Westboro Baptist Church to picket Oklahoma liquor store over sign mocking Fred Phelps' death

upi ^ | March 28, 2014 | Evan Bleier

[JoeProBono]

The Westboro Baptist Church is saying that it will picket an Oklahoma liquor store that put up a sign mocking the death of the group’s founder, Fred Phelps.

Phelps died on March 20 at the age of 84.

To commemorate the occasion, Moore Liquor decided to have a champagne sale and posted a sign reading, "Fred Phelps 1929-2014, Champagne 10% off! Not a coincidence."

The WBC doesn’t find the sign funny and plans to protest. The store sounds fine with it.

"I was a little reticent about putting up the sign in the first place because I have two good parents who raised me not to speak ill of the dead, but I couldn’t help feeling that the world was a better place without Fred Phelps," store owner Bryan Kerr told the Huffington Post.

"He did so much to spread his special brand of hatred while bastardizing Christian principles that I thought it might be appropriate to recognize his lack of corporeal existence with some celebration. As a Christian myself, I truly hope that Fred found some peace with God and maybe even had a change of heart before passing."

[tomkat]

Won't pretend to know what it means, jsut guessing there's a redirection buried in one of those urls somewhere, some kinda 1px web bug or summat ? :

             

[MD Expat in PA]

Notice they never picket Gay Pride Parades.

That is not exactly true; they have and still continue to do that. And FWIW the first time the WBC came to the national spot light was over their picketing of the funeral of Matthew Sheppard.

But by protesting or even threatening to protest and then not showing up at soldier’s funerals or the funerals of others like the kids who died at Sandy Hook, the Nickel Mines Amish school shooting victims or at the funerals of the children who died in the Oklahoma tornado outbreak last year, that get’s them the max amount of outrage and therefore of the press they seek.

[dangus]

That’ll help sales. Seriously.

[BykrBayb]

They aren’t Baptists. How many times do people need to be told this?

[BykrBayb]

Phelps’ group are still not Baptists. Tomorrow they will still not be Baptists.

[JoeProBono]

Image came from http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2011/03/02/supreme-court-fundamentalist

[a fool in paradise]

Buycott in progress...

[Slings and Arrows]

L'chaim!

[Slings and Arrows]

Very nice!

[Slings and Arrows]

In Judaism we taught to only say good about the dead, so...

He’s dead. Good.

[MeshugeMikey]

Thank you

THe Bonus Tribute!

[JoeProBono]

[RichInOC]

The problem with living your life so Westboro will picket your funeral is, of course, that Publicity Whore Baptist will picket pretty much anyone.

[Slings and Arrows]

“Well done, thou good and faithful servant!”

[Slings and Arrows]

That’s why you have to make yourself a priority case.

[Slings and Arrows]

That’s what FR needs - a print version.

[MeshugeMikey]

The future may not be in print! I dunno

[TexasCajun]

[metmom]

They can dish it out but can’t take it.

Hypocrites!