http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0337/divito.php
Heard it on Stern this morning. Fred Phelps is protesting the gay school. Sigh. Kinda funny and yet saddening.
He’s been to NYC several times, a few times to protest the FDNY after 9/11, calling them a “fag fire department”.
Off topic, but has anyone been able to get to godhatesfags.com lately?
There we go. The odd part was that the protesters were showing the kids more… explicit… descriptions and photos than you’d normally get. Ah, well, hypocracy. No big news.
http://www.marksfriggin.com/news.htm#tue
Howard Plays Tape Of Gay High School Protesters. 9/9/03. 9:15am
Tonight on E! they have Beetlejuice proposing to Babyjuice. Howard said that everyone has been wondering when that episode was going to air.
Howard brought up this gay high school that has started in the city. A bunch of people were protesting the gay high school and a lot of them were from out of town. Will from the back office went out to the protest and asked some questions. A lot of people brought their kids down with them. Will interviewed one 8 year old kid who was brought down there by his parents. The kid said he was there protesting ‘‘fags’’ and he doesn’t like them because ‘‘they spit in the face of God.’’ His parents were coaching him the whole time because he couldn’t come up with answers for all of the questions. Howard said the kid will probably grow up completely angry and may be forced to date women even if he likes dudes. Robin said that kid is the reason they need that gay high school. In another interview a 10 year old kid talks about why they’re protesting the ‘‘fags’’ and how it’s an abomination to do that stuff. He quoted the bible and said that it’s an abomination to ‘‘do that.’’ Pretty intense stuff coming from a 10 year old kid.
Will also interviewed some of the older people there. They’re even angrier than the kids he interviewed. One guy was complaining about the ‘‘fags’’ and how the country is ‘’…going to hell in a fag handbasket.’’ He was quoting the bible as well and saying that fags are not ‘‘gay’’ because they’re the most miserable people around.
Gary came in and said that Will told him that the 8 year old kid was holding up a sign showing a couple of gay guys having sex and saying how evil it was. All Howard could say after listening to this stuff was ‘‘Wow!’’
Darn, I wish I’d known he was coming—he could have joined us at my place last weekend! I think he really would’ve enjoyed the Bert Savoy tapes . . .
Just curious, why was that? Because they rescue gay people, too?
Probably for the same reason he called the US Navy “a bunch of fag sailors” when some terrorists blew a big hole in the USS Cole. (I.e., he’s a fucking psycho.)
There’s a thread in MPSIMS about the website being down.
If Phred is as anti-gay as he purports to be, how in the world is he going to survive NYC without going apoplectic? I mean, it may well be that openly gay folk walk the streets in his corner of Kansas, but NYC is friggin’ teeming with gay, bi, tg, ts, etc. folk. His head’ll fucking pop protesting all the abominations unto God walking the street!
Oh, they are used to it. They’ve even been to San Francisco, when they picketed the funeral of Randy Shilts. For all of about forty-five seconds.
Revtim, Father Mychal Judge, the Fire Department chaplain who died in 9/11, was gay.
Good god, who HASN’T this guy picketed?
For godsakes, he picketed freaking MISTER ROGER’S MEMORIAL SERVICE!!! Here in Pittsburgh.
I’d say he’s jumped the shark, wouldn’t you?
Hey, Freddy-stick a fork in, it’s done. You’re no longer offensive*, you’re just a sad, pathetic joke.
shaking head
*well, he IS, but I don’t think anyone takes him seriously
Just as a bit of a mirror image kind of analogy, we’ve got a similar wanker down here called “The Rev. Fred Nile” - no shit, same first name and everything. And the exact same agenda as well. He pulls the exact same low blows and then turns on the super sweet sickly goody two shoes smile when something he approves of comes into camera range.
What can I say? Except, obviously, there’s a common vein of hysteria and latent fear that these idiots like to tap into. Ultimately, the only solution is not to give them any attention at all because attention, and the belief that what they’re doing might be having an effect somewhere, is what drives them I rather think.