Westboro Baptist Coming to Orlando, Authorities Confirm

The Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | June 17, 2016 | Jennifer Brett

[Cecily]

ORLANDO, Fla. — Westboro Baptist Church, whose members are known for protesting high-profile funerals claiming that God’s wrath brought about the deaths, announced its plans to head to Orlando, Florida, after the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.

Officials with the Orlando Police Department confirmed on Thursday afternoon that the group was Florida-bound, citing a letter from the church.

[Albion Wilde]

Will their friend Al Gore be there?

I know, right? Yuck and ptah.

[Leaning Right]

And I continue to be amazed that nobody has sued them for every cent they have. Any jury, anywhere, would certainly rule against these Westboro people.

[DesertRhino]

Exactly, I know how i’d vote on that too.

[vette6387]

Just wiehed all of the Westboro clan had been in the gay nightclub in Orlando the other night.

[af_vet_1981]

They are Baptists, independent and fundamental; they look to the Bible and the Baptist creeds as their authority; and they protest against almost anyone with other beliefs.

[MuttTheHoople]

They’re a Democrat front group, to make Christiane look bad.

[NRx]

+1

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Are they actually Baptists or impostors?

They are trial lawyers trying to bait a city into violating their "constitutional rights" so they can $ue the bejeebers out of them.

Seriously. It's what they do.

[2nd Amendment]

They’re not Baptists, they’re not fundamentalists, and their not Christian. They are a bunch of haters on fire of hell!

[Neoliberalnot]

thank you for hitting the head of the nail. These rats do more to make queers look good than the local queer parade. They also make Christians look very bad. It is indeed a contrived false flag. or should we say, false fag?

[JimSEA]

These ahoes do more damage to you and I than can be accurately measured. A lot of atheistic and agnostic young adults believe they are typical of “right wing Christians”. They are what, a dozen or so, financed and organized by seriously disturbed people.

[Roccus]

You are 100% correct, but for some reason FReepers insist on talking about them as if they ARE a church.

[Buckeye McFrog]

How much Soros money is flowing into this “Baptist Church”, I wonder?

The Baptists need to sue them for copyright infringement.

[headstamp 2]

Fine, let them run into the current crop of protesters out there who won’t give a damn about being sued.

[WENDLE]

didn’t they just fire Art Briles? What idiots.

[Roccus]

Right.

It is why they ALWAYS have videographers with them.

[dfwgator]

The check from the Southern Poverty Law Center must have come through.

[heartwood]

I am surprised no one has flung body fluids at them.

People at soldier’s funerals are in too much grief and too dignified, but surely WBC has made themselves obnoxious on other occasions.

[exit82]

Bikers for Trump should show up and corral them.

[lacrew]