Posted on 08/05/2008 9:44:59 PM PDT by Ptarmigan
Members of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church are threatening to picket the funeral of Tim McLean, the young man decapitated on a Greyhound bus last week. The Kansas-based church - a small fundamentalist sect led by Fred Phelps - is reviled in the United States for protesting the funerals of hundreds of soldiers killed in the Iraq war. The sect gained notoriety in the 1990s by picketing the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man beaten to death in Wyoming. Seven members of the church originally planned to picket theatre performances in Toronto and Red Deer, Alta., later this week. They recently added Mr. McLean's Manitoba funeral to their itinerary and plan to stand outside the service with signs reading "God hates you," "the wrath of God is revealed," and "God hates Canada." God is sending a message through Tim McLean's murder that He and the commandments must be obeyed, Ms. Phelps-Roper said.
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The Westboro folks are as sick as the demon-possessed man who hacked Tim McLean to death on that bus.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Fred Phelps has a younger sister named Martha Jean Capron, who lives in Pennsylvania. Phelps has disowned her and they are estranged. He also was estranged from his father and stepmother. His mother died at the age of 28. It would not surprise me if they protest Mrs. Capron’s funeral.
Wish Westboro Clan had the gonads to show up at Sturgis.
Vets his age could put some ass whoopin on him and his pack of cultists.
Church, my ass. The sorriest f***s who ever lived.
They are a front group for their sorry a** law firm that is not even allow to operate.
Unfortunately, … they call themselves a “Baptist” congregation, bad for all Baptist. Out of the approximately 44,000 Baptist churches in the US, this single church will give the rest a bad name.
That no one has punched his worthless lights in is a credit to the restraint of some very fine folks.
That church is not ‘Fundamentalists’. Mentalist more like it.
Like Phelps and his clan of wing nuts could afford to drive all the way to Canada.
Not only that, most of them probably couldn't get across the border with their criminal records.
And last but not least, Canadian laws are a little different. They wouldn't be allowed to protest and disrupt a funeral. It's not a public event, and funeral homes are private property. They would never be able to get a permit, and last but not least, They'd probably get the snot beat out of them by very angry Canadian youths.
And then there's that as well. Phelps and his group of retards do not represent any kind of Christianity. They are neither "fundamentalist", New age, baptist, Or any other denomination. They are simply a group of inbred nutcase relatives roving around the country causing trouble. Media however likes to use them and their claim of being a "church" to insult Christianity as a whole. Besides Fred Phelps, these so called media and their "journalists" (all that's required to be a journalist these days in grade 9 English and a high school photography coarse, and democrat or green party membership card ) need a good slap upside the head as well.
There is little dispute in this country that this is the sorriest excuse for a family to pollute a civilized nation since the Sawney Bean clan. (The Beans, 16th century Scottish bandits and cannibals, were eventually surrounded in their cave hide-out and killed by a posse).
They really aren’t “fundamentalists” — anyone think the MSM would have clued in by now.
The WBC are the filthiest pieces of subhuman excrement since the Nazis to disgrace the earth with their presence. I would offer two months salary as seed money for a legal defense fund for anybody who ends the pollution that is their existence.
I have read from defectors of WBC that Phelps is not that religious.
I don’t care, I just hope they all die in a fire, regardless of what causes it.
Ping your list. Hopefully some ballsy Canucks will dispense some much-needed justice to these douchebags, or at least drown them out in a counter-protest. Or maybe we can get Kanawa to disembowel them alive and use their remains as bear-bait.
They’re some sort of frauds put up by the Left is one common theory about WBC.
They are out to discredit Christians and those who oppose gay marriage, rights. etc.
An appearance in Canada might be needed to buck up the “human rights commissions” which have been taking heat for going after Mark Steyn and others for “hate speech” about Muslims, gays etc.
The WBC protest would help the Left to justify the need for such extra judicial tribunals by illustrating all the “hate” that’s out there.
I was just thinking that the only reason they are allowed to roam free is to discredit believers.
Freepers hate Phelps.
DUmmies hate Phelps.
You have to be a special kind of scum, they don’t even hate terrorists.
"Fundament" is much more like it.
Look it up if you doubt me
I know they are relying on freedom of religion and on the right to free speech, but there must be some laws they are breaking concerning the rights of the mourners they are tormenting.
It's simply disgusting.
Especially since the Mounties busted the group with signs, but the inbreds are claiming another group sneaked over the border and got their stuff FedEx’ed to them. If they DID, Westboro opened a big can of worms......
SUN MEDIA
A controversial U.S. religious group claims it held a brief rally a few streets away from the funeral of Tim McLean Jr. on Saturday, where hundreds stood guard to prevent the group from getting close.
Shirley Phelps-Roper, spokeswoman for Westboro Baptist Church and daughter of pastor Fred Phelps, said one adult and six female youths held a brief protest at Sturgeon Road and Portage Avenue from about 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
“It was a good, safe distance away,” said Phelps-Roper.
Farther west, dozens of police officers stood watch near the Westwood Community Church, where McLean Jr.’s funeral was held while a crowd of hundreds of citizens vowed to form a human chain to block Westboro members from getting near the site.
The funeral started at 4 p.m. but people gathered outside hours earlier.
A posting on a Facebook site dedicated to McLean Jr. expressed gratitude for citizens and police for their support at the funeral.
“We would like to thank everyone for your love and support (for) coming out to the church and lining up along the street,” it read.
Phelps-Roper said protesters did not display their signs and chose to picket away from the church because the Canadian government had made “lawless pronouncements” about arresting Westboro members.
Earlier last week, NDP MP Pat Martin (Winnipeg Centre) urged Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day and Immigration Minister Diane Finley to block the church’s passage into Canada.
Phelps-Roper said Westboro members still managed to slip into Canada.
The Topeka, Kan., fundamentalist church, deemed a hate group by some U.S. organizations, had earlier announced plans to picket at the funeral. The church had earlier claimed that McLean Jr.’s horrific slaying was God’s punishment of Canada for its liberal policies.
Phelps-Roper said church members left Canada shortly after the protest Saturday.
Winnipeg police said they did not receive any reports about a Westboro protest taking place.
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