I think they lost any claim to coherence when they protested the funerals of the victims of the Sago mine disaster. I work with Appalachian coal miners every single day, and as a group they’re only slightly more “fag-enabling” than the Taliban.
Wait until they end up picketing themselves for not picketing enough funerals of homosexuals. That’ll make your head ass-plode.
I phigured. Phucking stupid if you ask me.
It’s a phag thing, you wouldn’t understand.
It’s Bernie Mac’s funeral… some of the personalities likely to be attending are not going to give two shits about an avalanche of lawsuits.
This might just be the last of these little events we hear of. I’m not sayin’, I’m just sayin’…
Which phar as I can tell nobody did.
Does anybody know the status of the Phelps’ verdict? Last I read was about a phailure to post bond. The old man famously doesn’t have a bank account or any assets in his name and the church sanctuary has various protections [though I’m not sure of what those are] and the family isn’t worth anywhere near the $5 million verdict, but I do wonder if there are any safeguards to keep them from fraudulently conveying real estate assets, or if every member of the church is liable or if it’s just the ones at the picketing.
It seems to this non-lawyer to be an interesting case, and one that might be up there with Falwell/Flynt both in going to the SCotUS and in its importance in free speech issues. Personally I don’t see picketing funerals as a matter of free speech but as a matter of invasion of privacy and harassment. (Feel free to say, write or distribute anything you like about them no matter how vile, but do it at a distance from grieving family.)
I can see it becoming a status symbol to be fought over. Kind of like the countries where the richer you were the more paid mourners you had. I wonder if they do gay weddings and if so do they have packages? (“Our basic ELEGANT ELOPEMENT is $400 per day plus travel expenses and that will get you two lesser known grandchildren— you can choose your own signs, they’re listed here from ABOMINATION up to ZYGOTES CAN’T LIVE IN SHIT… and from there it’s up to the Soap Opera Extravaganza Package where we fly Papa Phred himself and Shirley and the Westboro Children’s Chorus will sing “Burn in Hell Fags, Hellish Fire” to the tune of “I Love You Truly”- we don’t throw rice though because it makes birds pop. That starts at $6,000 plus two first class seats and 12 coach, it’s all here in on our rider…”)
Phreakin’ Phags! God love em!
Phuck phelps! Philthy phucker!
Which reminds me, What ever happened to the Phreak brothers?
That Phineas guy, What a pistol he was. 
They protested Issac Hayes funeral and memorial service. Hayes was most certainly not gay. He had 12 kids.
Wasn’t he a Scientologist?
He was teh Evil !!!11!!
Wait, Bernie Mac died? huh. Some news can’t be kept outta the far east, and other news…
And is (indirectly?) responsible for more heterosexual lovin’ than almost anybody who ever lived.
Yes, but according to the WBC, if you don’t use your celebrity by denouncing faggots 24/7, you are a fag-enabler and they will picket your funeral.
Shirley Phelps-Roper has to have had a son out of wedlock whose parentage may be incestuous. People who interview her have found out that she goes ballistic and makes a total ass of herself when they bring him up. Fuckin’ hypocrit.
They’ve got their god hating so many folks, it’s only a matter of time before Fred Phelps is shivering, alone in a room with a shotgun, sure that he’s the only person left on Earth worthy of His love.
You got it.
And more seriously…
It’s sad. It’s like the serial killers whose fathers beat them, or the rapists whose fathers raped them. It doesn’t excuse their crimes, but it’s just another instance of someone whose life got so fucked up that nothing could save them.
After viewing that site, I am so going to rewrite West Side Story, with a male member of a “fag hating cult” falling in love with a male member of a gay rights’ group.
Hee, hee…two male members.
It appears to be. If you’re OK with purveying their hate-filled, barking spider voodoo-crazy mindgasms, visit the site on their t-shirts from the video- signmovies.net. It’s real, and there’s more :eek:
Strangely, according to his wiki entry, Phelps used to be a civil rights attorney (I knew he was a disbarred attorney, but not the civil rights aspect!).
Do you really think a group of male Broadway dancers could convincingly play a fag hating cult? And then there’s the fact half the old ladies in the audience would be whispering “Which one do you think is the Maria?” on their way to the restroom during intermission.
(I saw a professional production of WSS the other night and kept expecting two of the Jets and three of the Sharks to pop out glow sticks during the Rumble. A couple of them were beyond fine too…)