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Harry Monroe

(2,935 posts)
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 11:46 AM Apr 2013

This is well beyond sick and the bounds of human decency!!

Let me be the first to say: WHAT THE FUCK!!!!


The Westboro Baptist Church (“WBC”) announced that they will be picketing the funerals of the victims of yesterday’s bombings in Boston.

Designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, WBC is characterized on their SPLC page as “arguably the most obnoxious and rabid hate group in America.”

WBC first made the announcement on their Twitter page posting:

BREAKING: Westboro Baptist Church to picket funerals of those dead by Boston Bombs! GOD SENT THE BOMBS IN FURY OVER FAG MARRIAGE! #PraiseGod
And they later posted the following press release on their website:

Westboro Baptist Church

(WBC Chronicles — Since 1955)

3701 S.W. 12th St. Topeka, Ks. 66604 785-273-0325 www.GodHatesFags.com @WBCSays

Religious Opinion & Bible Commentary on Current Events

Monday, April 15, 2013

NEWS RELEASE

(Background, photos, video, sermons, parodies & hymns – available free at www.GodHatesTheMedia.com, Blogs.SpareNot.com, www.SignMovies.com, www.JewsKilledJesus.com, www.GodHatesTheWorld.com & www.PriestsRapeBoys.com)

THANK GOD FOR THE BOSTON MARATHON BOMBS!


http://samuel-warde.com/2013/04/westboro-baptist-church-to-picket-the-boston-bombing-victims-funerals/
WBC TO PICKET THE FUNERALS OF THOSE KILLED BY THE BOMBING IN BOSTON, MA

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This is well beyond sick and the bounds of human decency!! (Original Post) Harry Monroe Apr 2013 OP
When are these monsters within human decency? get the red out Apr 2013 #1
I hate to say it, and I may get banned for saying this but... Harry Monroe Apr 2013 #5
They are right there with Dick get the red out Apr 2013 #9
They ought to be counter-protested rocktivity Apr 2013 #2
No, it's par for the course, for them. Brickbat Apr 2013 #3
They are utterly predictable pinboy3niner Apr 2013 #6
I think they will do it as long as people talk about it.... nessa Apr 2013 #4
Yep. Quit spreading their shit. Iggo Apr 2013 #8
WBC -- Beneath Nothing Blue Owl Apr 2013 #7
This message was self-deleted by its author Warren DeMontague Apr 2013 #10
Maybe they should be treated as suspects. Rex Apr 2013 #11
The Westboro Baptist Church are ghouls of the absolutely worst sort. nt Poll_Blind Apr 2013 #12

get the red out

(13,461 posts)
1. When are these monsters within human decency?
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 11:48 AM
Apr 2013

They are so consistently disgusting that I have Westboro fatigue at this point.

Harry Monroe

(2,935 posts)
5. I hate to say it, and I may get banned for saying this but...
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 11:52 AM
Apr 2013

....I would not shed a single tear or feel one ounce of sympathy if someone bombed their "church". I know this is an awful thing to say, but for me, the WBC is in the same category as Dick Cheney. Enough said....

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
6. They are utterly predictable
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 11:53 AM
Apr 2013

Except for showing up. Half the time they announce a protest...and then never appear.

nessa

(317 posts)
4. I think they will do it as long as people talk about it....
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 11:52 AM
Apr 2013

No one should accept or report on their press releases or give them any attention.

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