[Johnny_Utah]

Fundamentalist U.S. Church Could Picket McLean Funeral
NationalPost.com
August 5, 2008
Excerpt:
Members of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church are threatening to picket the funeral of Tim McLean, the young man decapitated on a Greyhound bus last week. The Kansas-based church - a small fundamentalist sect led by Fred Phelps - is reviled in the United States for protesting the funerals of hundreds of soldiers killed in the Iraq war. The sect gained notoriety in the 1990s by picketing the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man beaten to death in Wyoming.

Seven members of the church originally planned to picket theatre performances in Toronto and Red Deer, Alta., later this week. They recently added Mr. McLean's Manitoba funeral to their itinerary and plan to stand outside the service with signs reading "God hates you," "the wrath of God is revealed," and "God hates Canada." God is sending a message through Tim McLean's murder that He and the commandments must be obeyed, Ms. Phelps-Roper said.

"The reason we're going is it's dot-connecting time," Ms. Phelps-Roper said on Tuesday. "The Lord is coming, America is doomed, the wrath of God abides upon the children of disobedience. His wrath appears in the form of these God smacks that are going on all around us. They're only going to get worse, and they're only going to come faster."

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=702577
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The Phelps Church group is worthless, they are about publicity and whoring themselves at any cost!

Here's a member of the Phelps group in all their disgusting Glory!

[Newsbot]

Title: \'God is punishing Canada\'
Category: Religion
Posted By: C.M. Burns
Date: 2008-08-07 06:56:34
Canadian

[LightStarr]

"When it comes to the (Westboro) Baptist Church, they don't even deserve to be on the same page as Tim McLean. He was too great a guy," said Mitchell."

They should stay the fuck out of our country.

[commanderkai]

These douches? Just ignore them and they HOPEFULLY will go away. They're more disgusting than anything the House of Commons usually shits on us

[LightStarr]

These are the kind of Fundamentalists that will not disappear by being ignored alone. Their kind of crap needs to be weeded out. Fucking attention grabbing cockbags.

[Mustang1]

They're nothing, but yet, they get press. That's the problem - normally they'd be marginalized fringe freaks, but media coverage actually gives them power. That's the sad part

[Arctic_Menace]

At least now we know where they will be...Anyone up for a Cheney-esque "hunting accident" to occur for the church-goers in Winnipeg?

[Newsbot]

Title: \'Hated\' church group to protest Tim McLean funeral
Category: Strange
Posted By: mtbr
Date: 2008-08-07 08:51:08
Canadian

[mtbr]

PETA is in good company!

[HaRdLy]

A few people I know are thinking of making a trip to the funeral, and confronting these sick fvcks.

[HaRdLy]

mtbr mtbr:

PETA is in good company!

Are you serious?

[Regina]

HaRdLy HaRdLy:

mtbr mtbr:

PETA is in good company!

Are you serious?

Have you read what PETA is saying?

[hurley_108]

Can we get this one merged with the other one about Westboro?

For that matter can we get the two Westboro threads merged with the PETA thread? A sort of "Whakos hijack Greyhound Tragedy" thread?

[mtbr]

Regina Regina:

HaRdLy HaRdLy:

mtbr mtbr:

PETA is in good company!

Are you serious?

Have you read what PETA is saying?

no shit did you notice the

[Thanos]

This would be a good first step for the government to take to formulate policy sepecifically designed towards keeping all fundamentalist nutcases out of Canada, whether it be for temporary visitors like the ones from the Westboro vomitarium, or for the Sikh or Islamic ones who somehow end up living here permanently. Religion regularly keeps showing how dangerous it is so it's the responsibility of secular government to take measures against it.