*sigh* Those who will site “free speech” regarding this case should be reminded that there are many instances where “speech” is decidely NOT protected by the First Amendment.

These creatures descended in my area of the country a few years back when all the church burning was at it’s height.They came to disrupt three funerals in the area of three of our service people killed in Iraq. They made a mockery of and totally ruined an already tragic event five miles south of me. The funeral servive was shouted down, these religious nutjobs threatened the people who attended. A few days later about eight miles west of me,the second funeral in less than a week for this downed warrior took place. We had some of the local motorcycle groups assist in holding up tarp baracades to shield the funeral services from this group of sickos.The third event I didn’t hear how that went,to much censorship on the victims of George Bushes Folly you know.After the third time they disrupted a funeral service the state passed a bill making this activity illegal and it seemed to work as this group left and I haven’t heard much about them in our state since. It’s about time they pay up for the added cost of police to hold these idiots at bay, the emotional stress they add to an already bad situation. How would they like it if the regular people did the same thing to these Westboro misguided crazies when they have a similar thing happen to them.But,being the god freaks that they are,I am certain no one in their church would volunteer for the military.They just hide in their hole in the ground and only come out to reek havoc.

That was about the time three people were arrested for the church burnings and I felt that it was to bad that these arsonist couldn’t have ended on a high note by taking out the Westboro Baptist Church before they were caught.

Okay god freaks: If you dance to the music you gotts pay to the piper.PAY UP!

These people give Christanity a bad name. They are
nothing but bigots. I am glad that they have to pay. Maybe now true Christians won’t be blamed for what stupid bigots do.

Now they can practice all the free speech they want--in the poor house. These people are despicable, and take free speech to the verge of criminality. I am very happy they lost--so far--this case. It’s only unfortunate that they are not doing a little time behind bars as well.

Spot on, Logician!

The Westboro church has been doing this for quite a while; they picketed a few other gays and even had to make some signs for bikers because bikers started protecting the gay funerals by revving their engines to drown out their terrible words and waving American flags.

You notice that nary a single church has said ‘that’s wrong’. It’s always the individuals defending their religion, and only when this reaches the top of the headlines. Once it trickles down, the Christians will forget, and the hate will spread.

Keep in mind that the Westboro Church is saying pretty much what most Republican Christians say, just much more loudly and with far more violence.

Appalling, really. I hope God lets me, an atheist girl, spit in all of their faces, swear at them, kick them, then we can all take a fun trip down to hell so I can beat the crap out of them, and maybe God’ll give me a few days in heaven as a reward for hurting those sick bastards that slandered his name.

Honestly, it’s this kind of hate that makes me shake my head at religion the most.

This is nothing more than a group misguided “Christians” and they should not be viewed as a representative of the Christian church.

1 John 4:8
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Note that God is love. Not that he is like love, or reminiscent of love He is love!

Whatever is detestable is Gods eyes is for him to judge. Not you or I or anyone else.

Eeeyow!

I can’t add a thing to the obvious sense of the previous posts.

By the way, if you all checked out their site (know your enemy, after all!) Phelps’ gang praise god for the deaths in the 35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis, cause the mayor didn’t give the closest queer Phelps the key to city when he jerked off over the city’s acknowledgement that gays are people, too.

Just another wonderful example of why mankind will NEVER evolve until ALL religions, new age mumbo jumbo spiritualism, etc, etc, et nauseating cetera, are eradicated.  The pure malevolent shit that is produced by magical thinking FAR outweighs ANY benefit it has EVER produced. (Actually there has NEVER been any benefit that I know of, but I know there are less evolved humans out there who, gosh darn it all, just can’t live without the drooling comfort of following some schizophrenic psychopath’s make believe creation story...)

Anyway, it just fascinates me that if there are REALLY so many “religious” people who disagree with these biblical literalists, why are NO, repeat NO churches ANYWHERE taking public action to do something about them?  Come on, you know why!  They AGREE, they’re just too chickenshit to do the actual protesting themselves. 

Just like the “moderate” Muslims who just “deplore” the jihadists, but just can’t seen to get themselves together enough to do anything about it.  Religion is shit, no matter which psycho-nut-job-crap you drool over, and the hate will not end until religion does.

Well ya know, as soon as I read this, I decided that this gang would be a perfect target for the new HR 1955 law that the House so overwhelmingly passed last week. The one on the prevention of “Homegrown Terrorists”.

The ‘Thought Crime Bill” that makes it overwhelmingly illegal to indulge in any violence of a religious or political nature. Now of course it wasn’t written with THESE terrorists in mind, but rather those ‘others’ that we’ve bashed around for the past 7 years. Those Islamics and stuff.

But hey, I read the language, and decided it would be a perfect way to rid us of all THESE types. Might not be such a bad idea after all. Through their asses in the pokey, and let ‘em keep their signs. They can use them on each other.

(I’m glad to know they were fined. THAT has been the traditional remedy, and it works quite well, but I’d still like to see ‘em in the slammer).

Couldn’t have said it better, Rae.

I know, it puts another restriction on Free Speech, and I hate that fact, but so many restrictions have already been put on the First Amendment, including the rights of other religions to practice freely, what the hell. The world’s in the toilet anyway. At least a very large turd went first.

I’m a pacifist. I would never kill any living thing that wasn’t threatening my life. I abhor violence in all forms.

However, I would give a standing ovation to the news that the “Phelps Gang” - those hate-filled, holier-than-thou, mentally defective hypocrites from the Westboro Baptist Church - were “helped” to meet their Maker by “unnatural forces.”

I can’t think of a more offensive, obnoxious, odious group of loathesome ignoramuses than they have proven to be.