Killeen residents drown out protesters from fringe church

Stateman.com ^ | 11/10/2009 | Jeremy Schwartz

[armymarinemom]

LOL. Makes me think of this

[Non-Sequitur]

Just a guess: Westboro Baptist Church?

Gee, what gave it away?

[TribalPrincess2U]

I’ve heard they’re all lawyers.

[Bluegrass Federalist]

I am thrilled they didn’t name them. Those bastards are neither Baptists or a Church, or even Christians. When you must refer to them, please refer to them as the Phelps family.

May they rot in hell.

[armymarinemom]

You do have a point. I’m a Baptist and it irritates me no end that they call themselves that. I usually just use initials.

[King Of Battle FA]

THANK YOU armymarinemom and ALL of the supporters of troops YOU ALL are truly appreciated I have served in both wars and have lost Battle Buddies in both and was deeply disturbed at the signs that I saw you and all the other quick reactionary support group is what truly make America great again from the bottom of my heart I thank you the family of our fallen hero's don't ever need to see this type of ill protest at the worst possible time thank you from this Soldier

[armymarinemom]

I wasn’t there. I looked for the article after my DIL told me about this. She is ever so grateful that the protest didn’t go well for the bad guys. She said the families never saw them.

[Richard Kimball]

I'm kinda surprised today wasn't the day. I always thought Fred Phelps looked like that demonic preacher in Poltergeist 2.

I think it's good that they didn't name them. They're Attention Whore level RED:

[Brytani]

My husband, born and raised in E. Texas said when I told him about these lowlifes that he was “surprised nobody killed them”.

[BIGLOOK]

Sorry to hear this happened.

Westboro Baptist Church isn't a church, it's a bunch of incestuous lawyers who inflame the public during private memorial services and pray for some infringement of their rights......to litigate.

Avoid them.

[Brytani]

I read an expose of their family years back, seems Phelps would get off beating his wife and forcing sex with his daughters.

At least he’s been disbarred, though Phelps has his children (who are scared to death of him from all reports) to do his dirty work.

[BIGLOOK]

That's pretty much what I'd heard as well.

They make money off small towns and counties by suing over infringement of their rights and (suspect) cases of vandalism to their property. They win enough to move on to their next target.

[RaiderRose]

The strain the military is required to endure is unimaginable.

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It’s so true. When my husband was at DLI in Monterey, CA, there were several incidents of soldiers have slushies or hot coffee thrown on them while in town in uniform. They actually had to have briefings making sure the soldiers knew they could NOT do anything to these people in response unless they were “attacked,” i.e. punched or something like it.

I saw with my own eyes a very pleasant man at the booth for the Democrats (before the 2004 election) screaming and yelling at two young GIs in civilian clothes who had stopped at the Republican table. He was calling them baby killers, etc. They stood there, a calm and polite as could be.

[Marie]

What pigs!

[Gene Eric]

You can only hope the love and support so many Americans have for the troops is not overshadowed by the thoughtless rancor.

What’s happening today with respect to the Hasan assassinations is reprehensible. Many are standing up on behalf of the troops and calling out the miscreants, regardless of rank.