The Wesboro Baptist Church of Topeka, KS has built their sterling reputation for batshittery by engaging in a continuous nationwide-tour of biblical homophobia, protesting the funerals of soldiers, productions of Rent, schools named after Walt Whitman, and any variety of high profile events that have nothing to do with homosexuality.
As I’ve written before, the Phelps [...]
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Phelps Family Circus Expands Repertoire to Protest Jews
Posted in J'accuse, Today in Crazy Also tagged anti-Semitism, Fred Phelps, homophobia, homophobic, Israel, Jesus Christ, Jewish, Jews, Judaism, racism, Westboro Baptist Church Comments closed
Tempest in a Tea Party
Posted in Politics, Today in Crazy, Whine & Cheese Also tagged Daily Show, demonstration, Fox News, freakshow, IRS, Jon Stewart, taxes, tea party, teabagging Comments closed
UK to Westboro Baptist Church: Bugger Off
Prudence wrote earlier this week about plans for a British protest tour by America’s most embarrassing and insensitive religious extremists, the Westboro Baptist Church, led by homophobic self-hating gay in denial, Fred Phelps.
Church members–most of whom are related to Phelps–had apparently planned to make a trip to jolly England to protest a college production of [...]
Posted in Bitching and Moaning, J'accuse, Schadenfreude, Today in Crazy Also tagged England, Fred Phelps, gays, homophobia, homosexuals, Laramie Project, Matthew Shepard, self-hating gays, UK, Westboro Baptist Church Comments closed
Chinese Premier Shames George W. Bush
On February 2, Martin Jahnke, a 27-year-old pathology student originally from Germany, took off his gray athletic shoe and winged it at Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during his speaking engagement at Cambridge University.
Jahnke was apparently inspired by Iraqi journalist and Dogood hero Muntazer al-Zaidi, who flung the shoe heard round the world at President George Bush [...]
Posted in Dirt, Heroes, J'accuse, Politics Also tagged Cambridge, China, George W. Bush, Iraq, Iraqi journalist, media, Muntazer al-Zaidi, shoe protest, sole protestors, Wen Jiabao Comments closed