July 14, 2008
You know Godwin’s Law. You may have heard of Poe’s Law.
Now, there’s Buffy’s Law.
Learn it. Know it. Use it.
You’ll find many, many opportunities to cite it — trust me.
Like, f’rinstance, when the CEO of a Web portal providing insurance information insists on promoting the hateful lies of Paul Cameron, debunked, discredited, disgraced, and disgraceful “researcher,” as fact (and insisting he has no political agenda in mind, despite his far-right-wingnut activism*).
Like, f’rinstance, one Robert Bland, of Insure.com, Lifequotes.com, and Quotesmith.com, whose outing as the worst sort of religious extremist** is now in progress at Box Turtle Bulletin:
Insure.com’s Anti-Gay Propaganda
Timothy Kincaid, July 11, 2008
Insure.com’s CEO Bob Bland Responds
Timothy Kincaid, July 11, 2008
Insure.com CEO Defends Paul Cameron
Timothy Kincaid and Jim Burroway, July 14, 2008
Do be sure to read the comments on each article as well, in full. (Even Warren Throckmorton chimes in.)
But before you do, promise me you’ll learn Buffy’s Law first. Believe me, it will come in handy. (Oh, and Buffy will also give you a quick, painless refresher on Godwin’s Law and Poe’s Law, too.)
Further reading:
Dr. Paul Cameron and the Family Research Institute
Queer Resources Directory
Operation: Falafel
DailyKos, November 11, 2005
O’Reilly’s Advertiser: The CEO Responds
Ad Nausea, March 9, 2006
Insure.com, Inc. Inks Sponsorship Deal with Rush Limbaugh
January 10, 2007
Robert Bland’s Federal Campaign Contributions
1992-2007
* Serving on the board of Illinois Right to Life alone qualifies one as a far-right, radical-extremist, wingnut activist.
** The worst sort of religious extremist is the one who denies his bigotry, cloaks his radical activism in the name of Jesus, and then cries persecution by those he is persecuting. Frankly, we have more respect for Fred Phelps and Co.; Freddie and Shirley hate us with a passion &mash; but they’re honest about it. Phelps may be mean, hateful, and crazy as a loon, but Fred Phelps is not a hypocrite. Robert Bland, on the other hand…
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June 15, 2008
Well, I doubt we’re going to meet him, or even meet him — Freddie doesn’t appear at too many of his own protests anymore, opting instead to let his mad cow of a daughter, Shirley Phelps Roper, lead the “God Hates Fags” klan around these days.
But one thing’s for sure: I’m a big fan of Fred Phelps! No, really, I am: After years of allowing the crazy old coot and the rest of his Filthiest Family Alive to fill me full of anger, disgust, and hate, I realized that Fred Phelps is the best advertisement for Teh Homosexual Agenda there is — he’s the poster boy for religious extremism, the perfect cartoon illustration of the dangers of corrupting, twisting, and perverting “The Good News” (and then swallowing it, vomiting it up back, and flushing it down the toilet) to suit one’s own religious psychosis. He is the Bogeyman of the Radical Religious Right (even though he’s a Democrat — did you know that?), The Thing from Another World that shoves the hypocritical insanity of ultra-fundamentalism smack in the gobs of the general public, forcing John and Jane Q. Public to see the anti-gay crusaders for the hate-filled nutbags they really are. (Oh, you think the “mainstream” anti-gay brigades disagree with Phelps? Hell, no! They just don’t have the guts to say what they’re thinking, out loud, like Freddie does. But believe you me, the Westboro Baptist Church speaks for them.) If Fred Phelps didn’t exist, we’d have to invent him.
That said, Buffy and I were delighted to learn that Insane Phelps Posse will be performing (for two days only!) right here in our own backyard, to protest marriage equality in California. Buffy has the details; in short, they’ll be in both Monterey and San Francisco tomorrow, Monday, June 16th (do they even know how far apart Monterey and SF are?), and in Martinez (don’t get too close to that refinery, Freddie! it blows up a lot!) Tuesday, June 17th.
And you bet your buttons Buffy and I will be there in SF, to give Freddie a warm, Golden State welcome.
Speaking of buttons, The Buff and I had a ton of “Can I Vote on Your Marriage Now?” buttons made to give away at San Francisco Pride next weekend, which we’ll now be giving away tomorrow. If you want one, come find us amidst the crowd at San Francisco City Hall tomorrow afternoon — we’ll be the vertically-challenged, long-haired Italian and the taller blonde with the baby-blue bedroom eyes, wearing our “Can I Vote on Your Marriage Now?” T-shirts.
Whatever you do, my fellow Californians, come to one of these Phelps protests if you can possibly make it! This is going to be fun, fun, fun!
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April 5, 2008
Fred Phelps and his hateful, attention-seeking clan are learning that despite their legal wrangling, there are some predicaments they just can’t get out of.
A federal judge in Maryland on Thursday ordered liens on the Westboro Baptist Church building and the Phelps-Chartered Law office.
If the case presided over by U.S. District Court Judge Richard D. Bennett is upheld by an appeals court, the church, at 3701 S.W. 12th, and the office building, at 1414 S.W. Topeka Blvd., could be obtained by the court and sold, with the proceeds being applied toward $5 million in damages Bennett imposed on church members for picketing a military funeral.
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The $5 million penalty is the result of a lawsuit filed against three of the church’s principals by Albert Snyder, the father of Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew A. Snyder, whose funeral was picketed by church members.
The senior Snyder contended the picketing caused emotional distress and invasion of privacy.
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One of Snyder’s attorneys, Sean Summers, of York, Pa., said Thursday that based on financial information supplied during a hearing on the case, paying the $5 million penalty likely would force the church and the three named officials of the church to file for bankruptcy.
However, he said, even bankruptcy wouldn’t let them out from under the $2.1 million punitive damages part of the judge’s order. They would still be obligated for that amount under federal bankruptcy rules.
The Phelps family might go bankrupt because of their hateful, abominable behavior? Awwwww.
In addition, the judge on Thursday required Shirley Phelps-Roper to post a $125,000 bond and Rebekah Phelps-Davis to post a $100,000 bond by May 5 or he will rescind a stay ordered by the court to prevent confiscation of their property.
But Phelps-Roper, an attorney, called that meaningless. She said the only property she and Phelps-Davis own are their homes and courts are forbidden from confiscating a person’s home.
“I have nothing at risk,” she said.
In February, Bennett ordered Phelps-Roper, Phelps-Davis and their father, Pastor Fred W. Phelps Sr., to provide detailed financial information about their interests.
The records showed the church property to be worth $442,800 and the law office building to be worth $233,000. Summers said the lien could be placed on the law office building because it is owned by Phelps Sr.
“He (the judge) looked at my tax returns and saw that we give money to the church, and he didn’t like that,” Phelps-Roper said.
The Judge didn’t like that you give money to the church, which is owned by your family and comprised mostly of family members, as a means of essentially legally hiding your money away–tax free? I wonder why. 
I suppose now the Phelps clan will have another reason to blame gays. Thanks to us, they’ll claim, they may very well be bankrupt and may have to discontinue their holy crusade–if only for a while. I don’t expect they’ll consider the possibility that their own behavior had anything to do with it. People like them seem incapable of such insight.
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March 30, 2008
Unfortunately we weren’t able to make it to the event due to financial constraints, but we’re excited nonetheless. About 400 people marched on Topeka to protest the nasty, homophobic Phelps clan and their practice of picketing funerals across America. The event was such a great success they hope to make it an annual event.
They came with signs of love, respect and tolerance in all different races, sexual orientations and age groups, to show members of the Westboro Baptist Church that they too have first amendment rights.
“Standing up is the right thing to do,” said JD Stottlemire, march participant. “I think it’s exciting it’s the million fag march today, not because it has anything to do with homosexuality but because it dis-empowers the Phelps.”
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Chris Love is the organizer of the march, but you didn’t have to be homosexual to participate.
So what’s behind the name?
Love said it has to do with the church’s use of the word.
“Generally it seems to be the case with them that anybody who’s not apart of their church gets called a fag, so in that situation everybody here is a fag,” Love said.
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The Phelps have been around for 17 years and have done more than 34,000 pickets.
They were invited to the march to express their views but didn’t show up.
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With police protection on the ground and in the air participants peacefully walked the streets of Topeka.
And though the demonstrators know they won’t change the minds of the Westboro members, Love had this to say.
“You can at least have your voice heard,” he said.
Topeka police say there were no problems with the march.
Because of the large turnout, organizers are planning to make the protest an annual event.
Maybe next year we can be there!
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March 10, 2008
Lauren Burk (left) and Eve Carson
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With the South reeling from the apparently unrelated murders of two college co-eds (and now a third, Katharine Wood, of the University of Arkansas), the Freddie Phelps Road Show, a.k.a. Westboro Baptist Church, found reason to protest the young women’s funerals.
Why? Well, you might guess because the suspected murderer of one is an Iraq vet presumably with PTSD (his mother apologized immediately, saying that Courtney Lockhart “hasn’t been the same after serving 16 months in Iraq”) — and the Phelps Klan is happy to see anything (especially death) befall a U.S. soldier. In this case, however, it sounds like they’ve got a new protest meme going; i.e., God hates everybody.
But we’re getting ahead of ourselves here. First, the murders:
Auburn, Alabama police are investigating the murder of an 18-year-old Auburn University student from Marietta, Ga. School officials say Lauren Burk was shot to death last night. Her body was found on Alabama Highway 147 ( North College Street) near Farmville Baptist Church.
Police say they got the call to a woman injured about 9:08 p.m. and found Ms. Burk suffering from a gun shot wound to the chest. She was taken to the East Alabama medical Center where she died from her injury.
Police say at approxiamately 9:27 p.m. Auburn Campus police received a call of a vehicle on fire in the Hinton Field parking lot located on Lem Morrison Drive on the University campus. The car was a 2001 Black Honda Civic that was registered to Ms. Burk. The car was in flames and was extinguished by personnel from the Auburn Fire Department.
Burk’s death came just hours before Eve Carson, the 22-year-old student body president at the University of North Carolina, was gunned down near the school’s Chapel Hill campus about 500 miles away. No suspect has been named in Carson’s death. Her vehicle was stolen in the crime.
Carson had been shot several times, including at least once in the head. A medical examiner found that she had not been sexually assaulted.
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The fatal shooting at UNC occurred hours after 18-year-old Lauren Burk was shot and killed just off the Auburn University campus in Alabama.
In that case, Burk was found by police Tuesday night a half-hour before her car was discovered in a campus parking lot on fire. The fire was extinguished but no one was in the car.
Auburn police and authorities in Chapel Hill, where Carson was killed, said there does not appear to any investigative link between the two crimes, which were separated by 500 miles and seven hours. The tie instead is the similar shocking impact the killings have had on the respective campuses.
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Auburn police have beat back speculation that Burk’s slaying might be connected to the unsolved disappearance in June 2006 of 24-year-old Auburn University graduate Lori Ann Slesinski. In that case, the woman’s car was found ablaze less than a week after she was reported missing along a road.
(You can get the basic facts on the Lori Ann Slesinski case here.)
Now, about Phelps: The Westboro Baptists announced that they would be protesting both Burk’s and Carson’s funerals — and then, they did:
MARIETTA, Ga. — A line of American flags was visible on Sunday as mourners arrived at the funeral of Lauren Burk, the Auburn freshman who was shot and killed Tuesday.
Dozens of Patriot Guard Riders stood vigil, each holding a flag, across the street from Temple Kol Emeth, in Marietta, Ga., to block the Burk family and mourners from Westboro Baptist Church protesters whose signs read “God is Your Enemy,” “God Sent the Killer” and “You Eat Your Kids.”
The Westboro protest group was alloted 45 minutes to protest and had approximately four people present.
Timothy Phelps, a member of Westboro Baptist Church, and a relative of its founder, Fred Phelps, said that God sends people to do terrible things because Americans are involved in “rampant sin.”
“Everyone ignores us and things just get worse,” he said.
On Saturday, the group traveled from Athens, Ga., where earlier in the day they protested at services for Eve Carson, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill student who was also gunned down earlier in the week.
“You won’t obey me so I am going to do things to get your attention,” Phlelps said, referring to God. “Well, maybe if you weren’t involved in rampant sin, God would stop sending these killers.”
To block mourners from the protesters, the Patriot Guard Riders, a group who attends at the funerals of soldiers to help block the view of protesters who may upset funeral-goers, held flags and formed a long line. …
Oh, I see: The meme is now “God sends killers.” Got it.
You know what would be fun? When Freddie dies, to protest his funeral with signs reading: “God sends massive strokes.”
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March 6, 2008
This is your chance to take part in an historic event. Give Fred Phelps and family a taste of their own medicine. Join the Million Fag March!
Contact: Chris Love
Tel. (785) 783-4730
Email: sansphelps@yahoo.com
Website
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
“MILLION FAG MARCH” PLANS TO PROTEST FRED PHELPS
Group Hopes For Large Numbers Outside Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, KS.
TOPEKA, Kans., February 7, 2008 – March 30th is the date one small group is hoping one large group will take a stand against Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church. Beginning at 11:00AM on that Sunday, a planned protest will take place outside of the church in Topeka, KS. “A million people may be aiming a little high, but we’re hoping for a large turnout,” said Chris Love, one of the March’s organizers. “This isn’t a ‘gay-only’ event. Anyone who would like to express their displeasure with the Phelps family and their continuing message of intolerance and hate is welcome.”
The virulently homophobic Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), based in Topeka, Kansas, has gained notoriety by picketing the funerals of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan to protest what the group sees as America’s acceptance of homosexuality. The group has used this and similar tactics at a variety of events nationwide.
Some wonder if the march will only draw more attention to the Phelps’ message. Love noted, “Up until now, the only media-mentioned protests against the WBC were footnotes to stories about the Phelps’ publicity stunts. We don’t think we’re going to change the Phelps’ minds, but we hope they realize that there is an opposing voice that is equally as powerful as their own. Or at least, as powerful as they perceive it to be.”
And if that doesn’t work? “Well, for one day we’ll bring homosexual and heterosexual people together for a united cause. In Kansas, no less.”
To find out more about the MFM, visit our Website.
If you’d like more information on this topic, or to schedule an interview with Chris Love, please call (785) 783-4730, visit our Website, or email sansphelps@yahoo.com
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January 25, 2008
A few (quite a few) dumb-butts keep insisting that nobody other than “a few fringe gay activists” know, much less give a hoot, about Barack Obama’s continuing association with the anti-gay religionist brigades.
Well, listen up, dumb-butts: If you thought Obama’s hypocritical, two-faced, double-dealing, under-the-table, behind-the-scenes, low-down, dirty crap-o-rama was flying under the “mainstream” radar (how’s that for the most mixed metaphor in history?), here’s some news for you: You’re wrong. Again. And so’s your Saint Barry.
From CBS News, which found Carrie Budoff Brown’s piece from The Politico “valid” enough to pick up this morning:
Gay Community Still Wary Of Obama
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“If we are honest with ourselves, we’ll acknowledge that our own community has not always been true to King’s vision of a beloved community,” Obama told 2,000 worshippers Sunday at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King once preached. “We have scorned our gay brothers and sisters instead of embracing them.”
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Yet … At the same time as Obama’s Sunday speech, gay bloggers were digging into the background of the Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, a spiritual adviser to President Bush who endorsed Obama a day earlier.
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The twin developments appeared to encapsulate the tension inherent in Obama’s embrace of what he calls a new style of politics, his belief in forging alliances even with those who hold fundamentally different views.
In this case, he has spoken out against homophobia in front of black audiences while embracing some black religious leaders who are resistant to gay rights.
“People are confused,” said Wayne Besen, a gay activist and founder of Truth Wins Out, a New York organization aimed at countering the “ex-gay” movement. “We see one report of him saying powerful words. Then he is hanging out with some shady characters. People don’t know what to make of that.”
Wayne, darlin’, we love ya, we really do, but what “people” are you talking about when you say, “People are confused”? Obama cultists, perhaps, are confused, as they should be — but not one clear head that’s been following this stroke-Peter-while-screwing-Paul game Obama’s been playing has ever been “confused” in the least.
I’ve known “what to make” of Obama since the day he told us gay folks to STFU — no matter how long and loud and hard we protested, that self-loathing faux-”ex-gay” Donnie “Gays Are Trying to Kill Our Children” McClurkin was going onstage to woo the homophobes, no matter what (and woo he did).
By Monday, Caldwell’s church, Windsor Village United Methodist in Houston, scrubbed its Web site of any reference to the gay conversion program, Metanoia Ministry.
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“I got to tell you, this is going to sound real stupid, but I didn’t know it was on our website,” Caldwell said. “I was surprised and embarrassed by it. I’m embarrassed from the standpoint that I should have known. We have 120 ministries at the church. You can’t be on top of everything.”
When asked if he opposed such programs, Caldwell said: “It’s not a ministry of the church. It is not supported financially by the church. It is not located at the church. That is pretty much where I am with it.”
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But blogosphere skepticism has persisted, in part because of this connection: Barbara Hicks, a church staff member and treasurer of the church’s Prayer Institute, is listed as the contact for Metanoia Ministry. She uses a church phone number and email address.
“That is my ministry,” Hicks said Tuesday when reached at her church office.
She directed further questions to Caldwell, who said Hicks “does it on her own.”
How stupid do these people think we are? Caldwell and Hicks are playing the “Go ask your mother / Go ask your father” game. And it stinks — to high heaven. If either of them were so secure in the rightness of their “ministry,” neither would try passing the blame off on the other.
And neither would disgust me half so much if they would accept responsibility for their hateful, anti-gay brainwashing “ministry.” I’ve got more respect for Fred Phelps — at least that crazy old bastard stands by every vile word he’s ever spat out of his brittle old chapped lips, and doesn’t blame his sickening actions on anyone else.
I’ve said the same about Huckabee and Romney and all the rest of the screw-the-gays Republican candidates: At least they make no bones about where they stand — and about what they’d like to do to me.
Or, to quote Duane Wells yet again: “I never thought I’d say this, but Mr. Obama’s duplicitous stance on gay and lesbian rights circa the Donnie McClurkin controversy has given me something of an appreciation for George W. Bush’s no-nonsense approach to politics. I may not agree with a thing that comes out of curious George’s mouth, but at least he doesn’t piss in my cornflakes and tell me that he filled the bowl with whole milk. No sir. If there is a good thing to be said about President Bush it’s that he will tell you he’s going to piss in your cornflakes, then he will actually piss in your cornflakes and then he will hold a press conference defending his right to piss in your cornflakes. There’s no deception. It’s honest and clear… whether you like it or not. With Obama that is unfortunately not the case.”
“It matters who you are endorsed by because these are the people who are going to be calling in favors,” Besen said. “The gay and lesbian community has the right to be disturbed when such individuals are standing up beside Obama.”
Read those words again: “It matters who you are endorsed by because these are the people who are going to be calling in favors.”
Damn right.
You hear that, all you Obamaites who keep whining like a bunch of little girls: “Obama’s not responsible for the views of everyone who endorses him!” Take off your blinders: If you believe that a candidate’s backers don’t expect — or get — anything in return for corraling votes and money for that candidate, then you don’t know the first thing about politics. That’s the way it works: You wash my back, I’ll wash yours. Why the hell do you think the Bushites have been courting the Radical Religious Right all these years?*
If you don’t understand that, then you’re too naive — or just too stupid — to vote this time around. Learn something about the world, and maybe by 2012 you’ll be ready to come join the grown-ups back in Realityville.
* And why do you think the RRR came thisclose to abandoning the GOP altogether? Because the GOP didn’t deliver, that’s why.
Now, don’t you Obamaites use that as an excuse to sing that old song that goes: “Obama’s just courting conservative Democrats. When he gets in office, he’ll lead the fight for gay equality!” That’s a pile of crap, and you know it; it’s the same damned song we hear every election cycle. And consider this: If Obama is making promises — to any group, including the Radical Right — that he has no intention of keeping, what does that say about his honesty?
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January 24, 2008
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A. Fred Phelps doesn’t wear glasses.
Otherwise, we can’t see much difference.
Matt at Think Progress has been following the story of Faux News Talking Schmuck John Gibson, and his revolting mockery of the death of Heath Ledger:
John Gibson Mocks ‘Weirdo’ Heath Ledger’s Death: ‘He Found Out How To Quit You’
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January 23, 2008
Morning Joe Hosts Blast Gibson’s Ledger Comments: ‘Sick,’ ‘Unconsciable,’ ‘Mean-Spirited’ And ‘Hateful’
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January 24, 2008
Gibson Defends His Mockery Of Ledger’s Death: ‘No Point In Passing Up A Good Joke’
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January 24, 2008
Gibson: ‘To anyone offended by my comments, I’m sorry.’
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January 24, 2008
More:
Complain to FOX about John Gibson’s mocking of Heath Ledger’s death
NewsHounds
January 23, 2008
Fox News Host John Gibson Cruelly Mocks Heath Ledger’s Death and his Role in Brokeback Mountain
GLAAD
January 24, 2008
Dan Abrams calls out Fox News’ John Gibson and his anti-Brokeback, anti-Heath comments
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January 24, 2008
Heath Ledger: Fox Newsman Apologizes After Controversy, More Updates
TV Guide
January 24, 2008
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Not like that’s any big surprise. Joke’s on Freddie & Co., ‘though — the Westboro Asshats— er, Baptists have no idea where Ledger’s funeral is to be held, although it would make sense that it would be in the actor’s hometown of Perth… Australia. (Go ahead, Fred! Take the whole damn klan overseas — we’d bet money your psychotic bunch will never get past the good folks of the Australian Customs Service.)
Here’s the story from ABC News:
A fundamentalist church whose members demonstrate at the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq and believe God hates gays will protest the Academy Awards and the funeral of Heath Ledger, because the actor played a gay cowboy in the 2005 film “Brokeback Mountain.”
Members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., are trying to find out where the 28-year-old actor’s funeral will be held and have already made signs to hold outside the Oscars that read “God Hates Fags and Fag Enablers,” “Heath in Hell” and “Mourn for Your Sins,” Shirley Phelps-Roper, daughter of the church’s controversial founder Pastor Fred Phelps, told ABCNEWS.com.
Though Ledger was not gay, the church believes he “misused the giant megaphone given to him by God Almighty to speak the truth about fags,” Phelps-Roper said, and instead “used his position of prominence to say God is a liar and that homosexuality is not an abomination.”
The time and location of the Ledger’s funeral remain unknown, but it is widely believed it will take place in the actor’s native Australia.
“They are going to try and hide the body like a bunch of ghouls so we can’t protest. The only thing in this country people worship more than filthy sex acts is the dead,” Phelps-Roper said.
She said members of the church had already purchased plane tickets to picket outside the Oscars, scheduled for Feb. 24 in Hollywood.
A press release posted to the church’s Web site, godhatesfags.com, reads: “Heath Ledger is now in Hell, and has begun serving his eternal sentence there — besides which, nothing else about Heath Ledger is relevant or consequential.”
We like what the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Mark Potok had to say:
“The group is made up of people who are almost literally out of their minds” … “I doubt there is anyone in America who thinks more about gay sex than Fred Phelps,” Potok said.
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September 11, 2007
Evangelist Tammy Faye Messner was remembered Monday night as a compassionate, forgiving child of God and a “bold witness for the Lord.”
About 300 people filled the Victory Christian Center to bid farewell to Mrs. Messner, whose ties to the Inland area date to the 1980s when she and her then-husband Jim Bakker made the desert a favorite getaway. They bought their first desert house in 1984.
Mrs. Messner served as choir director, church organist and special soloist at the church. A color picture of her adorned a podium at the front.
Mrs. Messner died July 20 in Kansas City, Mo., after a long battle with inoperable cancer. She made her final appearance on “Larry King Live” a few days before her death, telling viewers that she couldn’t swallow food and weighed only 65 pounds.
At the service, many remembered Mrs. Messner for making the flea market circuit in the Coachella Valley, where she invariably stopped and prayed for everyone who came to her and said they were troubled.
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She was also remembered for always having a kind word for a harried waitress or anyone she encountered on her famed shopping sprees in local department stores.
Sadly, Tammy Faye was picketed by you-know-who, too:
“Before the service, about 10 protesters from a Baptist church in Kansas stood at an intersection on Bob Hope Drive carrying placards criticizing Mrs. Messner because of her personal life and her well-known acceptance of gay people.
“About 18 people staged a counter-protest across the street.”
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