Reason # 3564068 why the Westboro Baptist Church are a bunch of douchebags.

CinemaGoddess

 Westboro Church to picket Powell boys' funeral as anti-gay protest

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A notoriously anti-gay church plans to picket Saturday?s funeral for Charlie and Braden Powell and will be counterprotested by Occupy Seattle.

Margie Phelps, daughter of the Topeka, Kan.-based Westboro Baptist Church?s founder, tweeted Wednesday night that the church will attend the boys? memorial service. The protest is to ?remind? Gov. Chris Gregoire ?they died because of her rebellion,? a reference to her support of same-sex marriages.

Gregoire is expected to sign into law legislation passed by the Legislature allowing same-sex couples to marry in Washington. The measure - expected to land on her desk early next week - was approved by the state House Wednesday and by the state Senate last week.

Charlie Powell, 7, and Braden Powell, 5, were killed Sunday after their father, Josh Powell, blew up his Graham-area house in a gasoline-fueled inferno when they were dropped off for a supervised visit.

A memorial service for the boy is set for 11 a.m. Saturday at Life Center Church in Tacoma.

Phelps? tweet did not explain how picketing the funeral was a protest against same-sex marriage, but the devastating case has garnered national attention and the boys? service is expected to be widely attended.

In a later tweet referencing a story about Washington legalizing same-sex marriage, Phelps wrote ?This is why God?s cursed you w Josh Powells blowing up kids.?

Word of Westboro?s plans spread quickly online and Occupy Seattle sounded a call for its members to counter protest the church. The group?s Facebook page said the church ?has decided to capitalize on these sad events by bringing their unique brand of hate to Washington.?

Occupy Seattle said its members don?t intend to disrupt the funeral, but want to ?protect it from Westboro?s abhorrent message.?

Westboro is a small church known for its extreme stance against homosexuality. Its members have gained infamy by protesting funerals of American soldiers and celebrities.

They believe God punishes the United States for its tolerance of sin, which they believe includes accepting homosexuality.

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chach916

What the hell is wrong with these people!

KJmashup

Shiitstains. All of them.

Heather R

If something bad happened to every last one of them, I would do a jig.

They were after the little girl who died in the Gabby Giffords shooting. Some folks made giant angel wings and were prepared to stand together so the funeral folks did not see WBC.

KJmashup

I tell you, there are few things in this world that incite such intense anger in me. This group is one of them. I can feel my blood pressure go up when I read or hear about them. When I watched a documentary about them, I came unhinged.

 

gisa886

KJmashup:

I tell you, there are few things in this world that incite such intense anger in me. This group is one of them. I can feel my blood pressure go up when I read or hear about them. When I watched a documentary about them, I came unhinged.

 

You described my feelings exactly. I get the shakes and my BP shoots up. It is even worse when you see them in person.  

MegGary

Sick. They are absolutely sick in the head. 

DreadLoc

LoisLane23:

What shitheads. Maybe the motorcyclists will show up. They are usually pretty good about counteracting and blocking what the Phelps' try to do.

This was my first thought.  I really hope they show up or someone blocks the roads from them.  

These people are terrible. 

KJmashup

gisa886:

KJmashup:

I tell you, there are few things in this world that incite such intense anger in me. This group is one of them. I can feel my blood pressure go up when I read or hear about them. When I watched a documentary about them, I came unhinged.

 

You described my feelings exactly. I get the shakes and my BP shoots up. It is even worse when you see them in person.  

Yes, yes, I have. They were protesting at a Dallas suburban funeral for a military member who died in combat. Coincidentally, we were driving by while it was happening. I wish I had known they were there, or I would have had DH drive us out of the to avoid that scene. It made me want to physically hurt people.

 

jim7496

We lost our two women's basketball coaches here at OSU due to a plane accident.  They were planning on picketing their memorial service.  No clue why exactly.  A local radio station let them have one hour of radio time to "say their side" if they would promise not to disurupt the memorial.  They took the radio station up on the offer, and never came out to the memorial. 

And I second what Kirky said.

Libby1978

Disgusting!

My husband gets super angry about this group of a$$holes!  He wanted to form a group that went around a beat their a$$es every time they showed up to picket someones funeral.  He's a big guy, 6'8 about 320.  So his idea was to get a bunch of dudes his size together and just go off on these people.  I told him it was a nice idea in theory, but not in reality.

KJmashup

Oh, how I'd love to take a trip to Topeka when Fred Phelps dies.

gisa886

KJmashup:

Oh, how I'd love to take a trip to Topeka when Fred Phelps dies.

I plan on it. Topeka is where I first saw them. The kids they had with them just broke my heart.  

Kitiara5512

Douchenozzles make me want to commit murder.

daisygirl2010

mooshagirl:

I wish the news media would stop giving them any attention.  Maybe then they'd just go away.

THIS!  The attention is exactly what they want!  

But the media would NEVER ignore them.  Too juicy of a story.

Personally, it makes me physically ill when I hear about it.

 

 

 

lildevil968

We live in a Military town so we see them once every few months when they come to protest a soldiers funeral. They make me sick!

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ThePolishHammer

Those people are horrible.  I can't even describe how much they piss me off.

mrslucid

SookieFrackhouse68:

I watched the movie Red State a couple months back.

Westboro is just like the peeps in Red State.

They can all burn in hell, for all I care. I cannot fathom such hatred.

 

This. What horrible people who feel they have to protest a child's funeral.  I'm not religious but based on their actions, they aren't very Christian.