Posted on 07/30/2005 9:40:28 AM PDT by indcons
At a time when his loved ones are making funeral arrangements for a dedicated family man killed defending his country, a Kansas minister is making plans to use the funeral of Sgt. Christopher Taylor as a platform to push his anti-gay agenda. Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan sent out press releases Wednesday announcing that his group would picket and preach at the Opelika funeral. The release is filled with anti-gay language and is headed by the line Thank God for Improvised Explosive Devices Killing Americans in Strange Lands.”
Phelps grabbed national attention with his disruptive messages at the funeral of Matthew Shepard, the who was murdered in 1998 in an anti-gay hate crime in Laramie, Wyo. Since then, he has taken every opportunity to spread his message.
What do homosexuals and a tragic war death have in common? Phelps has a theory.
Using words not suitable for this newspaper, Phelps said that the government has allowed gays to take over America. He claims that the government allowed his church to be bombed by gays. As a result, Phelps claims that God is punishing the government by killing soldiers with bombs and sending them home in body bags.
We will be at the funeral to picket and and preach and let everyone know that these soldiers are dying because God is retaliating, picking off the soldiers one by one, the soldiers that are fighting for an America that is allowing homosexuals and sodomites to take over, Phelps said in a telephone interview Wednesday. We've been to seven funerals this week and will be in Opelika to spread God's word.
Opelika Mayor Gary Fuller was not aware of the planned protest before receiving a call from the Opelika-Auburn News, but made it clear that he will not allow a hero's funeral to become a circus.
This is America and Mr. Phelps has a right to protest, we would never deny him that right, Fuller said. But we aren't about to allow him to disrupt a funeral. We have the right to tell him where to go and to make sure that the protest won't be in a position to upset this family.
Fuller said he would have discussions with Opelika police Chief Tommy Mangham to have a plan to handle the possible protest.
I resent that remark on behalf of the loons. They are a harmless water bird and I have on good source that they never supported Al Gore.
No, No, No. Do not do this. That's what they want.
This "Reverend" Phelps is a dirty Democrat trial lawyer, if I may be doubly redundant. It is a scam. Nobody goes to his "church" but his relatives, who are all in on the scam too.
This despicable family of grifters is on a mission to do two things: 1) discredit fundamentalist Christianity, and 2) be so deliberately provocative and inflammatory that they are attacked, thereby allowing them to sue the locality where the attack took place for failing to provide security. They have collected millions of dollars in this manner.
-ccm
Here too...if anyone dared to protest and turn our family funerals into a sideshow for their adgenda they would be carrying their whooped asses back home.
You'd think knowing ahead of time that LE would be able to stop these people from invading a private ceremony.
That is funny. Fast Eddie will not be getting my vote.
I'll fall right into their little trap because there will be some leftist who are going to get their asses tromped.
I'm been a scrapper all my life. It might take me twice as long to get the job done as it used too, but I'll get it done.
How senseless, cruel and heartless!! He should be run out of town on a rail if he insists on pulling his crap in front of a grieving family!
Where is Eric Roudolph or Tim McVeigh when you really need them?
Right. Shit happens when you least expect it.
And if there are any protestors, a cemetary would be a good place for them, since I'd pay money to see those vets stomp the protesters into bloody pulp, and leave them for the cemetary workers to bury.
Mark
I like you
:-)
Kansas minister is making plans to use the funeral of Sgt. Christopher Taylor as a platform to push his anti-gay agenda.
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I believe there was an incident at another soldier's funeral where a female member of the Phelps Gang went inside the funeral home and handed the slain man's mother a vicious letter.
Is there anyway to alert the funeral home of this so they can provide security?
War Eagle!!! FReepmail me if you are planning to be at the funeral.
The funeral is next week....the date isn't available in the news as yet. I hope to get more news today.
The local mayor and the cops are aware of this idiot's likely appearance. Security at the funeral home should not be a problem. It is the disrespect that is abhorrent.
The most *EFFECTIVE* way to silence Phelp's pro-Democratic-Party agenda (he's a Democratic Party fundraiser and a DNC voting delegate) is to enlarge these photographs and carry them to his protests. Because Phelps wants to discredit Republicans and advance Democrats, these pictures will cause him extreme discomfort. These are not photoshopped; they are real and available at the Log Cabin Republican website.
Fred Phelps (left) and Al Gore (center)
Fundraiser at Phelps Home
Topeka, Kansas
Left to right: Fred Phelps, Tipper Gore, Betty Phelps, Al Gore
If this degenerate c-s'r showed up at the funeral of one of my family members, especially one whom had given his life for his country, I guarantee he would wind up in worse condition than the deceased.
See Post #38 for the most *EFFECTIVE* way of handling Phelps.
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