Is this for fucking REAL?

[MrMickeysMom]

Please (Bart Cop's webiste, ref) say it ain't so.

If this is what religion and guns look like in Kansas, ask God to remind these people of a few things.

[Rex]

1. Yes, sadly and pathetically true.

[Angry Dragon]

2. Yes , it is for real ......... they say they are coming

[MrMickeysMom]

6. They are actually going to rally that 9 year old's funeral?

Hole-eee SHIT

[readmoreoften]

12. They've been protesting at gay people's funerals since the early 90s.

I don't see why this is any more shocking. They made an animated gif of Matthew Shepard burning in Hell. That's just how they roll. :shrug:

[MrMickeysMom]

18. Don't get me wrong, read... the reason this gets me is...

(and this does not mean I "understand" them hating gays, but to not give a shit about the funeral of an innocent bystander... It wasn't the intended "target", so to immediately like whoever got knocked of, as this child did...

I cannot fathom them doing that to this child. I CAN fathom them doing it on behalf of the political figures. I guess that was my point in this pathetic thing.

[Angry Dragon]

17. That is what they say .......... they are coming

to prove that god is angry with this country and they are just doing gods work

[Richard Steele]

3. That's the Fred Phelps cult, so rest assured that it's real. nm

[nmbluesky]

4. Cult group

are sick people..
They don't care about 9 years old girl..
They are really evil group.. not God..

[begin_within]

5. Those people are insane.

[readmoreoften]

7. Of course its real.

[MrMickeysMom]

9. If this is so predictable, then the next question is...

Did I miss THIS on MSM?

[Hugabear]

8. I just noticed the zip code for that church is 66604

Somehow seems a little bit appropriate...

[MrMickeysMom]

13. followed by "04"...

... which is when I KNEW that we were truly, truly, truly F U C K E D from the election.

[Duke Newcombe]

10. That's what STUPIDITY looks like.

As a Christian and gun owner, these buffoons don't speak for me. I can't comment on Kansas, however :) .

[marmar]

11. They're a circus sideshow.......

..... what a pathetic existence to be that desperate for attention.

[patrice]

14. There are people who deem themselves God's equal in judging the deaths of OTHERS

as worth it for ________________________________.

Maybe that helps them in those last few seconds they face themselves before "nothing"; maybe it doesn't.

We'll never know.

[kudzu22]

15. I think I'm on the verge of calling for violence

....ahhh, there it passed. Seriously what kind of fucktards are these people?

[MrMickeysMom]

21. what kind???

Very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very SERIOUSLY SERIOUSLY FUCKING DAMAGED.

Perhaps the damage came after them, Jesus H. Christ, I don't even care at this point.

I just want to see the media up their sorry asses when they decide to do this dance.

[MrMickeysMom]

16. Well... I guess I didn't look far enough... dig this-

http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/114798/arizona_shooting_victims_vs_fred

I want to throw up big time...

[Liberal Veteran]

19. Do you ever just take a look at the world and think, "Damn! Surrounded by crazy!"

[MrMickeysMom]

23. Why, yes... as a matter of fact, yes :-0

[Imajika]

20. Why does anyone give these loons any attention?

You'd think by the media coverage that the Westboro Baptist church had tens of thousands of members and was actually taken seriously anywhere.

The reality, this church has like 100 members, mostly just a large extended family, and is condemned by near every Christian church in the world.

This is a collection of idiots that would just disappear off the national stage if we just ignored them.

[MrMickeysMom]

24. Do you think by ignoring what they are most likely will do...

someone will have missed making a point ABOUT the insanity?

I hear and read a lot of retraction... but small or not, it should be at least called out as worst fucking persons in the world.

[Imajika]

26. Sure, calling them out once or twice to shame them...

...is fine. The media and places like DU have done that in the past, and the effect has been that 99.9% of the public rightfully believe these people are simply disgusting human beings.

What remains of this congregation, such that it is, can not be shamed any further. At this point, they are just seeking a spotlight for their platform - and getting it every time anyone publicizes their events.

Shining the light on crazy or terrible behavior is important, but at some point we are only giving these grotesque individuals the attention they crave.

[MrMickeysMom]

27. Well, at least you and I agree they are grotesque

[kestrel91316]

22. Of course it's for real. You know what WBC is about. Frickin' lunatics.

[MrMickeysMom]

25. Yes, I certainly do...

The fact that I've just pinched myself and understand I'm not "Consciously Dreaming" convinces me that I'm fully immersed in the TWILIGHT ZONE

[Ghost in the Machine]

28. "PSYCHOTIC FRED PHELPS FAMILY EXPOSED"

"PSYCHOTIC FRED PHELPS FAMILY EXPOSED"



Snippets:

When her father was beating someone and screaming at the top of his lungs, frequently Margie would take her terrified younger brothers and sisters away for several hours. When they thought it was over, they'd come back like cautious house cats, sneaking in softly, Margie on point, to see if the coast was clear. The boys tell how one day their father was in a barbershop and noticed the leather strap used to sharpen razors. It struck his fancy as a backup to the mattock handle, so he had one custom-made at a leatherworker's shop near Lane and Huntoon.

"It was about two feet long and four inches wide. It left oval circles- red, yellow, and blue," says Mark. "Usually the circles would be where it would snap the tip-on the outside of your right leg and hip...because he was righthanded." According to Mark and Nate, their father wore out several of the leathermaker's straps while they were growing up. As Mark Phelps became the angel-appointed in Fred's family cult, Nate was assigned the role of sinner. For Mark, his brother was the needed scapegoat. For the rest of the family, Nate was a problem child, the delinquent of the brood. Brilliant like his dad (Nate's IQ has been measured at 150), the middle son followed another drummer from the time he was a toddler. When he was five, he remembers his father telling him, 'I'm going to keep a special eye on you'. The regular beatings started shortly thereafter.

Nate endured literally hundreds of such brutalities before walking out at one minute after midnight on his eighteenth birthday. His siblings both inside and outside the church agree that Nate got the lion's share of the 'discipline'. "Nate was a very tough kid," says Mark. "I don't know how he endured it, but he did. He'd get 40 blows at a time from the mattock handle. He was just tougher than the rest of us and my father adjusted for that."

Today, raising his family in California, Nate is a devout Christian and a warm, friendly, considerate, mountain of a man. But at 6'4" and 280 pounds, it would be...instructive...to see father and son in the same room today with one mattock stick between them. "I sensed early on this man had no love for us," says Nate. "He was using us. I knew it. And I always made sure he knew I did."

In fact, Mark adds, Nate's obstinate resistance so angered his father that, by age nine, when a family outing had been planned, frequently Nate not only missed it, but Fred would remain behind with him. "And during the course of the day, my father would beat Nate whenever the spirit moved him. " Mark remembers the family coming back once to find Pastor Phelps jogging around the dining room table, beating the sobbing boy with a broom handle; while doing so, he was alternately spitting on the frightened child and chuckling the same sinecure laugh so disturbing to those who've seen him on television. When he wasn't allowed to go along, says Mark, "Nate would literally scream and chase mom as she drove off with us kids in the car. He knew what was coming after we left." The older brother remembers the little one racing alongside the windows, begging for them not to leave him until, like a dog, he could no longer keep up. Mark sorrowfully admits he felt no empathy for him, only relief it wasn't happening to himself. "I just stared straight ahead. I didn't know what he was yelling about. I was just glad to get the hell out of there." But how could their mom tolerate that? Wouldn't the maternal instinct cut in at some point? Wouldn't the lioness turn in fury to protect her cub?

http://www.congressunderfire.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=109&topic_id=54&mesg_id=54&page=2

[MrMickeysMom]

31. This reminds me of a Farrah Faucet/Robert Duvall movie...

I remember seeing it on Halloween after seeing Tx Chainsaw Massacre. I was more afraid of the Duvall character..

Really fucked up. This is why I have such a hard time with the fundies... most of them are fucked up, though not nearly this way.

Christ... I hope I don't have nightmares... Thanks, I think.

[Statistical]

29. It isn't an AZ thing. Notice the KS address. They go around the country

normally to soldier's funerals with "God hates fags" and "Thank God for IED" signs.

[Fleshdancer]

30. It actually gets worse....

Earlier today, margie phelps tweeted that Christina, the beautiful and sweet 9 year old who was murdered, died because she wasn't "innocent".

http://twitter.com/#!/MargieJPhelps

Just when I think these assholes can't reach a new low, they attack a murdered child.

on edit: HA! Her profile was suspended! GOOD.

[MrMickeysMom]

32. And, of course, Margie would know about the loss of innocence

With a family like Phelps

[Fleshdancer]

33. exactly. She tweeted this crap to Olbermann and he went off

He later apologized for his language, but who could blame him? ;)