Church thanks God for the tsunami and for the death of any gay Swedes

[MSgt213]

RAW STORY has discovered that the Westboro Baptist Church leaders known for picketing the funeral of Matthew Shepard, the young college student brutally murdered in Wyoming in 1998, have released the following statement regarding the tsunamis which hit Southeast Asia earlier in the week.

The statement, which was posted on their website Wednesday alongside dozens of other archived "press releases," thanks God for the tsunami and for the death of any gay Swedish vacationers who perished at the time.

http://rawstory.rawprint.com/1204/westboro_tsunami_statement_1230.php

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Those people are SO far from God's love

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Would Jesus love a liberal? You bet!
http://timeforachange.bluelemur.com/

[FlemingsGhost]

4. Agreed.

Quick show of hands ... Who's God is a vengeful, merciless bigot?

[Hobarticus]

2. Breaking: Hell announces expansion, builds new Circle of Hell

for anyone gloating over tragedies in the name of God.

[Ken Burch]

3. The new addition will be named

Casa Phelps.

[Hobarticus]

8. Quite an honor, to get a Circle of Hell named after oneself.

Someone really worked hard to get that!

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. And how many of them are Republican and voted for Bush?

Lovely Christians. May they be greeted at the pearly gates of heaven by a God who directs them to hell with the comment, "You're fired!"

[ComerPerro]

6. The media should expose assholes like this

I say we start painting all conservatives as a bunch of judgemental assholes who gloat when thousands die.

[pelagius]

7. Why do we even give these people the slightest bit of attention?

It only encourages them. They're not "Christian" or even "Baptist" in any normal sense of the terms. They're essentially a family-based cult who make forays out in the big world to garner publicitly through outrageous stunts. And we're only too happy to oblige them.

Even very conservative Christians think these people are morons. The only platform they have is the one we give them.

[LDS Jock]

9. they did have a web site about it

www.godhatessweden.com but it is now gone (thankfully). It was part of a trio of such sites, including www.godhatescanada.com and www.godhatesamerica.com Apparently God hates all kinds of people and countries.

[MSgt213]

10. A all knowing, all seeing god sits around hating Richard Simmons(nt)

[CitySky]

11. God Cries. n/t

[KamaAina]

12. If that's a church, I'm a bottlenose dolphin

Why can't a real church in Topeka sue them for false advertising? A true, factual name might be "Westboro Bigots and Hatemongers Society".

Hey, they could still go over to Missouri and adopt a highway, right next to the Klan's...

[kweerwolf]

13. Phelps and his merry "klan" of followers are to religion ...

what a paint-by-number set is to the ceiling of the Sistine chapel.