Westboro church to picket Betty Ford funeral services

[babsbunny]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/07/westboro-church-to-picket-betty-ford-funeral-services/1?csp=34news

By Michael Winter, USA TODAY
Updated 58m ago

The fundamentalist and anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church has announced plans to picket funeral services in California and Michigan for former first lady Betty Ford, who died Friday at age 93.

The Grand Rapids Press reports that the small congregation, consisting mostly of family members of founder Fred Phelps, announced on its website that it will demonstrate because Ford divorced her first husband, then married the future president, Gerald Ford.

STORY: First ladies to attend Betty Ford's funeral

[fascisthunter]

1. sick fools

[customerserviceguy]

15. Not sick

Evil. Someday, they're going to protest the 'wrong' funeral, and the cops are going to hear that nobody saw anything...

[fascisthunter]

17. you know what...

I hope so

[derby378]

2. New Westboro sign: GOD HATES SOBER PEOPLE

Everybody booze up and riot!

[roamer65]

3. Fuck 'em.

[Booster]

4. God, I really hate these people. Hope they burn in Hell.

[Rick Myers]

5. Proof there is not bottom to the depth of human stupidity! nt

[murielm99]

6. Ignore them.

Take no pictures of them. Give them no publicity at all.

About a year ago, one of the motorcycle riders who protect soldiers' funerals died himself. He was a former local man who lived about 75 miles from here.

The Westboro idiots loved it that he died. They showed up at his funeral. They were, very politely, kept a couple of blocks away. We saw nothing in the papers. My son said he saw one small picture of one of those idiots, but it was in the background of another photo, and you could not even read the sign.

That is the way to do it.

[Morning Dew]

7. God, I hope they picket my funeral someday.

They're so far out the other side that they're quite entertaining. With them around, I bet my friends would pay admission to get into my funeral.

( I understand that the WBC really upsets many people and I mean no disrespect)

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Get buried face down so they can kiss your ass. n/t

[Morning Dew]

10. I plan on cremation

so they could kiss my ash.

I think the WBC has added four members in the last 10 years and one of the four has left the church.

Calvinists don't really add members very easily.

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. Why don't they picket Osama bin Laden's final resting place?

Dress 'em up in lead weights and shove every damn one overboard.

Except maybe they'd kill off all the fish. Bad idea.

[spanone]

11. nashville got national press...serious coverage when westboro sent THREE protesters here

honest to god, national media and there were 3 protesters.

ignore them and they'll go away, or nobody would fucking care

[MichiganVote]

12. Good luck with that. Grand Rapids won't fuck around with them. Esp. Betty Ford AND the

fact that 7 murder victims, including 2 children, are being buried this week. The GR community won't take that shit this week.

[Adsos Letter]

13. So they picket the funeral of a high profile woman who overcame alcoholism...

and helped bring discussion further into the open, and hope to the alcoholics everywhere.

Stupidity reigns within that group.

[nessa]

14. Why does is still considered news?...

Why is it so hard for the media just to ignore these people?

[provis99]

16. a Democratic family protesting a dead Republican.

[Bake]

18. If there were a God, they'd be in hell already.

Apparently there is not.

Bake

[Shagbark Hickory]

19. Unrec for helping them spread their press release.