Phelps Clan Pickets Falwell Funeral

[stevedeshazer]

more @ link: http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/05/052207falwell.htm

(Lynchburg, Virginia) About a half dozen members of a Kansas church that denounces homosexuality protested Tuesday afternoon at the funeral of evangelist Jerry Falwell.

The members of Westboro Baptist Church carried placards accusing Falwell of being in league with gays and of cozying up to Israel.

The church, which operates the GodHatesFags Web site, had warned Lynchburg police in advance they were coming.

On its site Westboro, run by Rev. Fred Phelps, called Falwell, a "corpulent false prophet" and said he"spent his entire life prophesying lies and false doctrines like 'God loves everyone.'"

In attacking Falwell the church says he "warmly praised Christ-rejecting Jews, pedophile-condoning Catholics, money-grubbing compromisers, practicing fags like Mel White (of Souflorce), and backsliders like Billy Graham and Robert Schuler, etc."

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[madeline_con]

1. Fighting in the ranks.

:rofl:

[Ghost in the Machine]

8. Christian on Christian Crime!!

see what I said earlier? http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=940801&mesg_id=941034

This is who that Falwell follower was planning to blow up!

"Christian terrorist bomb plot thwarted - planned to bomb Falwell protestors!"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=940801&mesg_id=940801

[stevedeshazer]

16. You gotta admit...

...the "corpulent false prophet" line is a good one.

I can't believe I just agreed w/ Fred Phelps. :yoiks:

[Erika]

2. The only one worse than Falwell is Phelps

Two peas in a pod.

[slowry]

41. Has Phelps ever had anywhere near Falwell's power though? He seems pretty marginal to me. n/t

[Az]

3. They are seriously trying to put comedians out of business

I mean you can't make this stuff up.

[stevedeshazer]

9. Irony lives.

Jerry doesn't.

Fred's not too far behind.

Oops, he wouldn't like that double entendre.

[me b zola]

20. Butt I did!

:spray:

[stevedeshazer]

4. Only the Phelps klan could outhate Jerry Falwell

Unbelievable.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

5. fred phelps is a senile, lazy chickenshit

who never even shows up at his own protests anymore
he sends his dimwit family to do his work

[AlCzervik]

6. when Fred Phelps dies will his own church protest at his funereal?

you know these people are legitimately crazy because they think they're sane and their views are righteous, the Phelps people really are true believers, some scary folks.

[ComerPerro]

27. I assure you, I will be there

[Mad_Dem_X]

37. I for one will be doing the happy dance

when this fucker kicks the bucket.

[nealmhughes]

7. What will we do once Fred and his fellow travellers shuffle off their mortal coils?

What shall we do without the words of wisdom from the Focus on the Family Dude and the pancake one who owns the diamond mine? O, how shall the senile be bilked without the 700 Club and PTL to guide their checks?

Oh, there is a new crop in the making, I'm sure, but I do so miss the old school healings and glossalalia, though. Perhaps a public snake handling will soon be presented.

Earnest Angley! America needs you! Our late night infomericals are stale!

[Canuckistanian]

10. Oh, yeah! Earnest Angley.

The man who put the 'jelly' in 'evangelical'.

[Chulanowa]

48. Pancake?

If you mean Pat Robertson, he's more of a waffle man.

[Initech]

11. Wait... the Phelps clan considers one of the countries' most bigoted assholes as a false prophet?

The one guy in the entire country who's more of a gay hater than Phelps is, is considered a false prophet?

Oh this is too fucking funny! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[iamthebandfanman]

12. haha

thats good stuff.
weird to get joy from two people i care none for. i wrote phelps once just to let him know i was glad he was using small children in his protests...because it showed how WEAK his movement was.

its weird, i happened upon a christian radon station earlier today... i listened for a while because i like to see what the flock is learning for todays lesson.... and you know the host pretty much said the same thing about other christians... that the whole 'love everybody' notion is wrong and that the bible clearly says thats(in one way or another). and not because you are gay, or use drugs, or cheat on your wife, or a pedophile, or whatever it is that you do..but rather because we are all sinners and god ...and i quote... "Hates sinners" and apparently says so a few times in the bible....
so therefor, unless you have given your soul and life to god and asked for forgiveness for the awful human things that you do... ur gonna burn in hell...cause we are all guilty and hated by god unless we beg for it to be otherwise.

it was odd, cause i did kinda agree with some of the notions he had...
he went on to call out fake christians saying 'just because you go sit in church on sunday doesn't make you religious or forgiven' and said that you didnt have to go church to get forgiveness or worship (which is weird hearing an evangelist say frankly)

it made for an interesting car ride home, i must say...
mostly because i had just smoke copious amounts of marijuana tho, id imagine. ;)

p.s.
iamthebandfanman in noway endorses smoking pot and driving ;)

[stevedeshazer]

14. You must go STRAIGHT TO HELL

Do not pass GO. DO NOT PASS A DOOBIE.

I was following you. You were going 25 in a 45.

And, you didn't signal your turn into the Munchie Mart!

[iamthebandfanman]

21. noway

i totally had it on a good 10 minutes before i even made the lane change. i had a good laugh about it shortly after i turned off.
im just glad you didnt notice the windshield wipers going. there was a chance of rain, ya know.

;)

[XemaSab]

13. K&R

:D

[philosophie_en_rose]

15. Um. Phelps is seriously deranged.

Phelps mocking Falwell is as if Jeffrey Dahmer mocked Ted Bundy, because Bundy didn't eat people. It doesn't make Ted Bundy any less gruesome, but it certainly makes Dahmer look like a freaking ghoul.

Falwell was a corpulent false prophet, but attacking him for not being hateful enough is laughable.

And if God doesn't love everyone, why the hell would he love Phelps?

[Warpy]

17. Well, they're right about what Falwell was

Too bad they're wrong about everything else.

[LittleClarkie]

18. Ya ever think this guy was a parody?

Seems sometimes to crazy to be real.

[Nikki Stone1]

39. I think that is exactly what he is. It's political theater.

...

[Forkboy]

19. Is this on Pay Per View by any chance?

[entanglement]

31. LOL

:spray:

[me b zola]

22. Can we bury Falwell again tomarrow?

Today's burial almost gave enough comic relief to get us through the crappy-assed reality that we are living in.

Please, dig him up and bury him again. I'm sure there'll be more wingnuts to make the entertainment worth it, I want to see them all go off their nut :popcorn: :beer:

[Jamastiene]

29. If they forgot to drive the stake in, it just might become

a necessity. He may crawl out and start back with his crap again if they forgot the stake. The second time around is always so gruesome, but watching them eat their own is a refreshing change to the norm. :rofl: As long as they are hating on each other, they are not directing it toward the GLBT community.

[iamthebandfanman]

23. Whoa! it almost turned into a religious war!

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/22/va.bombarrest/index.html


but i keep forgetting.... christians dont do that sorta thing! kill each other with bombs! oh my no! not like those dirty evil muslims, gosh no! they arent terrorists too!
hahahaha

silly extremists.

[Swamp Rat]

24. LOLOLOL!!!! .... What a freak show!

:rofl: :beer: :popcorn:

[ComerPerro]

25. when did Falwell ever suggest that God loves everyone, LOL.

[MichaelHarris]

26. This is

better than a chick fight in pudding

[youthere]

44. Except its two wrinkled old fucks and there's no pudding.

[Spinzonner]

28. Sometimes you can't tell the bigots without a program

[maine_raptor]

30. Fred Phelps called it.

Falwell was a corpulent false prophet. Of course in my book, he spelled it wrong. Should have been "a corpulent false profit".

[krispos42]

32. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day

Phelps and his savants are lower than whale shit.

It's very disconcerting to be glad that Phelps was there.

Oh well, at least they arent's protesting the funeral of somebody actually important, like a fallen soldier.

[AnneD]

35. Kris-let's get it right (a ticket from the gramar police)...

it's snake shit...Phelps and his savants are lower than snake shit. You are being fined for improper use of a metaphor.

[LibertyLover]

40. Just my 2 cents, but I think that the use of whale shit

was a perfectly appropriate metaphor to use given the subject. After all, whale shit will sink a whole lot lower than snake shit can ever hope to, even if the snake's butt was held out over the Grand Canyon.

[AnneD]

46. Well not so....

it is eaten or disintegretes before it hits bottom. If it were sea floor worms, ok. Whales are sky creatures-if the sea were compared to the land-citations stands, fine set at 5 good deeds (that is giving you credit for the snake butt held over the Grand Canyon-nice visual).

[krispos42]

43. Oh, no, not the grammar police!!!

:-)

[tavalon]

33. Oh, that is rich

Ironic.

[tavalon]

34. Jon Stewart owes these folks

They're just writing his show for him.

[Nikki Stone1]

36. "corpulent false prophet"? (If Jerry had gone to Jenny Craig he would have been ok?)

This Phelps guy cannot be for real. It's so much political theater. Not sure what it's for: to create sympathy for a snake oil salesman that could put Elmer Gantry to shame or to delegitimize him, but either way, it's not for real.

[tjwash]

38. Phelps video on the protest

You Tube link to Phelps' rant here.

Linking this one in the interest of balance...

[LibertyLover]

42. Ohh, my ears and eyes!

Did Phelps actually say "all the evidence in compelling and irrefatable" instead of irrefutable? Of course since the subject was Falwell, "irrefatable" may work.

[fizzgig]

45. this is comedic gold

:rofl:

[Madspirit]

47. Wow the Irony

One difference is, to me it's obvious, Phelps is extremely mentally ill. I mean really, go to his site if you don't mind giving it "hits". The man is a stark raving lunatic and this comes from someone who is not just certifiable but actually certified...me. It's also my field of study. The man sounds less sane than some schizophrenic friends I have. Truly. No one thinks of him as credible.

Falwell, people actually listened to and followed. Phelp's entire church is make up of three intermarrying families. I think they suffer from folie a deux, which literally means "folly of two" but in the field of psychology it can be more than two and means a shared delusion. It is rare but really happens. Falwell had a facade of respectability among his ilk. Even most of the RW know that Phelps is a really sick man.

In other words, I think of Falwell as more dangerous.

...but I do love the irony of Falwell being picketed by a thundering loon of the RW fundies. That is just too funny.
Lee

[Madspirit]

49. I'll add a k&r

...because funny threads rarely get "Best" and this should.
Lee