You will not believe what the Westboro Baptist Nuts have done now...

[LiberalHeart]

Recently in Ohio a drunk driver got on the highway going the wrong way and wiped out five members of a Maryland family returning home after visiting family in Michigan over the holidays. Four of them were kids, including one that was only 2 months old. The Baptist nutcases that like to protest at military funerals protested at this family's memorial service -- saying the accident was just God's way of getting even with the state for a recent court ruling:

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080108/NEWS14/456507462

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. I'm not surprised.

It's really no different than protesting Matthew Shepard.

[NoPasaran]

2. I can never understand

Why these "people" are so convinced that God is a total vindictive asshole.

[northzax]

16. of course God is a vindictive asshole

after all, man was made in His image, and we are mean, petty, vindictive assholes (as a general rule) so why not the big guy?

[redqueen]

3. That family is certifable.

[rateyes]

9. No, actually they're certified...

they've got the papers...notarized, and everything.

[youthere]

4. Seriously..do Phelps and his family have personal bodyguards?

I can'not imagine that no one has tried to assault or kill them by now.

[rateyes]

7. They have. That's how he remains financed...

sues those who assault him or anyone in his group.

If I were to attack him, he wouldn't have standing to sue (or do anything else, either.)

[backscatter712]

11. That's how they make their money.

They go out on their protests, deliberately seeking to piss off as many people as they can.

Sure enough, someone will go do something stupid - making threats, pushing, shoving, assault and battery.

Several members of the Phelps clan are lawyers, and their members have lots of cameras ready to videotape people who assault them. They'll sue your ass off, take everything you've got, then use your money to fund more of their lunacy.

If you encounter these assholes, don't be stupid. That's exactly what they want.

[krispos42]

29. Well, then...

that just means that the order has to be adjusted, thats all

[Kansas Wyatt]

31. Yes, I was in Topeka working on a job in 2000.

Some co-workers just happened to pass Phelps group on the sidewalk, and a few out of the group immediately tried to start some shit for NO reason at all, other then they just passed their pathetic protest.

[RoadRage]

5. Why hasn't anyone tried to kill these people?

I'm serious? I live in Omaha, NE - and they were here protesting the funerals of the people who were killed in the "Mall Masacare" last month.. chanting outside of funerals of people who still couldn't comprehend what had happend.

If i'm a juror sitting on the jury of a husband who just lost his wife to a tragic incident like this, and he walks out of the funeral totally overcome with greif.. walks over and shoots those protesters and then says he was temporarily insane when he did..

I VOTE NOT GUILTY! These people are playing with fire.. and i'll be happy when someone actually burns them.

[rateyes]

6. So, God uses a drunk driver

to get even with the state of Ohio by killing off a car filled with children?

That's one sick bastard of a god that Phelps worships.

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. Do they even listen too the words they spew?

:puke:

[distantearlywarning]

8. I'm a staunch believer in free speech.

But I gotta say that these wackos have been the only group to ever seriously make me reconsider my position.

And I think it's really amazing that they have the power to unite both the right and left in this country, if only in a paroxym of mutual loathing for Phelps' little band of assholes.

I'm still not going to advocate that Westboro Baptist be prevented from doing what they do. But let's just say I wouldn't cry too much if the universe/God/fate shoved their caravan off the road into a very deep chasm on the way to one of their protests.

[sinkingfeeling]

10. Proving that the Phelps' have absolutely no education. They can't figure out that

Toledo isn't in either Penn. or Maryland.

[Buzz Clik]

12. The Phelps family no longer has an agenda. They have been downgraded to attention whores.

[Blue Diadem]

14. That's just awful.

That poor surviving father, he's lost so many in his family and then to have to deal with nutcases like the Phelps clan.

Thanks for the link LH. I missed it when I read the Blade this morning.

[LiberalHeart]

18. It wasn't there this morning; added recently.

[Blue Diadem]

19. Ah yes, I see the service was this morning. n/t

[DinahMoeHum]

15. Odds are, at least half of Phelps's grandkids are those he sired himself.

Just asking.

:evilgrin:

[LiberalFighter]

17. This is where the media needs to do there job.

Write the most unflattering story about them without the media ending up in court. And make sure it gets into every newspaper in the country.

By unflatteringly, I mean to the point that everyone in the public would despise and hate this group.

[Quantess]

21. The media doesn't need to put an unflattering spin on them.

The most objective portrayal would still make 98.9% of the population despise this group. The remaining 1% would merely disapprove.

[LiberalFighter]

28. For those that read the newspaper

[0rganism]

20. Phelps and the Westboro Baptists are (part of) God's punishment for humanity...

...for allowing religious fanatic assholes to take zealous advantage of their neighbors.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

22. Thanks, but if I had to have a god, I'd prefer one that wasn't so fond of murder.

[Smith_3]

23. Who finances these people??

Seriously, they had to pay an eleven million dollar jury award? And could do so just like that? How the hell to they get all that cash? It can't be all from sueing people that tried to kick their asses... :wtf:

[Kucinich4America]

24. So, who was the "fag" that God "hates" in this case?

Since Phelps always uses God's alleged hatred of "fags" as his excuse for everything. So this woman and her four children were "fags" and God used some drunken piece of shit as His instrument of "wrath"?? Is that it, Fred?? :wtf:

I hope God sends the next drunk driver into a herd of your asshole family picketers.

[readmoreoften]

32. And remember: the next 'fag' they come after may well be you.

Homophobia destroys straight lives too.

[xchrom]

25. the phelps family: -- the # 1 reason sons shouldn't reproduce with their mothers.

[DinahMoeHum]

26. . . .and fathers shouldn't reproduce with their daughters. . .

(see reply #15)

:evilfrown:

[MissB]

27. Thanks for the heads up. The mother killed was on a parenting message board

that I've frequented. I doubt they know about this yet. I'll pass along the info.

[ellie]

30. I didn't know

these fuckheads were in my town! And I missed them!