Westboro Baptist Church to picket funerals of JCC shooting victims

[azurnoir]

Source: JPost

The church, which is considered a “homophobic, anti-Semitic hate group” by the Anti-Defamation League, is infamous for picketing the funerals of American servicemen killed in Afghanistan and Iraq and for its vocal anti-homosexual position.

WBC will picket the funeral of William Corporon and Reat Underwood in religious protest and warning,” the church announced on its web-page godhatesfags.com. Terming the shooting at the Jewish institution a divine reminder that America has “sinned away her day of grace,” the church said that such funerals have become “pagan orgies where they worship these corpses instead of the Lord their God.”

“The lord God killed these people with his own hand. He appoints the time when each of us is born and when each of us dies. You must ask ‘why now?’ for these victims. WBC will gladly answer: ‘For the sins of this vile nation.’” The church also tweeted a flyer explaining its rationale for the picket to a number of Jewish personalities, including Jewish Agency spokesman Avi Mayer.

Calling those mourning Corporon and Underwood “faux-Christians” who are part of a “filthy community,” the WBC flyer blamed the shooting on gay marriage and “filthy fags” before calling on Twitter users to “repent or perish” and “give God the glory.”

Read more: http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/Westboro-Baptist-Church-to-picket-funeral-of-Kansas-Jewish-center-shooting-victims-348638

[madaboutharry]

1. Westboro Baptist Church are publicity hounds, in addition

to being psychos.

[AtheistCrusader]

3. I've noticed they say they are coming to various things quite a lot

but after they get their headlines, nothing materializes.

[AtheistCrusader]

2. Pagan orgy?

Shit, I'm busy that weekend.

[Half-Century Man]

9. Ya know , the good kind.

Can you imagine a WBC orgy?

A high light reel of their greatest depravities would put a meth addled humming bird to sleep.

[awoke_in_2003]

14. I wish they would have an orgy...

maybe if they got laid they'd lighten the fuck up and stop being assholes.

[smartphone]

4. Check out this thread about Westboro Baptists at Univ of MAss today

http://www.democraticunderground.com/113737182

Flee the University of Massachusetts As Anti-Protest Brings in Several THOUSAND

[countryjake]

8. Thanks for that heads-up! What a wonderful turnout! n/t

[geretogo]

5. If these filthy pigs did this for any in my family at a funeral I would mace them all and leave them

crawling away in pain .

[derby378]

6. Where is Fred Phelps' grave?

We have a right to know...

[SoapBox]

7. This scum better NOT get a fucking tax break as a "church"...

They are a terrorist group.

[freshwest]

12. Not only do they get a tax break, several of them have state jobs. Ain't it grand? n/t

[struggle4progress]

10. WBC makes this announcement every time there's a high-profile funeral

Half the time, they don't even show -- but, boy, does everybody give them publicity

As far as I can tell, just about nobody out there -- left, right, or center -- has any use for WBC

They have precisely one idea: Lookie! Here's another high profile funeral! We can go hold up signs promoting homophobia! It doesn't even make any fuckin sense

The only reason they get coverage is because the media is too lazy to report real stories

[marble falls]

11. CRAZY.

[Behind the Aegis]

13. How sad they (and others) must be that no Jews were murdered.

They are a disease. I feel for the people whose families will have to deal with these assholes. May the families of the affected be able to mourn in peace.

[Ash_F]

15. I am convinced that these people are performing some kind of advanced troll. /nt