Westboro Baptist to picket Tony Snow's funeral

Wait a minute

You mean they aren't still in deep mourning for Jesse Helms? I thought they were all still locked away doing the 'sackcloth and ashes' lamentation thing for 30 days... are they allowed to come back out in public yet?

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by: Louise @ Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 06:10:56 AM CDT

Pay Attention

They did not care for Jesse Helms either.

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by: tony @ Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 22:17:33 PM CDT

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It seems

they don't care for anyone outside their immediate family.  The rest of the world is all sodomites and sodomy-enablers I gather.

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by: onthesea @ Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 23:55:53 PM CDT

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A lovely irony

I like it when the Right Wingnuts start either burning (or being burned by) their own:  it is, indeed, a lovely irony.

I know - don't speak ill of the dead.

Well, he's dead.  

Good!

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by: 'Bean @ Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 06:26:46 AM CDT

Even the right wingers think Phelps is a screwball

He's been very useful, however, because he makes their extremist blatherings seem reasonable and sane by comparison. I will admit to a generous helping of schadenfreude that Phelps has slipped his leash and is causing the right a tremendous amount of pain and embarassment.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même merde.

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by: TechBear @ Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 08:05:35 AM CDT

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Not exactly

The right wingers PRETEND that they think Phelps is a screwball.  Their theological view that god used to protect america but does not do so much anymore because america has turned evil, mostly because of homosexuality, is a view held by many, including dead Jerry Falwell and alive (?) Pat Robertson.  The beliefs are the same, the Phelps just aren't  concerned about bad PR so they don't back down when they get hammered publically for saying what they believe.  

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by: tony @ Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 22:21:38 PM CDT

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bad monkey?

does this mean they believe in evolution?

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by: StSean @ Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 07:29:22 AM CDT

Could someone explain to me what spices and herbs have to do with this?

Mint, anise and cumin? It sounds like some recipe for one of Cindy McCain's Trollop-House Cookies.

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by: rptrcub @ Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 07:41:12 AM CDT

It means "paying attention to inconsequentials and not to important matters"

Mint, anise and cummin were used in the sacrifice rituals and so were part of what observant Jews could tithe to the Temple as a way of showing their religious devotion. Within the larger context of his tongue-lashing the religious scholars, Jesus here is saying that they were being careful about the herb tithe but ignoring far more important matters.

The irony of Phelps using this passage is priceless, as he (in my opinion) is EXACTLY the kind of person that Jesus was condemning.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même merde.

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by: TechBear @ Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 08:16:06 AM CDT

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The person who is most insistent he speaks for Jesus...

...is the person who actually knows the least about Jesus.

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by: Paul K @ Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 09:52:25 AM CDT

At some point

WBC has to reach a critical mass of insanity and collapse into a psychotic black hole. I just keep wondering when it will happen.

Cause any fool knows, a dog needs a home; a shelter from pigs on the wing

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by: QueerInSoCal @ Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 10:11:07 AM CDT

I wish I cared about either Tony Snow's funeral or this protest

I don't

I wouldn't actively speak negatively about Tony Snow after his death, or cause his family pain, but I'm simply filled with apathy towards this event, or any related protest.
I don't recall Tony Snow speaking out when PWA's funerals were the only target of Phelp's rabid hate...you get back what you put out there.

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner

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by: peteyPornpig @ Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 10:44:32 AM CDT

Who pays for them?

WBC is supposedly a small church in a small community with a small congregation. So, who pays for these trips to protest funerals that they keep going to? No matter how they get there, it costs lots of money to travel these days either by plane or land-based vehicle. They have to sleep somewhere, and eat, so the cost of each trip must add up to be quite a little bit.

In the next 6 weeks they will be in: Fayetteville, NC; Washington, DC; Bltimore, MD; Nicholasville, KY; Orlando, FL;  Denver, CO; and St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN. Where is the money coming from for all these trips? Obviously Phelps isn't raising money from the pulpit, because he's never there.

Under the section on their web site labeled "Love Crusades" (that sounds like something from the 60's) there's a  picture of a guy holding a sign saying "God Hates the USA". Ah, love is hate, hate is love. If nothing else I love the irony.

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by: Grrrowler @ Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 11:40:04 AM CDT

They're attornies

and they sue at the drop of a hat, over anything and everything.

Cause any fool knows, a dog needs a home; a shelter from pigs on the wing

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by: QueerInSoCal @ Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 12:53:37 PM CDT

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They also have a habit...

...of sending out press releases announcing upcoming protests and then not showing up.

"If the apocalypse comes... beep me." -- Buffy Summers

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by: Kathy @ Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 13:38:50 PM CDT

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UNSUBSCRIBE PHELPS

I honestly wish I could avoid hearing about Phelps altogether.  This group is the Paris(ite) Hilton of the anti-gay world - it really only exists to be photographed and gossiped about.  They thrive on attention, and no one is willing to turn a blind eye.

They're not even significant to conservatives anymore.  They're a weirdo cult.  Why do they still get press?

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by: turingcub @ Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 11:46:27 AM CDT

Tony Snow was in town two months ago

fundraising for our local Focus on the Anus branch to amend the constitution and bar gays from marrying.

He was deeply mourned by our local bigots - I guess they just aren't bigoted enough

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by: tiponeill @ Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 14:49:12 PM CDT

Where to send a statement of support?

Those of us who have seen the Westboro folks in action might like to send Tony's family condolence and a statement of love and support.  I want to say to the Snows that we know that, just like Westboro's other picket victims, Tony Snow is holy and deserving and blessed.  Even if he didn't always show us the same loving recognition!  Seriously, tho, anybody have any ideas?

kelleyann

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by: kelleya1 @ Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 20:56:08 PM CDT

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I don't agree that Tony snow is (or was) holy, deserving, or blessed.  All evidence seems to the contrary.  But don't worry too much about his family.  These protests do not interfere with funerals... if they did, then they would be illegal... they happen down the street.  If they don't want to see the protest, they can look the other way.  Which is what everyone should do rather than continue to give attention to these strange calvinist/primative baptist beliefs that should have gone out of style decades ago.

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by: tony @ Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 22:28:45 PM CDT

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