So the Westboro Baptist pukes came to WV to trample all over the memory of the 29 coal miners we lost, and they received a rowdy reception:
Other states might stage peaceful counter-protests or sing songs about unity, but you pricks come to WV spewing your bile and we’ll follow you around making large farty sounds and have our rednecks with mullets and big dips of Copenhagen scream bible verses at you while threatening you and telling you to get back home. Get your weak shit out of here.
That’s just how we roll here. And this was nothing compared to Game Day. At least here, everyone was sober.
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Terry
I hate Illinois Nazis.
Xecky Gilchrist
What is with those Westboro people?
demkat620
That is nothing short of awesome!
I especially liked the woman who was yelling “I love catholics and jews, I love everybody!”
Way to chase those freaks back to Kansas.
birthmarker
Go West Virginians! You rock!
Cacti
If some aggrieved family member was to punch Fred Phelps in the mouth, I can’t imagine a jury voting to convict.
Short Bus Bully
We tend to forget it sometimes, especially on this blog, but there is a great side to the redneck population and a strong nose for bullshit and a willing desire to confront that bullshit with thrown beer bottles and the like.
That was good to see.
Punchy
Please note what their ultimate goal is with these protests –they are praying that somebody assualts them or somehow breaks teh law in the course of the counter-protest, and then they sue the fucking shit outta that person. Almost everyone in that inbred group is a lawyer. And they know exactly what they’re allowed to do and the counter-protesters are not….
dmsilev
When they showed up here in the hallowed halls of academia (because we unleashed the unholy terror of B’rack Ob-ama unto the world), they were greeted by a combination of jeering fratboys (yes, we have some) and people holding up signs saying “God hates shrimp”. And a whole line of cops, both city and university, making sure that nobody got close enough to take a swing at them and provoke a lawsuit.
dms
Bob K
I for one would like to see a smack down of Fred Phelps. Seriously – make it a pay per view event and donate all the proceeds to the families he’s screwed with. The last time I saw crazy like his – someone was screaming – “BURN WITCH BURN!!! Kind of like Sarah Wailin’ or Michelle Bachamnn Bat Shit Crazy Overdrive. Rant Off – Carry On.
Linda Featheringill
Wonderful! Bravo!
What we can learn from this is that being obnoxious can be effective. I can be most unpleasant. Maybe I will use that tactic.
Actually, though, the actions of the WV folks were obnoxious and rude and just a little be aggressive and 100% beautiful!
Eric U.
I’ve never heard of Westboro going after a counter-protester. They are hoping for some kind of official government repression. That’s where they’ve made all their money.
Cacti
@Punchy:
Two words…
Jury Nullification
dmsilev
@Cacti:
It’s been tried. In fact, the Phelps clan *hopes* that people try it. It’s how they fund themselves. Provoke people to attack, and then sue for damages.
If you are ever in the same area as Phelps and his spawn, stick to mockery.
dms
TenguPhule
Sadly, there were no casualties.
Athenae
That was the fucking BOMB. Do not fuck with college kids. They will OWN you.
I especially liked the fratboys singing and dancing to that coming-out song in their underwear.
You know, maybe these WBC nitwits are onto something. They inspire the counter-demonstrators to reveal to us that not all human beings suck.
A.
Will
@Cacti:
I’m afraid there is a whole lot more that could be done to them before a jury would convict.
Dr. Squid
They’re getting followed around with their own theme music – a big plastic horn going “Wah wah waaaaaah”.
MattF
My touchy-feely side is saying that it must suck to be Fred Phelps, and my ‘other’ side is kinda pleased about that.
asiangrrlMN
That’s fucking awesome. Man. I have a huge smile on my face watching this.
@MattF: I like to say I’m sympathetic for people and their shit until they start taking it out on others–then my sympathy ends.
Robyn
I do feel bad for the poor little kids who get brainwashed into this junk. I wonder if any of them grow up and defect to become reasonable, honorable citizens?
General Egali Tarian Stuck
This here ain’t Kansas Dorothy/
bkny
they were in des moines over the weekend too. who the hell pays for all their travel?
500 at Drake counter gay-
marriage protesters
By CLARK KAUFFMAN • [email protected] •
April 11, 2010
A family of six carrying signs that read “God hates
fags” faced more than 500 counter-protesters
singing “All You Need Is Love” on the Drake
University campus early Saturday.
…
The family of Fred Phelps, founder of the
controversial Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka,
Kan., was in Des Moines to picket the university for
hosting a symposium on same-sex marriage.
Waving signs that read, “Fags are beasts” and “God
hates Jews,” the Phelps family assembled on the
south side of University Avenue at 7:40 a.m., while
the counter-protesters – for the most part – stayed
on the north side with signs that read, “Drake rejects
hate” and “My God loves everyone.”
The Westboro contingent included Sara Phelps, 28,
and two of her cousins, ages 9 and 13, both of
whom were wearing sweatshirts emblazoned with
“JewsKilledJesus.com.”
desmoinesregister.com/article/20100411/NEWS/4110347/-1/archive/500-at-Drake-counter-gay-marriage-pro…
Barry
It’s good – not as good as a ‘family BBQ’, with the Phelps family as the ‘guests of honor’, but it’s a start.
Mark S.
I knew this church basically consisted of Fred Phelps’ family, but I didn’t realize these assholes made their children carry hate signs for them. One little girl looked like she was about 4 years old.
These people are 11 dimensional evil.
QrazyQat
You let a WVa jury see that “Thank God for dead miners” sign and just try to get 12 of them to convict anyone for any kind of assault on Phelps’ crew.
JD Rhoades
That was fucking beautiful.
dmsilev
@Athenae: Amusingly, that episode made it into the Westboro Wikipedia article:
(more detail, including pictures, here)
Edit: Video
dms
fucen tarmal
they are uniters, not dividers.
SiubhanDuinne
The best sign? *GOD HATES SIGNS* Made me laugh, it did.
asiangrrlMN
@bkny: Apparently, they make their money off all the court cases. Sickening, I think.
@SiubhanDuinne: Where was that? I missed it.
Mark S.
Does Fred ever show up to these things, or is he too big of a coward?
LuciaMia
Simple. In their atrophied brains, any tragedy is due to this country being too easy on the ‘Gay.’
West Virginians., today the country salutes you.
dmsilev
@Mark S.: He certainly used to. Dunno if he still does or whether he leaves it to his family.
dms
Bob K
@ bkny – why of course – Rupert Murdoch is picking up the tab for their travel expenses. These are HIS kind of people.
SiubhanDuinne
@asiangrrlMN: click on John’s *they received a rowdy reception.* Still picture, not part of video.
BTW, did you see the Alan Rickman link I posted for you last night?
DBrown
Both sides have a right to protest but violence is wrong – as the old saying “I may not agree with what you are saying but I will fight to (
the death…. for those f’ers, no way) give you the right to speak.”JenJen
Never thought I’d see “that’s just how we roll here” in the context of West Virginia, but you go get those fucking Westboro fuckers, Mountaineers.
I’ll buy every last damned one of you a drink.
ETA: Jesus, they make the kid carry the “GOD LOVES DEAD MINERS” sign? Someone give me a baseball bat and a torch.
Violet
Good for the people of West Virginia! Those Phelps people are such scum. I’m glad that more and more they are being mocked and run out of town. That man screaming at them in that thick WV accent was fantastic to see. Good for all those counter-protesters!
MattR
Love this quote from the article John linked to:
RedKitten
Good for West Virginia! Those miserable fuckers need to be run out of town on a rail on a regular basis.
Well, what they REALLY need is for the adults to be sent to jail and the kids sent to a psychiatrist for deprogramming, but I’ll settle for them being publicly jeered and mocked.
JGabriel
One of the signs in that video said, “Thank God for Dead Miners”. Repulsive.
On the other hand, I loved the young woman who shouted out, “I love Catholics! And Jews! I love EVERYONE!” Her, and the blonde at the beginning who turned to pose for the camera when she noticed it was pointed at her.
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Donald G
@Cacti:
Not in West “By God” Virginia.
Anne Laurie
@Xecky Gilchrist:
Dispassionately, they’re a family of grifters who’ve figured out that playing the RELIGION! ! ! card lets them get away with crap that would otherwise get them jailed. As others have said, the Phelps show up to harrass groups of innocents into attacking them, so that they can sue for damages. That’s how the Phelps make a living — harrassing people. If they weren’t using an only-slightly-exaggerated form of Wholesome American Xtianity(tm) as their “assault weapon”, Fred Phelps and his core kinfolk would have been institutionalized long ago, and the rest of the tribe would have moved on to pigeon drops and phishing scams. Calling them cultists is an insult to those cultists who actually believe in the crap they peddle; Phelps and his unfortunate spawn are just using the First Amendment to suck money out of innocents in an unusually
creativebelligerent fashion.JGabriel
@RedKitten:
Where does Westboro get the money to fly their people to all of these tragedies? Who the hell funds this shit?
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HRA
Awesome! I am filled with admiration and love for WV.
Tara the antisocial social worker
Best way I’ve ever seen these idiots handled is a Phelps-a-thon. Get people to pledge x amount of money for every hour that the hatemongers demonstrate, payable to the local GLBT community center, or some other appropriate charity (like a fund for the miners’ families).
Dave C
Since this thread is about assholes, maybe this isn’t OT:
Per GOS, John Derbyshire outs himself as a racist asshole.
PaulW
@Xecky Gilchrist:
They want the attention. That’s all it really is. Their hatred of gays is merely the excuse. Harassing grieving families is a surefire way to get the camera crews on you.
RedKitten
Ooh, that’s a great idea, Tara!
Kristine
@SiubhanDuinne:
Alan Rickman?
::puppy beg::
::big eyes::
mr. whipple
Jeebus, if I never hear the name Tiger Woods again I’ll be happy as a clam.
joe from Lowell
A few years ago, the Westboro circus came to Massachusetts, to protest high school graduations in cities and towns that had gay-straight alliances in their high schools.
First, they went to Lexington, where they were met by Lexingtonian counter-protesters, who stood on the Town Common and then, with great and somber dignity, turned as one and silently stood with their backs to the Fred Phelps activists. I think this choice of response tells us a great deal about the good people of Lexington.
Then, they came to Lowell. When the Lowell Police Department (who understand their city’s populace very well) heard about this, they places a row of police with riot gear facing the protesters, then a six-foot chain link fence, then another six-foot chain link fence, and then another row of police with riot gear facing the much larger group of counter-protesters. I think that this, too, tells us a great deal about the people of Lowell.
Persia
@PaulW: They also seem to pay their bills by suing people who snap and ‘violate their rights.’
KCinDC
“NOTE: The Ku Klux Klan, LLC. has not or EVER will have ANY connection with The ‘Westboro Baptist Church’. We absolutely repudiate their activities.”
MattR
@Tara the antisocial social worker: Absolutely. The WBC crew does not care a bit about the counter protests or the vitriol shouted at them. If anything they seem to get off on it (check out the woman about 1 min in). The only problem is that, as Anne Laurie stated above, these people don’t actually care about the things they claim to represent so I am not so sure that they will care if a local GLBT group gets money as long as the WBC group gets attention.
KDP
I had tears of joy in my eyes as I watched the good people of West Virginia heckle and jeer the WBC out of Charleston. We need to see this type of ridicule and heckling every time the WBC makes an appearance.
Good for the 500 in Iowa, too.
Peter J
The assholes picketed the 2006 Sago Mine disaster too.
donnah
My mom and dad were “back home” in Beckley for the weekend and said one of the Phelp’s clan was in a local restaurant and starting spouting off. One of the locals asked him to leave, he wouldn’t, and the local guy punched him right in the nose.
I can’t even begin to imagine how those people think. I’m not a violent person, but I think I might punch one of them myself.
Lisa K.
Obama will never bring right and left together like Fred Phelps and his minions can. DIAF, you assholes.
Lisa K.
@Dave C:
Yeah, tell us something we don’t know…
MikeJ
@LuciaMia:
And this is different from Pat Robertson how? He’s a respected leader of the Republican party.
SiubhanDuinne
@Kristine #51: I posted this in the wee hours of the morning at the ttag-end of the Catnip Cleaning thread. Haven’t checked but I imagine it’s still up on the NYT site. Cross-posted from Tunch Can’t Quite Reach His ,ether Bits:
This is O/T and it’s actually mostly for asiangrrlMN — I figure if she shows up tonight she’ll head straight for the TUUUUUNCHIE! thread :-)
Anyhow, grrl, wanted to let you know that the NYTimes has a really interesting article on Alan Rickman as theatre director. As a fellow Rickmaniac, I’m sure you’ll enjoy it.
The only link I can pull up is for the mobile version and I’m not sure whether it works on a regular laptop or desktop computer but it’s mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=577248&f=63
In case it doesn’t work, the piece is in the Arts section with the title *Alan Rickman Directs Strindberg’s ‘Creditors’ at BAM*
kid bitzer
still, fred phelps is right about one thing:
god hates figs.
nasty, seedy things. not a proper fruit at all. i can’t stand them.
which is odd, cause i actually love fig newtons. it’s all the newtons mixed in that makes the figs palatable.
JGabriel
@Dr. Squid:
Yes, I was thinking they deserve something more like several people with boomboxes, playing different different variants of noise all at the same time, i.e.: John Zorn’s Naked City on one box, one of Glenn Branca’s guitar symphonies on another, several others playing the skronkiest pieces from Yo La Tengo, Pavement, etc., a couple more playing Swedish death metal, and finally, four boxes playing The Flaming Lips Zaireeka, because you need a minimum of four to play it properly anyway. All simultaneously.
Sure, you’d need a crew of old punks, alt-DJ’s, and avant-gardists to pull it off, since no one else could stand the caterwaul (which is EXACTLY the point), but I’d be up for it, and I’m sure I’m not the only one.
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kommrade reproductive vigor
The farty horns are my second favorite. (Nothing can replace “God Hates Figs” signs.)
JGabriel
@kid bitzer:
You do realize that’s actual Newton, reaped from the dessicated corpse of Issac himself, right?
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Rosali
I love this video of WBC being run out of town by Univ of Chicago frat boys.
KCinDC
@JGabriel, nowadays I think they’re made with Wayne.
Bad Horse's Filly
@joe from Lowell: That is a perfect. Just perfect. And really, if you’ve lived for any amount of time in the great Commonwealth of MA, you know this to be true.
@Anne Laurie: Best explanation I’ve ever read of these lower than pond scum-ers.
Annie
@Dave C:
LOL…Has anyone told Derbyshire that Jesus probably was black? He mostly certainly did not look like a white surfer boy from California, or a white farm boy from the mid-west.
kid bitzer
@67–
only if you buy the right brand. your store brand “fig cookies” can have all sorts of cut-rate stuff mixed in.
if you want genuine shreds of zombie-isaac newton, you’ve got to buy “anubisco” brand fig newtons.
the trouble is, zombie isaac newton is constantly arguing with the choco-leibniz biscuits about who invented calculus first.
but, man, that dude is tasty!
also, @66–were there really signs saying that? i thought i was just spoofing, but it’s far better if they were really there.
Mike Kay
29 miners were killed?
Well, the government that does least, governs best.
Bruce (formerly Steve S.)
Even when I disagree with a religion’s conclusions (i.e. all of them) I can usually understand the internal logic. I understand why a large organization would want to cover up endemic child abuse. I can even understand why an individual might think that flying an airplane into a skyscraper could further his religious agenda. But I’ve always had a hell of a time, pardon the expression, trying to wrap my head around Westboro Baptist’s thinking. Their god’s actions just don’t make any damned sense, not even by the standards of the genocidal maniac of the Old Testament.
JGabriel
@Peter J:
So they chose West Virginia just because they wanted re-use the signs? Cheap assholes.
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JGabriel
@KCinDC: Well, yeah, the generic ones.
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JGabriel
@MikeJ:
Robertson doesn’t personally show up to harass people at funerals.
First nice thing I’ve ever said about Robertson.
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kid bitzer
come to think of it, it’s pretty weird that the two inventors of calculus can both be found in the cookie aisle.
and why no cauchy-chip cookies or bolzano biscotti? why no fudge-striped fouriers? doesn’t weierstrasse deserve his own keebler creation?
Bauhausler
If their aim is to be notorious they’re doing a great job. Everyone knows Fred Phelps and Westboro. There are only a few of them but they get enormous media attention wherever they go. Imagine if all of that energy and talent was directed at something positive instead of the most vile sort of hatred. But that’s just a DFH talking…
Donald G
@donnah:
No matter what the laws on assault and battery say, in Southern West Virginia, the default solution is often, in the words of the locals, “a good ass-kickin'”.
Phelps might press charges, Phelps might win a judgment, Phelps might even win damages, but he’d be unlikely to collect those damages in West Virginia. “When you ain’t got nothing, you ain’t got nothing to lose.” (See, there’s that Appalachian fatalism again.)
Given local history, if there’s anyplace in the country where Phelps’s antics might succeed in provoking violence, it’s West Virginia. I don’t think “God loves dead miners” would go over particularly well in Mingo and Logan Counties.
Down and Out of Sài Gòn
I really, really, disagree, John. I think the video shows the high level of courtesy displayed by your average West Virginian. Not one punch thrown? Bloody hell.
I’m trying to imagine how one of those “Thank God for Dead Miners” would go down after your average mining disaster in Thatcher’s UK. Back then, just being a scab laborer would earn you a few rocks in your direction, if you were lucky and the striking miners couldn’t get their hands on you. Someone walking around praising industrial accidents? Euugh.
MikeJ
@JGabriel:
He’s a got a TV show. He can do it from home.
JGabriel
@kid bitzer:
I laughed. And yes, some of the counter-demos have featured GOD HATES FIGS signs.
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Tara the antisocial social worker
MattR – I have no idea if they actually care about the gay stuff or if they just want attention. I’m inclined to think the gay hatred is real, just because GLBT people were a less sympathetic target when Phelps & company started their wacko protests a couple of decades ago. Back then, they’d have had a better chance at notoriety by attacking Jews or Presbyterians or something. But who knows what goes on in such sick minds?
Still, a Phelps-a-thon turns a crappy situation into a net positive for a worthy cause, so that and massive ridicule are the best response I can think of.
Tara the antisocial social worker
Of course Pat Robertson doesn’t harass gay people at funerals. A hurricane might hit him!
moe99
It’s really sad to see the little children WBC uses as foils in their demonstrations. They don’t stand a chance. To grow up in that festering muck of hatred must do horrible things to their psyche.
SiubhanDuinne
@Lisa K #60:
Fred Phelps: Broder’s hero.
MattR
@Tara the antisocial social worker:
I agree completely. It may not be the perfect solution, but it is the best the law will allow.
Lisa
I fucking love that guy in the orange striped pants.
Jay in Oregon
@Robyn:
The wonderful world of Wikipedia lists four family members as “estranged”: Mark Phelps, Katherine Phelps, Nathan “Nate” Phelps, and Dorotha Bird.
I would like to think that it was because they have renounced their father’s hate-filled worldview…
Bauhausler
Wouldn’t apples be more appropriate than figs for a Newton cookie ?
Jay in Oregon
I love the sign at 0:45 in the video, on the right-hand side.
It seems familiar for some reason…
Honus
I don’t get it. Were they protesting because they thought the dead miners were fags? Or what?
gbear
@Bauhausler:
You can go try one and see.
ChrisNBama
Does Kansas have a “Child Services” Division? I saw these little kids parading around holding up those hateful signs.
I mean, is it that difficult to make a case that these kids shouldn’t be raised in that atmosphere?
MattR
@ChrisNBama: I would imagine that it is actually pretty difficult since the WBC will play the religion card (and there does not appear to be any physical harm being done to the kids).
TooManyJens
@JGabriel:
I keep picturing Blank Reg.
The Sad Clam
@mr. whipple:
Easy for you to talk.
CaseyL
The Phelps’ are basically a very small, very specialized crime family. They have one shtick: behaving in a particularly abhorrent fashion, in the hopes that someone will attack them. Then they sue for damages. They target funerals because people in deep grief are less likely to be able to control themselves.
They recently won such a case against a municipality that banned their presence, getting about $20,000.
They’re probably subsidized by some deep-pocketed RW sponsor and the lawsuit money is gravy.
I would love to see someone really investigate this collection of garbage masquerading as human beings.
BDeevDad
@Tara the antisocial social worker: I agree. There are folks that will even help you set it up.
phelps-a-thon.com/Home.html
mai naem
I love this clip. They pulled this off just the right way.
Nellcote
About Fred Phelps including info from the two sons that left.
maus
Stop reporting on them and they’ll stop doing their little inbred protests.
They have more than enough money to do this forever as long as they keep getting the media attention they crave.
Josh
MarkJ, Let me give this a shot: Pat Robertson’s theology is more or less what one sees in some of the nastier prophets or epistles: “God is showing you what He can do, so you’d better shape up lest He keep on punishing you.” Yes, 9/11 happened because we weren’t oppressive enough, and God’s giving us a chance to get our repression on. D’Souza and Falwell (whose funeral the WBC picketed) are on the same wavelength.
As Shirley Phelps-Roper has explained, the WBC’s “hate-based Christianity” does not seek to proselytize, since its Calvinist principles tell its adherents that they’re the only ones who’ll ever be saved. Their public antics, unlike Robertson’s, don’t purport to be about changing anyone’s mind or conduct: they’re just celebrating the fact that they’re saved and we’re damned. Your usual fundy may think s/he’ll get to do that once s/he’s in Heaven; the WBC is all about not waiting.
maus
@CaseyL:
Why do they need to be? Their operation doesn’t cost very much to run. They only need to pay for a few plane tickets, fast food, and a motel room for a night.
You seen to be overestimating the amount of time and money invested for every person counterprotesting or exposing their loathsomeness to a wider audience.
sloan
I had a little blowout with those freaks at the Obama Inauguration.
Not pretty.
lucslawyer
Here’s to the true heroes…those who go deep into the earth, risking their lives to power this country….
nodakfarmboy
@gbear: They don’t make those anymore. I’ve been looking around for them for years. I loved those things when I was a kid. Then again, I was also a fat kid. Sometimes, losing things you love can be for the better.
RIP Apple Newtons…
Keith G
@Punchy:
Some of us are rather judgment proof.
Fern
that was … heartwarming.
MattR
@Keith G: I had this same thought initially. But from what I understand about the Phelpses, not only would they sue the individual who broke the law but they would go after anyone who might be condsidered an organizer of a counter protest, law enforcement authorities and any other entity that is even tangentially related. The goal is to get a financial settlement from one or more of those entites that they sue, not to win the lawsuits themselves (and apparently they dont have that great a record if the defendant does not blink)
GlenInBrooklyn
John,
Thanks for one of the bright spots of my day. Not only bad speach being out-done by better speach, but fun speach as well.
Tara the antisocial social worker
BDeevDad – that is awesome! I had no idea that site exited. I’ll bookmark it.
TheOtherWA
That was beautiful. What a great way to end the weekend with a smile. Thank you for posting this. And a big thank you to those fine WV folks who shamed those whiny ass punks into running away with their tails between their legs. Legally, to boot!
Mnemosyne
I can’t quite tell, but it looks like the people with the big WV umbrellas are there to block the Phelps people from view? They seem to be at the wrong angle to try and block any rain.
That actually seems to be a pretty good strategy — it’s not illegal for private citizens to peacefully block others from being viewed as far as I know.
asiangrrlMN
@SiubhanDuinne: I love you truly, deeply, madly for this link. I did not see it last night, but I have it bookmarked now. Yum yum yum.
I don’t particularly give a shit why Phelps and his clan do this; It’s just beyond the pale.
Mnemosyne
@Tara the antisocial social worker:
Not if their aim was to goad people into punching them and then suing them for damages. Who do you think would be more likely to be driven to violence, a Presbyterian or an ACT-UP volunteer walking out of the funeral of one of his/her friends?
JCT
@dmsilev:
My daughter is a student at U of C and was at the counter-protest, they were planning it for days, but didn’t know what the frat was up to ahead of time. She said it was hilarious as it unfolded. A far cry from the frats when I was a student…
They managed to turn the protest into a festival and raised over $500 for charity.
Boy those Phelps people are really disgusting, I’m amazed no one has taken a shot at them yet.
JT
BenA
Read Nate Phelps’, atheist and estranged son of Fred Phelps, web site… very informative and gives you a good look into everything. Fred Phelps has always been insane… even when he was a civil rights lawyer. It was always about the paycheck not about defending people.
JSpencer
Good for WV! Those people are awesome!!!!!!!!!!
DCJack
I can’t believe those Westboro pricks brought kids as part of this.
Actually… I can believe it. But wow, talk about assholes.
mike
I, too, am surprised that Fred Phelps’ antics haven’t resulted in a well-planned and cold-blooded first degree murder.
mako
The Blue Ridge Mts are not in WVa. The guys who wrote that song had never visited WVa. John Denver’s real name was Ducenfeffer.
The Golux
@nodakfarmboy: For the ultimate fig newton, try Fig Newmans, made by Newman’s Own. As with most of their stuff, theirs is better than the original.
Sandra Lindberg
Way to go West Virginia!
When they came to Vermont, the signs read: “Get your hate out of our state.” These Westboro people are NOT Christian.