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Westboro Baptist Church to Protest Penn State; Atheist and Gay Groups to Counter-Protest

Posted on 11/11/2011 11:32:31 AM PST by celticfreedom

Westboro Baptist Church, best-known for picketing funerals of dead soldiers, is now taking its show of hate to Penn State - to protest the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal that has rocked the country and shocked the university. However, the divisive group's actions have united a divided campus, by inspiring a counter-protest by the atheist and LGBT student groups.

On Saturday, Nov. 11, the WBC will be holding up its famously abrasive signs at Beaver Stadium in University Park, PA where the Penn State football team will take on Nebraska. According to the WBC website, "Penn State has the wrath of God raining down on them in righteous judgement!"

WBC says the alleged cover-up is similar to the cover-up scandals that have plagued the Catholic Church in recent years. "They have taken from the playbook of the Catholics. Let's diddle the little kiddies and hide it from top to bottom!" the group's website says. "Fitting that the head cover-up artist is called the Pope of Happy Valley. How sick is that! Not surprising, but sick!"

In addition, the radical fundamentalist group also plans on protesting the current state of education.

"College in this country is nothing more than a giant party, with a few classes set to instruct in sin thrown in for good measure," the WBC site says. "What you have turned out of those classes are raping priests, raping coaches, raping marines, along with various other violent dangerous brutes that are poised to be tomorrows 'heroes' in this vile land. Wake up! You have angered your God beyond recovery. More and worse is coming! America is doomed! "

However, despite the polarizing nature of WBC as well as the sex abuse scandal itself, which caused many Penn State students to riot after it was announced legendary football coach Joe Paterno was fired, the radical group has caused the Penn State Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Ally Student Alliance to team up with the Penn State Atheist/Agnostic Association in a counter-protest.

For Scott Brown, president of the Penn State Atheist/Agnostic Association, it is not that WBC is protesting the child sex scandal which has inspired his group to counter-protest, but the "bigotry" that they represent.

"I think it's hateful and it's bigoted and narrow-minded and it supports cultures of intolerance that we have in America," Brown said, according to Penn State college newspaper, The Collegian.

Alyssia Motah, co-president of the LGBTQA Student Alliance, says that WBC's presence will be a chance to be heard.

"The fact that they're going to be here is an opportunity for us to react and we intend to do that," Motah said.

Motah also hopes that other students will join in.

"Just to visibly be there is going to be a great and I hope the student body will stand behind us on that," she said. "We will be the ones with rainbow flags."


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: deviancy; homosexualagenda; missinglink; pederastagenda; pederasts; pederasty; pedophile; pennstate; queer; westboro
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1 posted on 11/11/2011 11:32:33 AM PST by celticfreedom
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To: celticfreedom; Chode

As the old saying goes..”even a broke clock is correct twice a day”


2 posted on 11/11/2011 11:34:38 AM PST by Morgana (This space for rent.........cheap)
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To: celticfreedom

Let’s not forget, Sandusky is a HOMOSEXUAL pedophile.


3 posted on 11/11/2011 11:37:15 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Morgana

If the “gods” are smiling upon us that day..perhaps they will take each other out...


4 posted on 11/11/2011 11:39:52 AM PST by celticfreedom (the most precious jewels you'll ever have around your neck are the arms of your children.)
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To: celticfreedom
Westboro Baptist Church - political activists for Al Gore in 2000. This is a case of the left cannibalizing itself.

This "church" of left wing trial lawyers who are trying to kookify (pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it) the church vs. those who hate the church because it's not homosexual. They both have the same goal. Destroy the church.

This should be exciting. What have they got to argue about away from the TV cameras?
Maybe they could do lunch?

5 posted on 11/11/2011 11:41:41 AM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: celticfreedom
Just like the Iran-Iraq war,
you just want to sit back, eat popcorn and hope each side annihilates the other side.
6 posted on 11/11/2011 11:41:47 AM PST by kidd
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To: MrB

Every homosexual is a pedophile in waiting.


7 posted on 11/11/2011 11:44:34 AM PST by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: celticfreedom

If 2 groups of total a-holes and sh1t-for-brains want to fight a war with each other, that’s fine with me.


8 posted on 11/11/2011 11:44:46 AM PST by samtheman
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To: celticfreedom

“I think it’s hateful and it’s bigoted and narrow-minded and it supports cultures of intolerance that we have in America,” Brown said, according to Penn State college newspaper, The Collegian.

So what you are saying is that you love to see boys raped by homosexuals and vilify us for hating that?


9 posted on 11/11/2011 11:47:55 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: MrB

And that is why the gay group is counter-protesting.


10 posted on 11/11/2011 11:48:51 AM PST by 5thGenTexan
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To: Morgana
They're ALL trolls. A family of lawyers picketing funerals, calling everyone fags is hoping they get personally assaulted so they can sue the assaulter and the city for failing to protect them while demonstrating their rights. Fred Phelps was disbarred after a court reporter was late with some documents he needed. He then sued her for 22k and then.. well, here's the story and you will understand their motives better. A formal complaint was filed against Phelps on November 8, 1977, by the Kansas State Board of Law Examiners for his conduct during a lawsuit against a court reporter named Carolene Brady. Brady had failed to have a court transcript ready for Phelps on the day he asked for it; though it did not affect the outcome of the case for which Phelps had requested the transcript, Phelps still requested $22,000 in damages from her.[citation needed] In the ensuing trial, Phelps called Brady to the stand, declared her a hostile witness, and then cross-examined her for nearly a week, during which he accused her of being a "slut", tried to introduce testimony from former boyfriends whom Phelps wanted to subpoena, and accused her of a variety of perverse sexual acts, ultimately reducing her to tears on the stand.[17] Phelps lost the case; according to the Kansas Supreme Court: The trial became an exhibition of a personal vendetta by Phelps against Carolene Brady. His examination was replete with repetition, badgering, innuendo, belligerence, irrelevant and immaterial matter, evidencing only a desire to hurt and destroy the defendant. The jury verdict didn't stop the onslaught of Phelps. He was not satisfied with the hurt, pain, and damage he had visited on Carolene Brady.[17] In an appeal, Phelps prepared affidavits swearing to the court that he had eight witnesses whose testimony would convince the court to rule in his favor. Brady, in turn, obtained sworn, signed affidavits from the eight people in question, all of whom said that Phelps had never contacted them and that they had no reason to testify against Brady. Phelps had committed perjury.[17] On July 20, 1979, Phelps was permanently disbarred from practicing law in the state of Kansas,[17] though he continued to practice in Federal courts. In 1985, nine Federal judges filed a disciplinary complaint against Phelps and five of his children, alleging false accusations against the judges. In 1989, the complaint was settled; Phelps agreed to stop practicing law in Federal court permanently, and two of his children were suspended for periods of six months and one year. Fred's a malicious a-hole, that wouldn't be surprised if he was a flaming closet homo, and lashes out against it so hard, from self-loathing. That's my dimestore psychologist guess.
11 posted on 11/11/2011 11:48:53 AM PST by Osamabindead
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To: celticfreedom
matter + antimatter = no matter
12 posted on 11/11/2011 11:49:37 AM PST by Glenn (iamtheresistance.org)
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To: 5thGenTexan

Instead of “let’s not forget”,
I should have said, “this points out the fact that”

Sandusky is a _homosexual_ pedophile.

(I have to credit Norm Macdonald with saying this about Michael Jackson.)


13 posted on 11/11/2011 11:51:03 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: celticfreedom
it is not that WBC is protesting the child sex scandal which has inspired his group to counter-protest, but the "bigotry" that they represent.

So... they're protesting against those who say homo sex with children is bad, and they're protecting others who would jump at the chance to do the same thing with children.

In other words, homo sex with kids is good, and they want more of it.

14 posted on 11/11/2011 11:56:53 AM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: celticfreedom

I do believe this is the first time I could be called the slightest bit supportive of a Westboro protest.


15 posted on 11/11/2011 11:59:23 AM PST by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: celticfreedom

Any group organizing to supply these two group with bigger weapons ?


16 posted on 11/11/2011 12:02:17 PM PST by maine yankee (I got my Governor at 'Marden's')
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To: re_nortex

I have to disagree with this statement. Flame away.


17 posted on 11/11/2011 12:02:56 PM PST by Jenny217
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To: celticfreedom

Don’t tell me; They will be protesting the kids. Like Ann Coulter says-The Westboros are Satanists.


18 posted on 11/11/2011 12:03:48 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Mark Halperin - Learned the hard way what happens when you speak the truth on PMSNBC.)
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To: MrB
Let’s not forget, Sandusky is a HOMOSEXUAL pedophile.

The funniest thing I read was someone pointing out that Sandusky and Paterno were registered Republicans, as if it would somehow implicate all Republicans.

If that is the case, than it really implicates homos.

19 posted on 11/11/2011 12:05:06 PM PST by Retired Greyhound (.)
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To: celticfreedom
I'm not one who supports protesters who engage in violence, but in this case, I'd make an exception.

My money is on Westboro. They're all men (or at least they look sort of like men), and the others are girls (or they look sort of like girls).

20 posted on 11/11/2011 12:05:42 PM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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