# The Thirty Best Anti-Westboro Baptist Church Signs **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 16, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thirty-best-anti-westboro-baptist-church-signs/574922 "2011-03-16T15:08:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thirty-best-anti-westboro-baptist-church-signs/574922/21 "2011-03-17T15:20:02Z")
The two doing the Kanye West meme were pretty awesome. ---
**Author:** ![FrancisCastle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b4bc9f/32.png) [@FrancisCastle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrancisCastle)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thirty-best-anti-westboro-baptist-church-signs/574922/22 "2011-03-17T15:27:41Z")
I had to google Shirley Phelp’s picture after seeing that first sign. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thirty-best-anti-westboro-baptist-church-signs/574922/23 "2011-03-17T15:33:24Z")
> [@FrancisCastle](#): > > I had to google Shirley Phelp’s picture after seeing that first sign. Are you now a homosexual? ---
**Author:** ![FrancisCastle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b4bc9f/32.png) [@FrancisCastle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrancisCastle)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thirty-best-anti-westboro-baptist-church-signs/574922/24 "2011-03-17T15:41:44Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Are you now a homosexual? Haha no. If I’m going to switch teams, I’d have to find a better looking girlfriend than her! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thirty-best-anti-westboro-baptist-church-signs/574922/25 "2011-03-17T15:56:14Z")
On the Phelps “Fag Church” sign, does the guy standing behind the other guy have a load in his pants, or what? Sure looks like it. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thirty-best-anti-westboro-baptist-church-signs/574922/26 "2011-03-17T19:29:59Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Nope! Every church but their’s is a fag church. I once saw a sign of theirs that said “Your minister must be a fag, he’s wearing a white dress!” Calling people they don’t like fags. Who’d have thought they’d have something in common with South Park? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thirty-best-anti-westboro-baptist-church-signs/574922/27 "2011-03-17T19:46:19Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > My favorite: Dog Loves Fags. Yes, but it’d be better if that particular beast didn’t look as though it was possessed by Satan. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thirty-best-anti-westboro-baptist-church-signs/574922/28 "2011-03-17T19:54:02Z")
I like the “Drink the Kool Aid Already!” sign for its simplicity. Though I do want an Anti-Christ Obama. I’ve got Malibu Obama and Ballet Obama and want to complete the collection. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thirty-best-anti-westboro-baptist-church-signs/574922/29 "2011-03-17T21:03:23Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > #16: Huh? “Fag Church”? Is this just a refreshing turn of honest self-description from the Phelpsians? > > And the recurring theme of “God is your enemy”… If that were true, then it shouldn’t seem so worrying that He hates us. > Personally, the sign I’d love to see is “God loves Fred Phelps”. More like…“The Infallible God is Really, Really, Reallllllllllyyyyy Trying Hard to Love Fred Phelps”. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thirty-best-anti-westboro-baptist-church-signs/574922/30 "2011-03-17T21:18:53Z")
If you had a sign that said “God Doesn’t Hate Anybody: To Do That You Have to Exist!” I wonder who would get more jeered. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thirty-best-anti-westboro-baptist-church-signs/574922/31 "2011-03-18T03:16:53Z")
HOLY COW- The Phelps chick in #25 is wearing a “Twilight” sweatshirt! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thirty-best-anti-westboro-baptist-church-signs/574922/32 "2011-03-18T04:23:22Z")
> [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](#): > > HOLY COW- The Phelps chick in #25 is wearing a “Twilight” sweatshirt! Doesn’t she know God Hates Fangs? I feel truly sorry for those kids. They’re the victims in all of this. Once the others like Shirley herself were and I suppose she still is but she’s too far gone; if she were a dog there’s nothing to do but put her to sleep at this stage of the illness. [Fred’s apostate son Nate discusses his childhood on Jane Velez Mitchell](http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2011/03/16/exp.jvm.nate.phelps.westboro.hln.html). He’s a born-again atheist and gives lectures on the church and on his religious progressions. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thirty-best-anti-westboro-baptist-church-signs/574922/33 "2011-03-18T04:49:20Z")
[Part 1](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW2JgPMQdVc)of a very long lecture by Nate Phelps. Very interesting. He discusses his father’s “X-Treme Calvinism” (he preaches predestination- gays are all going to hell and there’s absolutely nothing they can do about it, so his purpose isn’t trying to convert so much as just point it out) and the physical abuse and his own experiences before and after leaving the family on his 18th birthday. ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thirty-best-anti-westboro-baptist-church-signs/574922/34 "2011-03-18T11:32:13Z")
My favorite: “Dude, Phelps is SO Gay.” I also loved the two older ladies with their little sign. Rock on, ladies! ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thirty-best-anti-westboro-baptist-church-signs/574922/35 "2011-03-18T14:05:14Z")
I like #13 – “Drink the Kool-Aid Already!” ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thirty-best-anti-westboro-baptist-church-signs/574922/36 "2011-03-18T14:24:04Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > My favorite: Dog Loves Fags. Mine too. > [@G0sp3l](#): > > I like #13 the best and actually laughed at #23. The only one I’m not a great fan of is #13 but that’s a little personal; Jonestown isn’t that long ago for some of us. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thirty-best-anti-westboro-baptist-church-signs/574922/37 "2011-03-18T14:47:11Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Personally, the sign I’d love to see is “God loves Fred Phelps”. I’d amend that a little: “God loves Fred Phelps; the rest of us think he sucks!” ---
**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thirty-best-anti-westboro-baptist-church-signs/574922/38 "2011-03-18T21:36:01Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > [Part 1](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW2JgPMQdVc)of a very long lecture by Nate Phelps. Very interesting. He discusses his father’s “X-Treme Calvinism” (he preaches predestination- gays are all going to hell and there’s absolutely nothing they can do about it, so his purpose isn’t trying to convert so much as just point it out) and the physical abuse and his own experiences before and after leaving the family on his 18th birthday. Fascinating presentation. Thanks for posting that link. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thirty-best-anti-westboro-baptist-church-signs/574922/39 "2011-03-18T22:33:21Z")
This one is my favorite: [GO JOSH! | My friend stood outside in front of these protest… | Flickr](http://www.flickr.com/photos/duanecmoody/175676563/) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thirty-best-anti-westboro-baptist-church-signs/574922/40 "2011-03-18T22:53:38Z")
Hilarious, but I felt really bad for the tiny Phelps kid with the “God hates fags” sign. Kiddo is going to grow up to be a a positively wretched adult, most likely, and it isn’t his fault. I loved the dog, though. I imagine him lecturing puppies, telling them that when _he_ was a pup, his owners were still scared to admit they were anything other than roommates. Good doggie. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thirty-best-anti-westboro-baptist-church-signs/574922.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thirty-best-anti-westboro-baptist-church-signs/574922.md?page=3)