The Feel Good Film of the Year

[William Haskins]

if you're not familiar the batshit crazy spawn of the rev. fred phelps, read this first (http://www.adl.org/special_reports/wbc/default.asp).

for those of you who already know about these scumbags, enjoy (http://www.break.com/index/westboro_baptist_church_chased_away.html).

[SpookyWriter]

How about Debbie does Forrest Stump? Great action. Lots of suspense. I almost died when Forrest offered her a hershey bar. OMG! Those people kill me everytime.

[SpookyWriter]

I'm speechless.Hillary. Is that you?

[MattW]

Phelps has been a supporter, organizer, and contributor for Clinton and (especially) Gore.

I guess unless they bring in big political bucks these guys (http://patriotguard.org/) won't get any media attention.

[maestrowork]

Phelps has been a supporter, organizer, and contributor for Clinton and (especially) Gore.

Cite please. I personally doubt it because Phelps would never contribute to "fag-lovers" such as Clinton or Gore.

From Wikipedia:


According to FrontPageMag.com, a conservative online political site, Phelps supported Al Gore in the 1988 and 1992 elections. In his 1984 Senate race, Gore opposed a "gay bill of rights" and stated that homosexuality was not a choice that "society should affirm". Phelps has stated that he supported Gore because of these earlier comments.[citation needed] According to Phelps, members of the Westboro Baptist Church helped run Gore's 1988 campaign in Kansas. According to WorldNetDaily, another conservative online news site, Phelps has claimed he hosted a Gore fundraiser in his home attended by almost 500 people. Gore spokesman Dag Vega declined to comment; "We are not dignifying those stories with a response."[verification needed] According to the Georgia Log Cabin Republicans and Mother Jones magazine, Fred's son, Fred Phelps Jr. held a fundraiser, which Al and Tipper Gore attended, at his home in Topeka, and Fred, Jr. would have served as a Gore delegate to the 1988 Democratic National Convention.


All of the above seems to be unsubstantiated "claims."

[William Haskins]

http://www.logcabinwa.com/archive/200010251159.shtml

[BottomlessCup]

Boo on Gore, then.

If he chummed around with Phelps after WBC started their dog and pony show, it's pretty unforgivable for me. The Log Cabin site doesn't seem able to substantiate the Inaugural invitations bit and the fundraiser is too early in the WBC saga, since they didn't come to major notoriety until the Matthew Shepherd case.

Either way though, he associated with people who liked him because they thought he shared their hatred. That's pretty icky.

[oswann]

I think the first comment after the video pretty much sums it up.


Os.

[oswann]

I just clicked on these boffin's web site (http://www.godhatesfags.com/main/index.html) and there is a schedule of military funerals coming up today (6 Dec.). I'm not sure about you but if I was going to pick on someone I'm not sure it would be grieving soldiers. This is going to end badly.


Os.

[blacbird]

Phelps has been a supporter, organizer, and contributor for Clinton and (especially) Gore.

You reached a new low here, Matt. You gotta stop imbibing whatever it is that gives you these hallucinations. This is such distilled ridiculousness that it hardly merits comment, except, since you chose to post it, I guess some of us are forced to.

The "Reverend" Phelps showed up here in Alaska a couple of years ago to protest a gay pride parade, and his troop of inbred mouthbreathers marched around with signs vilifying the mayor (a Democrat) for permitting it to take place. He was ignored by everyone, and soundly thrashed in commentary by people from all points on the normal human political bell curve. The good news, I suppose, is that this simian is so far out of touch that he actually does little discernible harm.

caw

[limitedtimeauthor]

It's been going on for a long time, Os.

But that video was very gratifying. Although I don't want to see a mob actually do harm to these jerks, because that would be just as bad (worse?) than what the jerks do.

God, these people are - can't even find words.... "Ignorant" is too good for them.

ltd.

[oswann]

It's amazing no one has been killed.

Os.

[MattW]

You reached a new low here, Matt. That statement is insensitive to little people.

You gotta stop imbibing whatever it is that gives you these hallucinations. This is such distilled ridiculousness that it hardly merits comment, except, since you chose to post it, I guess some of us are forced to.
The sources may be biased, but certainly posed photos of Al Gore with Phelps Jr at his home lend credibility to Phelps' claims that he hosted a fundraiser for Gore at his home? I know it's a stretch.

That may have been in Gore's Senatorial life, when opposing gay bill of rights would play well to Tennessee voters. Enlightened Democrats know he left behind that platform when he hit the national stage. Integrity.

[MattW]

It's amazing no one else has been killed.

Os.Let's not forget the dead soldiers.

[Unique]

too bad the cops showed up

[Eveningsdawn]

I was watching something on the Tyra Banks show - not my usual fare, but I catch it once in a while - here (http://www.break.com/index/crazy_phelps_family_on_tyra.html). I can't embed the link, sorry.


And I feel incredibly, incredibly sorry for the daughters. They said they didn't have any friends where they go to school - because they follow the doctrine of their family. One of them is 19 - my age. You know what she likes to do outside of her religion? Run. That's it. The other one likes to run. And study spanish. It's just... kinda sad.

The mother I can't stand. But the girls are just following like puppies after her, and I can't understand that sort of blind obediance.


ETA - I remembered where I first heard the name Fred Phelps! I live in Mass., and I have a friend who went to Lexington High School. Lexington delights in pushing limits, and I'm sure many of you know about the children's books read there that depicted families as being able to include gay parents. Anyway. Phelps protested at her graduation. That's why he seems so very familiar.

[aghast]

too bad the cops showed up

lol lol next time they should show up 30 minutes late, i nominate this film for hte oscar this year - wonderful

[Celia Cyanide]

So what about Clinton?

[oswann]

Let's not forget the dead soldiers.

I figured they were dead already.


Os.

[eldragon]

The virulently homophobic Westboro Baptist Church recently began picketing the funerals of U.S. soldiers who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan as a way of venting rage at a government that they believe is tolerant of homosexuality. The group has used the same tactic against the gay community at hundreds of events nationwide

I guess this is one reason why I'm not religious. I cannot for the life of me see the link between dead US soldiers and a tolerance for homosexuality in the US. I just can't see it.


I guess I need to pray harder.

[William Haskins]

you can't condemn all religion for a radical splinter group's bastardization of christian concepts to fit their personal prejudices.

[eldragon]

you can't condemn all religion for a radical splinter group's bastardization of christian concepts to fit their personal prejudices.

No, of course not. Just like I'm not going to let the fact that this church is based in Topeka, Kansas, change the way I feel about the state I was born and raised and lived 18 years in.

[Unique]

Unique! Wow! For sure, the cat is back.

And i meant it.
I have a neice and nephew in the service and know this for sure - homosexuality would be the least of these people's worries should they show up a funeral of someone I know and love.

[blacbird]

That statement is insensitive to little people.

The sources may be biased, but certainly posed photos of Al Gore with Phelps Jr at his home lend credibility to Phelps' claims that he hosted a fundraiser for Gore at his home? I know it's a stretch.

That may have been in Gore's Senatorial life, when opposing gay bill of rights would play well to Tennessee voters. Enlightened Democrats know he left behind that platform when he hit the national stage. Integrity.

I can find you pictures of John Wayne Gacy posing with Rosalyn Carter at a fundraiser, and George H. W. Bush shaking hands with Timothy McVeigh. Obviously that makes them supporters of terrorism and serial murder.

Oh, and let's not forget Don Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein.

caw

[William Haskins]

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