Fundies picketing soldier's funerals. They died to protect homosexuality.

[Cyrano]

Every time you think it can't get any more insane, it does. Some Baptist group in Topeka, Kansas has been picketing at the funerals of soldiers who died in Iraq.

http://www.kten.com/Global/story.asp?S=4467904

According to these lunatic fundies, soldiers were "... struck down by God for fighting for a country that tolerates homosexuality."

The Rethugs have been kissing right-wing religious ass for 25 years now. And in doing so, they've unleashed demented freaks who would otherwise be hiding away someplace biting the heads off live chickens.

(For much more on this story, Google topeka soldiers funerals)

[Flubadubya]

1. Fred Phelps & Co.

'nuff said. :eyes:

[adriennui]

2. i can't think of words obscene enough

to describe that monster. let him rot in hell.

[neweurope]

3. Picketing funerals! How low can you get...

Sick people. And their logic is... is... I just do not know what to call that.

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[Warpy]

4. Someone on this board speculated that Phelps is getting a lot of cash

from the people who brought us all the right wing stink tanks because his antics are provoking a lot of towns to pass anti free speech laws. We all know the rich and powerful hate free speech almost as much as they hate all our other protections in the Bill of Rights.

He's got to be getting cash from somewhere. There has got to be a way to challenge his religious exemption from having his books examined.

He's being used.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. mst of his family attended law school

they make a lot of money by filing lawsuits to harass, then settle to cut the defense costs for the defendants. If you cross them, you will find yourself in court.
they are wild-eyed, crazy, demented fundies. I am trying to keep it clean here.

[Botany]

5. I so wanted him to go to West Va. and pickett the miners funerals

he had threaten to do that. I wanted him and his 10 or so idiots to go up into
the hills ..... Tallmansville not the big town of Buckhannon and protest.

The people there would have gutted them and strung em up alive. And if you
had local police there they would not have seen a thing.

Funny, he will only go where his rights are protected by police ..... he is a fraud
& chicken ........ and as somebody else pointed out on this thread ..... it is an act
designed to outrage so he can get cash from someplace.

[dsc]

7. I heard an iteresting commentary this on NPR

And the commentator was commenting on how sad it was that it took this before laws were contemplated when he merely targetted AIDS victims no one cared.

[noahmijo]

8. This is without a doubt a man whose grave will be pissed on by many

no seriously he deserves the worst, I can't wait till Karma catches up with him.

[flamingpie2500]

9. I have a bad feeling about this---passing legislation to ban protests?

This is exactly what they want...VERY sensitive ground here.
Funerals today--White House tomorrow?

[rman]

10. These folks should move to Saudi Arabia or somesuch country,

they don't tolerate homosexuality over there.

[Poppyseedman]

11. This freak is a democrat........... at least in name

Believe it not, Al Gore used to cozy up this nut case's family way in the 80's before they went over the edge.

[derby378]

12. Would we have cried if someone lobbed tear gas at them?

I think not. It's because of these racists and homophobes that some communities are writing new laws to halt any protests at funerals.

It could put a crimp on our plans to maintain a vigil over Nero's grave whenever he finally kicks the bucket to make sure he doesn't come back a la Bob Dylan.

[Child_Of_Isis]

13. Wonder why the media isn't all over this?

Why haven't they been trashed like Cindy? Maybe because they are not lefties?

[long_green]

14. this did make one of the cable networks this week

I caught a glimpse of the end so I couldn't get the spin. It was on FOX I believe.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

15. very little coverage - Our MSM like to protect the reputation of

american religious sects, so long as they are christian, and no matter how crazed they are.

You know - Fundies good, ragheads bad. (thank you, mAnn Coulter)
This is all a preview of our little Irani invasion.