September 10, 2007
We Only Wish There Were So Many “Enablers”!
Senator Larry Craig has come under fire for hypocrisy from the GLBT community; the Idaho Republican, who has a long record of voting against GLBT Americans, was arrested, then pled guilty to, lewd conduct in a Minneapolis airport mens’ room sex sting operation. But now Craig has come under fire from an entirely new quarter: the church of right-fringe anti-gay reverend Fred Phelps.
In a press release dated Aug. 28, Westboro Baptist Church, located in Topeka, Kansas, exhorted followers to “Thank God for revealing a bit of truth about Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho; and, by a logical extension [sic], about the United States Congress.”
Said the church’s press release… “Every member of Congress is either a fag or a fag-enabler. God Almighty has now drawn back the curtain of hypocrisy and lies for all the world to see how fags and fag-enablers run the government at every level–starting at the top.”
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The press release went on to say that the church would picket Senator Craig’s offices in Boise and in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 10 and Sept. 11, respectively, “in religious protest and warning” with the message that, “God Hates Fags! & Fag-Enablers! Ergo, God hates Sen. Craig, and ldaho, and America.”
Let’s pray/chant/hope for a long, happy life for Fred Phelps and his Moronical Mystery Tour — he’s the best advertisement against fundy insanity we could ever hope for, and if he didn’t exist, we’d have to invent him.
Filed under: Fred Phelps, Hate Speech, Idaho
