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[Westboro] Baptist Church won’t go to Iraq: Comedian donates flight money to charity instead
Metro [UK] ^ | 23 Aug 2014 | Oliver Wheaton

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



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FULL TITLE: West Borough (sic) Baptist Church won’t go to Iraq: Comedian donates flight money to charity instead

Damn it.

1 posted on 08/23/2014 11:18:36 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
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To: Slings and Arrows; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
We can still crowdsource this, folks.


2 posted on 08/23/2014 11:19:44 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Your Daddy Was Drunk and Your Mama Was Lonely" - http://youtu.be/4HYy62qiOwA)
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Someone at the Westboro Baptist Church had an epiphany: If we go to Iraq, those are REAL Muslim killers who will kill us in very evil, nasty ways. Better to stay in this country and donate the flight money to charity. Self preservation is strong within these parishioners, Obi Wan.
3 posted on 08/23/2014 11:22:37 PM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: Slings and Arrows

Personally I think they would get a lot of coverage if the would go to Ferguson MO. on Monday. ;-)


4 posted on 08/23/2014 11:23:31 PM PDT by angelsonmyside
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To: Slings and Arrows

At least we would only have to buy one way tickets; they would not be coming back.


5 posted on 08/23/2014 11:25:51 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: MasterGunner01

I was hoping they were dain-bramaged enough to try it. *sigh*


6 posted on 08/23/2014 11:32:58 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Your Daddy Was Drunk and Your Mama Was Lonely" - http://youtu.be/4HYy62qiOwA)
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Personally I think they would get a lot of coverage if the would go to Ferguson MO. on Monday. ;-)

Ummm...yes! Lots and lots of coverage! And I hear that both the cops AND the protesters are gay!

7 posted on 08/23/2014 11:36:52 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Your Daddy Was Drunk and Your Mama Was Lonely" - http://youtu.be/4HYy62qiOwA)
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Apparently, the self preservation gene was stronger than the stupidity gene within the Westboro Baptist Church parishioners.
8 posted on 08/23/2014 11:37:28 PM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: Slings and Arrows

These Westboro Baptist Church people are very strange.

Some freeper had a great tagline that went something like this. “Live your life in such a way that when you die the Westboro Baptist Church will picket your funeral”


9 posted on 08/23/2014 11:37:47 PM PDT by Bobalu (Neutrality helps the oppressor never the victim silence encourages the tormentor never the tormented)
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To: MasterGunner01

They didn’t back down, the guy offering the free tickets withdrew offer


10 posted on 08/23/2014 11:38:28 PM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: ApplegateRanch

Sssssh!


11 posted on 08/23/2014 11:38:42 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Your Daddy Was Drunk and Your Mama Was Lonely" - http://youtu.be/4HYy62qiOwA)
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To: Bobalu; SkyDancer
Some freeper had a great tagline that went something like this. “Live your life in such a way that when you die the Westboro Baptist Church will picket your funeral”

That's SkyDancer, I think.

12 posted on 08/23/2014 11:39:59 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Your Daddy Was Drunk and Your Mama Was Lonely" - http://youtu.be/4HYy62qiOwA)
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That’s too bad. I hear Iraq is beautiful this time of year.


13 posted on 08/23/2014 11:40:25 PM PDT by berdie
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And it would have been even more beautiful if we could have sent the Phelps infestation there.


14 posted on 08/23/2014 11:45:00 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Your Daddy Was Drunk and Your Mama Was Lonely" - http://youtu.be/4HYy62qiOwA)
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I was *so* looking forward to this.

:-(


15 posted on 08/23/2014 11:48:04 PM PDT by Salamander (People will stare. Might as well make it worth their while.)
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I truly believe everybody has to be somewhere. :)

What better place for Phelps and his crew? I’m just sad it didn’t work out.


16 posted on 08/23/2014 11:49:30 PM PDT by berdie
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Well, that blows...

Could’ve been a great day for humanity...


17 posted on 08/23/2014 11:50:05 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Slings and Arrows

I would have contributed and paid extra for a private viewing of the outcome and watched it, while eating heavily buttered popcorn, as I played it over and over on my 80” TV.


18 posted on 08/23/2014 11:52:14 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Bobalu

They’re leftwing layers and rabid DemonRATS not a church. Freddy Phelps was honored by the NAACP and other pro-negro racist outfits. The Westboto goons were supporters of Al Gore.


19 posted on 08/23/2014 11:52:17 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: Bobalu

I’m living the dream!


20 posted on 08/23/2014 11:53:09 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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