Westboro Baptist Church picketers show up at Santorum’s Topeka event
Source: Washington Post
Posted at 03:32 PM ET, 03/09/2012
Westboro Baptist Church picketers show up at Santorums Topeka event
By Felicia Sonmez
TOPEKA, Kan. More than a dozen members of the Westboro Baptist Church showed up Friday afternoon outside a Rick Santorum campaign event here.
The picketers, who said they had come not to protest or support Santorum but rather to deliver their message, stood on the street outside the Great Overland Station, where the former Pennsylvania senator addressed a crowd of more than 200 people.
The Topeka-based church, which is classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League as a hate group, is known for its anti-gay protests at military funerals and other events.
Outside the Santorum campaign event, Westboro picketers held signs reading, Thank God for IEDs, God Hates the World and Not Blessed, Just Cursed. Several held anti-gay signs and one held a poster reading, Antichrist Obama.
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(2,657 posts)bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)The Westboro gang thinks all Catholics are going to hell.
wendylaroux
(2,925 posts)Do they usually say that at other protests?
Not for or against?
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)For the Phelps it's more about the attention than the cause.
Siwsan
(26,275 posts)Seems a good fit.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)RKP5637
(67,111 posts)get advice from them on which tactics to best use for persecution and suppression of minorities.
wendylaroux
(2,925 posts)they wanted advice from him.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)Great Caesars Ghost
(532 posts)MuseRider
(34,112 posts)I had no idea he was near here. I thought there was kinda a sleezy vibe today.
Gore1FL
(21,132 posts)Proud Public Servant
(2,097 posts)n/t
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)It was an awkward interview where he admitted to rather having Obama over Romney, Santorum or Newt.
Of course, then he tied it back to Obama being the Antichrist and needing to fulfill the prophecy, so...
onehandle
(51,122 posts)JI7
(89,252 posts)lastlib
(23,251 posts)saras
(6,670 posts)OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)They were recently protesting in Chardon, Ohio, at the funerals of the kids who died in the school shooting. Thankfully the media paid no attention to them (that I saw anyway.)
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)These two are made for each other!!! What an irony Mr. Homophobe frothy fecal matter and the gay haters come together!!!
rtassi
(629 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)they fogot, "have a nice day."
Kyad06
(127 posts)No just losers like you freaks
blue neen
(12,322 posts)Your post is a little confusing.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)Brietbart's funeral? just wondering..
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Sort of an honor amongst haters thing.
Turbineguy
(37,353 posts)the GOP
Crunchy Frog
(26,587 posts)OMFG!
Just the type for Sanctorectum.