Church thanks God for American dead (Kansas--Phelps warning)

[KansDem]

I'm embarassed to be an American AND a Kansan...!

Kansas church thanks God for Americans killed by tsunami and on Sept. 11.

The Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church, which RAW STORY previously revealed had thanked God for the tsunami and any gay Swedes who were killed while vacationing there has now lauded God for killing Americans in the tsunami, as well as Americans killed by jetliners on Sept. 11.

Known for picketing the funeral of Matthew Shepard, the young college student brutally murdered in Wyoming in 1998, the Church—which is largely made up of relatives of consummate homophobe Fred Phelps—released the following statement regarding Americans and the tsunami Jan. 1. The document was released on their website.

"God sent Tsunami last week to execute vengeance upon another 3,000," Phelps writes, referring to the original approximately 3,000 killed on Sept. 11, "carcasses swallowed up in Asian jungles, and concerning each of whom it may be said: 'He shall be buried with the burial of an ass.' Jer. 22:19.'"

http://rawstory.rawprint.com/1204/westboro_tsunami_statement_104.php

What is WRONG with these people???

[purduejake]

Don't be embarassed.

Ignore the jerk. He only wants attention.

[progressiveBadger]

1. Consumed with hate

To get that nasty taste out of your mouth after viewing anything "Westboro Baptist Church", visit: http://www.landoverbaptist.org/
:)

[Canuckistanian]

2. Embarassed? Why? These people don't represent you.

No more than the Nazis did to all the German people.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. There's an old saying,

'beware of wolves in sheep's clothing.' In this case, I think you have to beware of wolves in wolves' clothing.

[struggle4progress]

4. Trained as a lawyer, Fred Phelps was disbarred in 1979 by the Kansas ...

... Supreme Court, which asserted that he had "little regard for the ethics of his profession." The formal complaint against Phelps charged that he misrepresented the truth in a motion for a new trial in a case he had brought, and that he held the defendant in the case up to "unnecessary public ridicule for which there is no basis in fact." Following his disbarment from Kansas State courts, Phelps continued to practice law in Federal courts. In 1985, nine Federal court judges filed a disciplinary complaint charging him and six of his family members, all attorneys, with making false accusations against them. The Phelpses fought the complaint but lost. In 1989, Fred Phelps agreed to surrender his license to practice law in Federal court in exchange for the Federal judges allowing the other members of his family to continue practicing in Federal court ...

http://www.adl.org/special_reports/wbc/default.asp

[MGKrebs]

5. Jeezus! If that doesn't qualify as "threat to society or oneself"

I'm gonna have to go get me some guns!

I mean, religion is fine as far as it goes, but that stuff is lunacy. They need help.

PS- Did I miss something? Was that part of the world (SE Asia) known as the primo vacation spot for gays, or something?

[krrywon]

6. sickos!

[Bono71]

7. Ok...is it just me, or do other people think this guy has

issues with the fact that **HE** is gay.

[tuvor]

8. I take it there are no laws against hate speech in the USA?

[maddezmom]

9. Not Late Breaking News, locking