Posted on 08/23/2014 11:18:36 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
The West Borough Baptist Church nearly made a journey to Iraq to protest against IS, after taking up an offer from comedian Adam Hills to fly the anti-gay hate group to the war torn country.
The Australian comic made his pledge on his show The Last Leg, on Channel 4 last Friday after the church vowed to picket the funeral of Robin Williams, who they labelled a ‘fag pimp’.
He told members of the controversial church to ‘put your money where your mouth is’ and offered to fly them to Iraq so they could protest against the killing of Christians by Islamic State militants.
‘I’ll even fly them first class and pay the carbon offset,’ he said.
We accepted! Whence tickets? @PhilCooke: An offer to fly WBC members 2 Iraq 2 protest. Sounds like good idea to me:
huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/19/ada…—
Westboro Baptist (@WBCSays) August 21, 2014
On last night’s show Hills informed viewers that since making the announcement he has been contacted by many people who say they will contribute money towards flying West Borough Baptist Church members to Iraq.
However after a week of WBC attacking Hills and posting abusive images directed at Muslims on Twitter, he opted to take the high road and decided instead to donate all the money raised for the flights to St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, a charity Robin Williams was a supporter of.
The comedian said he wanted to ‘spread love instead of hate’ through the donation, which was made in the name of the late actor.
I just donated to Remembering Robin Williams: A Benefit For St Jude. Please donate to this amazing cause here: crowdrise.com/honorrobin/fun…—
Adam Hills (@adamhillscomedy) August 22, 2014
Yeppers, that was me. It’s also the tag on my profile page at the bottom. -
but will they go to Ferguson??
I wish they coulda been sent to the St. Swisher funeral instead... put the FUN back in funeral.
Good tag.
You and me both.
The military calls that red-on-red.
Let’s just say if you go to the Syrian Premiere of this fake, but accurate movie, be sure to wear your long sleeved Flak Jacket and matching Skullcap. There are bound to be ‘fireworks’ of one sort or another.
Wait....the WBC didn’t decide not to go...the guy decided not to fly them over there. The headline is a bit misleading...I say buy them the plane tickets and send a couple of reporters.
They are a disgusting pile of crap.
That’s right!
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