Westboro Baptist Church planning to picket funerals in Connecticut
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[quote]Less than 48 hours after the Connecticut school shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, which took place on Dec. 14, the Westboro Baptist Church is already making plans to picket. The Westboro Baptist Church is known for picketing and protesting at funerals across the country.“Westboro will picket Sandy Hook Elementary School to sing praise to God for the glory of his work in executing his judgment,” [URL="https://twitter.com/DearShirley/status/279953994124783618"]Shirley Phelps-Roper[/URL] tweeted on Dec. 15.
“They need to come back to Oklahoma,” Bryan Weathers, from Moore, said. “We know how to take care of them here.”
“Westboro 'God hates Fags' Baptist Church is planning to pciket at Sandy Hook, to praise 'God's judgment,'” [URL="https://twitter.com/MargieJPhelps/status/280015437046104064"]Margie Phelps[/URL] tweeted as well on Dec. 15.
Westoboro Baptist Church is known for carrying signs that read “Thank God for dead babies” and the like. It is unknown what kind of signs will be seen, if the Westboro Baptist Church actually pickets in Newtown, CT.[/quote][URL="http://www.examiner.com/article/connecticut-school-shooting-westboro-baptist-church-planning-to-picket"]
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The Westboro Baptist Church is the scum of the earth.
This won't end well.
Why don't they just fuck off, already?
Cue dozens of pages of people saying WBC members should be brutally murdered for saying bad things.
thank god for dead babies?
praise god's judgement?
Fucking wow
[QUOTE=Zoran;38844640]Why don't they just fuck off, already?[/QUOTE]
Money
I heard somewhere that a lot of its members are lawyers, and they sue the ass off of everyone who tries to harm them
These people make me sick. These are the funerals of dead children. Can you imagine being one of the parents and having the last memory of your child being disrespected by these shits?
[QUOTE=racerfan;38844660]Money
I heard somewhere that a lot of its members are lawyers, and they sue the ass off of everyone who tries to harm them[/QUOTE]
This is the truth
WBC tries to extort money by suing people who act against them. They're a scam organization.
It's sad that this doesn't even surprise me.
But really, there has to be some sort of legal action that can be taken against these assholes.
[QUOTE=racerfan;38844660]Money
I heard somewhere that a lot of its members are lawyers, and they sue the ass off of everyone who tries to harm them[/QUOTE]Essentially. They're litigation trolls. Can't remember where it was pointed out, but some barrister or other such bloke pointed out various things like how they're careful not to point at or otherwise single out a person at their protests and say _they're_ going to hell, but just inflammatory but general statements like "Fags are all going to hell" and the like.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;38844696]They are a waste of oxygen, nobody would give two shits if they did just drop dead.[/QUOTE]I'm not saying they're not giant cunts, but it does smell a little of massive overreaction. They're just badmouthing; that's no reason to kill them, especially as it's within their rights to freedom of speech. Democracy would be in a shit state generally if having a dissenting and/or crap opinion was grounds for termination.
If they're indeed milking the legal system, efforts should be made to remedy that via legislation rather than lynch mobs.
I'm gonna guess the number of people counter-protesting them. I'd say probably 2k+.
Maybe the government will get up and actually do something if it outrages enough people, this time.
[QUOTE=racerfan;38844660]Money
I heard somewhere that a lot of its members are lawyers, and they sue the ass off of everyone who tries to harm them[/QUOTE]
If this turned out to be their primary motive I don't know whether I would be more, or less sickened.
[QUOTE=Slater;38844713]Maybe the government will get up and actually do something if it outrages enough people, this time.[/QUOTE]
Hopefully. Doubt it though.
"First amendment rights! It'd be unconstitutional to silence us!"
I'm very anti death penalty, and I don't think anybody deserves to die, but...
sometimes I don't think some people deserve to live.
I remember hearing about the college students who made a human fence around a military funeral....would be nice if people would do that here also.
Edit: Source- [URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/06/texas-am-students_n_1653002.html"]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/06/texas-am-students_n_1653002.html[/URL]
[QUOTE=AJisAwesome15;38844734]I'm very anti death penalty, and I don't think anybody deserves to die, but...
sometimes I don't think some people deserve to live.[/QUOTE]
While I don't necessarily wish death upon them... If something were to happen to them, I wouldn't be too upset about it.
[QUOTE=AJisAwesome15;38844734]I'm very anti death penalty, and I don't think anybody deserves to die, but...
sometimes I don't think some people deserve to live.[/QUOTE]
I'm anti-death penalty on everyone except for these guys
They're not even going to get close to it
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;38844722]If this turned out to be their primary motive I don't know whether I would be more, or less sickened.[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty certain it is.
Some of the members of the church probably do believe in what they're saying, but I think most of them are in it for the money.
they're picketing funerals
for fucking kindergartners
how fucking low can you get
What the fucking hell is their reasoning?!
Seems like an idea that only a person on some fucked up doses of drugs would think is a good one, or the "right" one.
If the government doesn't intervene, I hope the Patriot Guard does.
[QUOTE=AJisAwesome15;38844734]I'm very anti death penalty, and I don't think anybody deserves to die, but...
sometimes I don't think some people deserve to live.[/QUOTE]
having a conflicting opinion undermines the other aka you're not an advocate of the death penalty but you make this dumb exception
I hope they get run over by a truck loaded with hydrochloric acid.
[QUOTE=Ownederd;38844850]having a conflicting opinion undermines the other[/QUOTE]
cry about it
really, who gives a shit?
The real idiots are the people that give them the attention they so desperately want.
Ignore them and they'll go away.
Sometimes, I wonder why no one has done a Valentine's Day-esque Massacre on these motherfuckers yet.
I guarantee that if this goes down people will get shot (Not that i'm going out to shoot them)
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