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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
Wed May 27, 2015, 05:13 PM May 2015

Westboro Baptist Church's bizarre feud with JK Rowling over the concept...

...of Dumbledore and Gandalf marrying.

http://www.newstatesman.com/media-mole/2015/05/westboro-baptist-churchs-bizarre-feud-jk-rowling-over-concept-dumbledore-and

JK Rowling has locked horns with famed hate speech aficionados the Westboro Baptist Church. And it's all gone a bit weird.

Following the Irish gay marriage referendum result, Rowling was prompted to suggest her creation, Dumbledore, can now get married to JRR Tolkien's equivalent elderly bearded wizard person, Gandalf.


My favorite part of this is towards the end, when WBC actually vows to PICKET the wedding...of a couple of fictional characters.

(The only thing that would make this better would be if Ms. Rowling had suggested that "Tinky Winky" should be maid-of-honor).
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