Hey Phelps, let's get with the program, okay?

The BBQ Pit
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I admit it. I’m a frequent visitor to godhatesfags.com. I find Phelps’ Adobe Acrobat rants amusing. I’m not even offended by him anymore, as I can’t take him seriously after seeing his “memorial” to Matthew Shepard (picture Matt’s head in a small animated .gif of a flame with “AUUUUUGH FOR GOD’S SAKES LISTEN TO FRED PHELPS!!!” playing in the background). But now he has gone too far.

A few weeks ago, I went to his website. It took a while to load. I mean, a long time. Longer than this board. Longer than all three Lord of the Rings movies watched together. Longer than the time it would take to ride a moped to Alpha Centari and back. Finally, aftr listening to a few dozen Depeche Mode songs, I see the big fat graphic saying “GOD HATES FAGS” has loaded. After another 6 hours, the site loads. Of course, nothing new is up there.

But yesterday was it. Now it just gives me Opera’s equivalent of a 404 error. I think Phelps is having some server problems. Or he’s not updating. If not, WHY? There’s plenty of religion-oriented events for you to rant about. That pedophile priest who got killed, the 10 Commandments thing in Alabama, etc. Surely you have an opinion on these things. I just want to hear more sentences like your infamous “Any other interpretation of the tragic events is rank atheism and fagjunk theology supported by sodomite propagandists”. A site I get a laugh out of is down.

Oh well, as long as rotten and Something Awful don’t go down…

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There doesn’t appear to be any definite news here: link.

I still want to know why people visit that website frequently, however. 1-2 times a year is more than enough to satisfy my appetite for shrieking assholes.

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“Shrieking assholes:” I’m picturing a demagogic version of the Singing Assholes from Zero Patience.

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Here’s my rationale: Bandwidth costs money. Visits to Godhatesfags.com consume part of Westboro Baptist Church’s budget. I like to think that the vast majority of those microexpenditures merely allow people to point and laugh, rather than to spread his particular flavour of lunacy any further.

I’m sure ol’ Fred thinks of his crusade in terms of the book of Mark:

Whenever I visit godhatesfags, I look at all the pictures, and download all the .pdfs. Then I clear my cache and do it again. I’m thinking, “Fred, you ol’ sod, may the road rise to meet you.”