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Risendemonx
New Member
USA
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 Posted - 01/23/2008 : 10:39:53
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As we all probably heard from the constant bombardment by the media on the story, Heath Ledger died yesterday. If you aren't aware, he is one of the stars in Brokeback mountain, and is staring as the Joker in the new Batman movie.
That said, it's no surprise that Westboro Baptist church is acting in an entirely predictable fashion, and has plans of picketing the funeral
http://heathledgerdied.info/hate.html
What's surprising to me is the fact that they can afford to, especially after the 11 million dollar lawsuit they lost...
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Edited by - Risendemonx on 01/23/2008 10:40:38
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chaloobi
SFN Regular
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Posted - 01/23/2008 : 10:55:12 [Permalink]
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I've unfortunately spent a lot of time in church over my life and I've never in my strangest experience heard hate attributed to God like this. These guys exhibit one of the scariest aspects of the human condition - how you can be a total monster and simply not realize it. Naturally any sufficiently introspective person will at least diddle with the question in reference to their own self. Are you a monster? No? Are you SURE about that? Yeah? Well so are these people. 
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-Chaloobi
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 01/23/2008 : 13:46:41 [Permalink]
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I think all the gays should picket Phelph's funeral, turn about being fair play. Let us hope that it will be soon....
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Paulos23
Skeptic Friend
USA
446 Posts |
Posted - 01/27/2008 : 15:08:48 [Permalink]
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| Well I wish I could say I was supprised, but I am not. I hope his family will get the best security agency they can hire and that these guys come nowhere near the funeral. |
You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley |
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recurve boy
Skeptic Friend
Australia
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Posted - 01/27/2008 : 17:13:12 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Risendemonx
What's surprising to me is the fact that they can afford to, especially after the 11 million dollar lawsuit they lost...
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I wouldn't be surprised if the church is swimming in money, from what I have heard of the 'generosity' of other churches congregations. |
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Jumbo
New Member
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Posted - 01/28/2008 : 03:40:52 [Permalink]
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I think it was inevitable theyd picket or attempt to.
For someone so obssessed with sexual morality (well one supposed facet of it) its strange he doesnt have a problem with his daughter having had her first son outside marraiage.
On a related topic has anyone else actually listened to one of his sermons? It takes an average about two minutes for it to become an incoherant scream laden rant. They are at times almost literally incomprehensible. They are also all the same just the names change. |
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chaloobi
SFN Regular
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Posted - 01/28/2008 : 08:19:51 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
I think all the gays should picket Phelph's funeral, turn about being fair play. Let us hope that it will be soon....
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1. He's not worth it.
2. His fellow Americans ought to show him and his congregation a bit of real Christian teaching - "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" - and - "Turn the other cheek" - and give him respectful privacy on his death. But alas, not many devout christians in America seem to want to act like devout christians.
3. Blah blah blah.
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-Chaloobi
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Well, we all probably expected this...
