Hundreds Counterprotest (Kansas Gay Haters in NY)

[Snellius]

SOUTH NYACK — Hundreds carried placards and joined in song last night to express their displeasure with the nine members of a controversial Christian church from Kansas who vocally declared that God hates gays.

Counterprotesters had signs that read, "Nyack Thrives on Positive Energy," "Hate Kills" and "Click your heels 3 times, 'cause there is no place like home. Go back to Kansas." About 500 people stood behind barriers to await the arrival of the contingent from Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., who had announced their plans to protest outside St. Paul's United Methodist Church last night and in front of Nyack Village Hall this morning.

St. Paul's holds services for lesbians, gays, bisexual and transgendered people at 6 p.m. each Sunday.
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When the protesters arrived and took their places behind barricades, the counterprotesters broke into a spirited rendition of "Going to the Chapel," following it up with songs including "We Shall Overcome."

In response to one line of that song, "We shall overcome someday," the Westboro church members — three of whom were Phelps' daughters — replied also in song and to the same music, "You are going to Hell someday."

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[freetobegay]

1. And to think Dororthy was from Kansas.

Go figure!

[sniffa]

2. 1 thing i hate about the WBC

is their thinLy-veiLed homophobia. i wish they'd just come out say it.

[Supormom]

3. These people are sick!

<< Brandon Smith, a Hillcrest resident and a volunteer firefighter, was outraged at some of the placards Phelps' group displayed.

"Hey, little girl, I lost a friend Sept. 11, put that sign down," he said, directing his comment to a girl whose sign thanked God for the terror attacks.

"They've got a lot of nerve," Smith said, remarking that many of the police officers who were there to maintain order may also have lost loved ones in the attacks. >>

So, they have little girls carrying signs thanking God for September 11th? How disturbing.

[xchrom]

4. while i loathe the gay haters i can see

it's the ones higher up the food chain that i can't see that really bother me.

[Cooley Hurd]

5. God hates Fred Phelps...

...what a complete a-hole. He certainly had some balls to show up in Nyack (just outside NYC)... :grr:

[CO Liberal]

6. EVERYONE SHould Hate Fred Phelps

He's a worthless turd of a human being.

[Occulus]

7. I don't hate the man.

I do, however, have a great deal of pity for him.

What a pitiful, pitiful example of a human being.

[alanw]

11. For more on Phred...

Here is the complete text of a fascinating book about him - basically his biography. I had thought it was written by one of his kids but on looking back I see that it was written by a reporter with the help of a couple of his kids.

http://www.rslevinson.com/gaylesissues/features/collect/phelps/bl_phelpsmain.htm

[newyawker99]

18. Hi alanw!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Roaming]

8. These people can call themselves anything they want, I guess,

but they are not Christians. Sickening.

[CO Liberal]

9. If Jesus Were To Come Back Today....

...I'm sure he'd hit Fred Phelps upside the head.

[Roaming]

13. Well, for certain Phelps is in for a VERY BIG surprise on judgment day

[CO Liberal]

15. Especially If It Turns Out.....

...that a subset of teh Twelve Apostles is Heaven's equivalent of the "Fab Five" on "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy".

:-)

[Dark]

10. You both may be hated, but there is a big difference

"What goes through my mind is that we're absolutely, 100 percent right," she said, adding: "As they hated Jesus, they'll hate us."

Somebody should tell this egotistical virago that Jesus was a liberal who was abominated for wanting to spread tolerance, love, peace, and forgiveness. The people who hated him were fat cat conservatives who thought that they were doing God's will. They were able to quote the Bible to punish Jesus.
She and her disgusting coterie of misanthropic vermin, conversely, are detested for something very different. Indeed, they are despised because their message is the antithesis of Jesus'. Where he preached tolerance, they preach bigotry. They do not foster love, they foment odium and hatred. They were GLAD that 9/11 occurred. They consider war, not as a revolting last resort, not even a necessary evil, but as a beautiful part of humanity that allows them to claim that Christians make up a larger percentage of the world's population afterwards. They disgust me. They. . . there is no word within our tongue which can describe the sheer disgust I feel for these demagogues.

[Tommy_Douglas]

12. I agree with Kathy...

Its a shame in such a country in this day in age there are still knuckle dragging pieces of shit like this that get attention.

[Kool Kitty]

14. These people are beyond ignorant and repulsive.

What's up with the sign that says, "Thank God for September 11"? What does that have to do with it? Unbelievable.

[Bark Bark Bark]

16. The 9/11 Sign?

It's a means of getting anger pointed in their direction, and these sick ****s will take any attention they can get. There are accounts of the Phelps driving home from their revolting displays at funerals, which describe the kids as having their heads stuck out the windows like the dogs they are, screaming obscenities at anyone they pass. Why the lot of them haven't been found beaten to death and tied to a barbed-wire fence is beyond me.

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[Fovea]

19. I think I can speak for Kansas when I say

that we would be ok if they didn't come back.

Don't you guys have a big ass waterfall up there?
Go ahead and throw them overboard like a bag full of rocks.
Honestly, it's just fine by us.