. All of these loathesome and vile people, The Boss accepted into His heart.
Do you see “gays” on that list? Nosir! What could be clearer than that!
My sympathies to the congregation. My own sees the WBC about three Sundays out of five, I would say. Living in Topeka gives us that “opportunity” Want to know what it’s like to explain to your Sunday School kids(2nd and 3rd graders) when they mention having seen those awful signs?
I can’t even imagine. We’ve discussed him a few times in the high school Sunday school class I teach, but I don’t bother any more. Kind of like a Biology teacher probably doesn’t bother to teach where bears take a dump.
Ya know, ever since seeing the God Hates Shrimp parody site, I have been thinking about the next time ol’ Phelpsy-Boy comes to town organizing a counter-protest.
I’m thinking:
God Hates Shrimp t-shirts
God Hates Shrimp placards
God Hates Shrimp pamphlets to hand out with the appropriate biblical verses and on the back, in small letters, a declaration of how absurd this whole thing is. Written with brilliant wit, of course that means someone other than me!
If you can get together a good 20 people and post them across from the God Hates Fags folks and have them be as, or greater, obnoxious, you’d steal every bit of their thunder. Who knows, someone may actually learn something too. Not the Phelps Brigade but bystanders.
I’ll jump on any bandwagon who is flaming that felchwit and his abused, extended family he calls a congregation.
My own church is a reconciling in Christ congregation. That means we accept all believers regardless of sexual or gender identity or living arrangement. A good portion, up to 50%, is gay or lesbian. One is a lesbian minister though she isn’t the pastor of our congregation. They are all my brothers and sisters in Christ and I stand with them against such intolerance.
