Still nursing their wounds of rejection by the Brits, our favorite self-hating homosexual and his band of merry bigots will be rolling through DC today.
The Phelps Family Circus of Westboro Baptist Church fame will be putting on a show of protest at Taft Memorial Park during the lunch hour, then heading over to Arlington National Cemetery to demonstrate the full extent of their hatred at the funeral of Marine Sgt. Trevor J. Johnson. In case you didn’t realize, the God these crazies worship is punishing America’s love of fags with the IED that killed Sgt. Johnson in Afghanistan.
Lest any of our readers feel inspired to head over to Arlington to give Rev. Fred Phelps, Sr. the punch in the nose he so richly deserves, take a minute to understand some of the reasons why these assholes try so hard to be uber-offensive provocateurs.
Like most good loud-mouthed Christians, the members of the Westboro Baptist Church want money and publicity. They do the most extreme and obnoxious actions to 1.) garner media attention and 2.) provoke a response that will allow them the basis for a lawsuit alleging suppression of their Constitutional rights.
The church has its own legal apparatus in the family, the Phelps Chartered law firm, which handles most of its lawsuits. If it prevails in a case charging the bigots’ civil rights had been violated, the firm even bills the US government for its attorney fees, as permitted by the Civil Rights Attorney’s Fees Award Act of 1976.
Last week, a few members of the Westboro Baptist Church traveled to Buffalo to demonstrate at the funeral of one of the victims of flight 3407–because, of course, their God brought down the flight because of America’s wickedness, not icing conditions, engine failure, pilot error, or anything else.
The bigots were surrounded by more than a hundred counter-demonstrators, many of whom wore white angel wings to block their hateful signs from the view of mourners–a practice first adopted at the funeral of Matthew Shepard.
According to the Buffalo News, about a half dozen Erie County sheriff’s deputies and other police kept the counter-demonstrators and the Westboro protesters separated, and no fiery confrontations occurred. The three Westboro protesters remained mostly silent, while a few counter-demonstrators occasionally jeered them.
The Erie County Sheriff’s Office said the demonstrations resulted in no arrests.
When reached by phone after the protest in Buffalo, Jonathan Phelps, a son of the group’s founder, the Rev. Fred Phelps Sr., told the Buffalo News he believes police were working with the counter-demonstrators and failed to protect his group’s freedom of speech.
In other words, the city of Buffalo can expect to be served with a lawsuit charging that local officials infringed on the fuckers’ free speech rights.
It really is quite a racket they have going.
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