I hate to even place these buffoons in with the Christian Right for two reasons. For one, in the past; they have supported Democrats and For two; these idiots are beyond just your typical nutty far right wingers. They are just straight up hatemongers.
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Via CNN:
(CNN) — A motorist fired pepper spray Saturday at a group of demonstrators and counter-protesters outside a funeral for a U.S. Marine in Omaha, Nebraska, police said.
The incident occurred shortly before 10 a.m. (11 a.m. ET) as members of a small Kansas church that protests at military funerals and counter-protesters stood nearly a block away from First United Methodist Church during services for Staff Sgt. Michael Bock, 26, who died August 13 in Afghanistan’s Helmand province.
A man in a Ford-150 pickup truck drove by, extended his arm and sprayed with a large can, police said. His vehicle was stopped a few minutes later.
“Initial indications are he was probably targeting the Westboro Baptist Church” protesters, said officer Michael Pecha, a spokesman for Omaha police.
George Vogel, 62, who lives just north of Omaha, was booked for 16 counts of misdemeanor assault and one count of felony assault on a police officer for the pepper-spray exposure, police said. Vogel also faces one count of child neglect because his child was in the truck, Pecha told CNN.
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Shirley Phelps-Roper, a member of Westboro Baptist Church, said Omaha police did not adequately control roughly 30 counter-protesters, who she said jostled with church members. She also challenged Knudsen’s and Pecha’s account, saying a few Patriot Guard members were among the counter-protesters.
The group was about 1,000 feet from the church when the driver came by. “Of course it was directed at us,” Phelps-Roper, who is Fred Phelps’ daughter, said of the pepper spray.
None of the 16 Westboro members on the corner were affected because they raised signs to shield themselves or turned away, Phelps-Roper said. The group returned home shortly afterward.
Extra officers were on hand for any possible altercations, but there were only verbal exchanges before the truck drove up, police said.
They should be glad it was just mace. Because folks, they are jacking with our United States Military. They are militant haters who have, like the terrorists on 9/11, have hi-jacked a Religion to further their religion of hate. I am all for having a Religious opinion; I too believe that Homosexuality is a sin. But to protest the funerals of dead United States Soldiers? That my friends is an act of terrorism.
In the past, I have tried to at least explain these people and their thinking. No more. I am done trying to explain them. Baptist? Calvinist? Absolute Predestination? Meh. Screw them — They just haters, hiding behind theology. They are no different than Al-Qaeda; they are Terrorists, Christian Terrorists, who are using our first amendment for protection. Just like Revolution Muslim does; and the only thing that a true-blue, dyed in the wool terrorists understands —- is the end of gun. They are also Anti-American Zealots, who rail against everything that America stands for. They should be arrested on terrorism charges, that Church seized and sold and the funds given to families of dead United States Soldiers.
My Name is Patrick and I am the owner of this blog and I endorse this message. Because nothing is worse than stupid Christians and than is, Hate-mongering Stupid Christians. Terrorists they are; and they should be stopped.
President Obama, is there is one thing you COULD do right and that would be to end this group and end them now. America would be so much better off. However, If I know Shrimpy McWaffle like I do; he would rather have them around to use as a prop to campaign against the Right. Which is about par for the course for this President. However, to be fair, President Bush did excatly nothing about these idiots and I really do not expect President Obama to either. Cowardice in Government is such a tragic thing.
1) They are not Right, they are Left. Not only do they donate to Democrats, they are also pretty standard Marxist in their ideology.
2) They are no more Christian or Baptist than your average soda cracker. They call themselves the Westboro Baptist Church, but they are not a member of either the American Baptist Council or the American Southern Baptist Council, and both of the Councils deny any connection to them. The congregation of the WBC consists mostly of the immediate family of Fred Phelps.
3) You do no favors to Christians or Righties (or soda crackers, for that matter) by advertising them (however falsely) as either.
They make their money by inciting violence and then suing. Most are lawyers. The Patriot Guard Riders were formed expressly to counter them at military funerals, and as you can see by the quote there is no love lost between the two groups.
These Westboro Bap church people really suck. They hate, hate, hate, and worship a god who is lowered by being made in their image, so he is a hater too.
Do you know they see no problem with the sex slayings of kids? It makes me sick to report this.
But when some satanic creep invaded an Amish school with guns drawn and then shot as many kids as posible when he realized they were going to be rescued; this church was planning to picket the funerals of the children with sign telling the Amish their dead girls were whores. It seems that the guy was planning to sexually assault the girls, but was interupted and didn’t get to. But the fact that he planned to is still God’s judgement against the girls in the Westboro creeps eyes. The only thing that stopped the Westboro protest was somebody paid them to not do it. But a woman from Wesboro went on TV and said that it was God who put it in the man’s heart to rape and murder those girls, and when these things happen to children it was God’s judgement against the children.
So they are obsessed with the sin of homosexual sex, but the rape and murder of children is sanctified. That theology tells you these people are servants of Satan. Nobody but Satan wants children raped and murdered. I wouldn’t be surprised if these people don’t secretly dance naked around pentagrams drawn in the floor and sacrifice babies in secret ceremonies.
Even if they don’t openly worship Satan, their hatred and disgusting displays will earn them a hot place in hell for giving the true God of love a bad name.
But we have to put up with them because they have their first ammendment rights.
In case you’ve guessed, I don’t count them as Christians. I don’t think God does either.