Australia: According to a gay website, Australian authorities have refused visas to members of Westboro Baptist Church who planned to picket World Youth Day.
Shirley Phelps-Roper, spokesperson for Westboro, told Same Same,If your government would give us a visa we would be there, but they won’t!
I haven't seen this story anywhere else other than on this Australian gay site, but the Westboro Baptist Church did issue a press release on July 12th indicating their intent to go to Australia [PDF]. This reads:
WBC to picket Catholic World Youth Day Sydney, Australia, July 20
Yes, these Roman Catholic priests, bishops, cardinals – all the way up to the Pope – have got a lot of shameless nerve, luring hundreds of kids to a sodomite island thousands of miles away, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, with their reputation of molesting kids! And what kind of idiots – escapees from the funny farm masquerading as parents – will let their kids go to Fantasy Island of the Fags, masquerading as a nation called Australia?
"GOD HATES AUSTRALIA" for criminalising gospel preaching about fags. Just to quote Leviticus 18:22, (Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind; it is an abomination), will get you arrested in fag dominated Australia.
Now, the Phelps are US citizens, and could therefore go to Australia on an Electronic Travel Authority (Visitor) (Subclass 976), assuming picketing is considered to be tourism purposes
(dubious at best). But they announced their intent 8 days before the event they planned to picket, and the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship recommends you are advised to apply for your ETA at least two (2) weeks before your proposed date of travel
. They also note that there is a lot of demand for visas due to World Youth Day and suggest applying before June 1st! There are limitations with respect to criminal convictions, but the civil judgement against the church wouldn't fall foul of them. Perhaps the Australian authorities were concerned that they were trying to flee their financial obligations? Without any other sources, it's impossible to even guess.
Australia: A Fag Fantasy Island—Same Same, 18th July 2008; Walls close in on Phelpses—The Topeka Capital-Journal, 4th April 2008.
United States: A month ago, I mentioned an amusing parody of the Westboro Baptist Church, a version of We are the World redone as God Hates the World. Well, it turns out it really was Westboro Baptist Church, and the record company who released the original song has taken a break from harassing grannies with no computer and three-year-old children and had their lawyers send Phelps a letter.
Now, the Phelps are lawyers themselves, so you'd think they'd know better, but is seems that copyright law is not their speciality, going by their response.
The Phelps Clan responded with a letter, in which they claim their version of We Are The World is a parody, and, therefore "fair use."
And, in an earlier version of the story from the same source:
But an attorney for Westboro Baptist Church says the parody, God Hates the World, is protected under First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and religious expression.
This second point may be true, but it's not actually relevant. Usefully for us, 49News went and had a chat with Andrew Torrance, a law professor who specialises in intellectual property, and it seems the law is pretty clear:
He says if this case goes to court, the ruling will be determined by whether the Phelp's [sic] song is judged as a parody or a satire.
A parody is a song that pokes fun at the original version, but a satire takes an original body of work to send out a completely different message than the original version.
He suggested the only way the Phelps can win the case is if they claim it is specifically about Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie, who wrote the original charity song.
One matter that the story fails to address is, if the song is a protected parody, who is it parodying? Could the Westboro Baptist Church really realise that their policies and practices are so laughable that they need to take the piss out of themselves.
Phelps under fire for making music—49News, 18th May 2007; Phelps under fire for changing lyrics to popular song—49News, 18th May 2007.
United States: It seems that, at some point, Jerry Falwell managed to accidentally preach a message that bore some resemblance to the recorded teachings of Jesus Christ, and that has annoyed Fred Phelps.
WBC will preach at the memorial service of the corpulent false prophet Jerry Falwell, who spent his entire life prophesying lies and false doctrines likeGod loves everyone.
Naturally, he concludes that Falwell must be in a well known Norwegian town, and gives his reasons. Two of them are worth repeating, the first being a bit of tedious theological hair-splitting which means nothing to the sensible.
Falwell bitterly and viciously attacked WBC because of WBC's faithful Bible preaching -- thereby committing the unpardonable sin -- otherwise known as the sin against the Holy Ghost.
Hang on, I thought that sin was specifically denying the Holy Spirit (which does not exist, by the way), not having boring arguments?
Falwell warmly praised Christ-rejecting Jews, pedophile-condoning Catholics, money-grubbing compromisers, practicing fags like Mel White, and backsliders like Billy Graham and Robert Schuler, etc. All for lucre -- making him guilty of their sins.
Ah yes, pooves. We knew they'd be mentioned soon enough. Of course, because Falwell was not fond of pooves (though he did, towards the end of his life, make the outrageous suggestion that they be treated like human beings), it makes him a hard target for Phelp's obsession with hot man-on-man sex, so the rest of his announcement makes no mention of Falwell whatsoever, just pooves. The announcement is on the home page, and will no doubt change as soon as Phelps thinks about pooves again, so here's a screenshot of the entire page (PNG, 540Kb).
WBC will Preach at Jerry Falwell's Funeral!!—God Hates America, 15th May 2007 (probably).
United Kingdom: Since the London bombings in July, politicians have wasted no time in deciding what to do about religious bampots. British Home Secretary Charles Clarke recently announced plans to crack down on what he describes as preachers of intolerance and hatred
. He declaimed:
We must protect the traditions of tolerance that we have established in this country through centuries of struggle and that means cracking down on those who preach intolerance and abuse free speech to justify terrorism, advocate violence or foster hatred.
Spain, Italy and France had already introduced measures to facilitate the expulsion of such preachers after the bombs in Madrid, and Denmark has acted against both Islamist extremists and those who use them as an excuse to whip up hatred against Islam.
So, presumably a few of the Prattle's favourite loony Christian preachers will find themselves unable to enter European countries from now on?
Pat Robertson is surely guilty of advocating violence when he called for the murder of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez?
Mr Robertson, 75, said on Monday's edition of the 700 Club:You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it.
Yet have we have yet to hear a word from the Home Secretary about what action he plans to take against The God Channel, which broadcasts The 700 Club in the UK. Surely the best way to not drive young Muslims into extremism is for the government to demonstrate that it will apply the proposed lesgislation against all those who preach hate, not just the Muslim ones?
Fred Phelps would be another candidate for persona non grata status. He's just decided that he and 20 of his congregation are going to make a trip to Sweden next month to hunt down
the Swedish king.
We'll hunt down your king,he said ominously to Expressen.It doesn't make any difference where he tries to hide.
Phelps' hatred of the royal family and all things Swedish is linked directly to his equally virulent hatred of homosexuals. He praises homophobic crimes, including murder. When controversial Swedish minister, Åke Green, was convicted of inciting hatred of homosexuals following an anti-gay sermon, Phelps saw red and turned his attention to Sweden.
You're doomed to spend eternity in hell,he continued.All you Swedes and your Swedish king and his family.
But Phelps doesn't seem to have any faith that his god will actually do any such thing.
The minister and twenty members of his congregation from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, are planning to come to Sweden at the beginning of September. They are bringing plenty of placards in order to spread their message that Sweden is the cradle of all evil and that the king rules a nation of sodomites.
King Carl Gustaf is their primary target.
Your king represents your doomed country and we'll find him wherever he may be.
Security around the royal family has been stepped up, though presumably Phelps and his cronies are unlikely to be allowed to enter Sweden after such a rant. And obviously, as he's the sort of preacher Clarke wants rid of, should he come via Heathrow, we will see him packed straight onto the first plane home. Won't we?
Clarke to launch hatred crackdown—BBC News, 22nd August 2005;Europe moves against radical imams—BBC News, 6th May 2004; Denmark targets extremist media—BBC News, 17th August 2005; TV host urges US to kill Chavez—BBC News, 23rd August 2005; Minister of hate to hunt down
Swedish king—The Local, 25th August 2005.
United Kingdom: It didn't take long for the conspiracy theorists to get to work on the London bombing, after all it couldn't possibly be the work of a few religious bampots, could it? Most of them bear a stunning resemblance to the ones surrounding September 11th 2001. So, here are the ones we have so far:
United States: Neal Horsley the kind of bloke that gives other Christians the sudden urge to convert to another religion.
He doesn't like women. He doesn't like homosexuals. He happily proclaims that murdering doctors who perform abortions is a fine thing and he has one of the world's ugliest web sites filled with the insane rantings of your typical ignorant bigot to prove it. This is the warm and fuzzy chap who not only fills his site with hate speech, but posts the names and addresses of doctors who, in his opinion, perform abortions and incites people to kill them. One of his idiot followers took Horsley's advice, killed two people and injured a further 150. Horsley was so proud.
But there is one thing that Neal Horsley does like, aside from insane murderers, that is.
In a recent Fox News radio interview, the less than intelligent Horsley was asked about his background, and he cheerfully admitted to engaging in homosexual and bestiality sexual activities. Yep, this self-avowed savior of our souls is into farm animals.
Continue reading "Georgia, Where Your First Girlfriend is a Mule"Fred Phelps will be really upset when he hears that a genetic resistance to HIV/AIDS is most prevalent among Swedes.
Genetic resistance to AIDS works in different ways and appears in different ethnic groups. The most powerful form of resistance, caused by a genetic defect, is limited to people with European or Central Asian heritage. An estimated 1 percent of people descended from Northern Europeans are virtually immune to AIDS infection, with Swedes the most likely to be protected. One theory suggests that the mutation developed in Scandinavia and moved southward with Viking raiders.
This is presumably as much God's doing as the Tsunami which Phelps was gloating over so much.
Genetic HIV Resistance Deciphered—Wired News, 7th January 2005.
Scotland: God Hates Fags UK isn't owned by Fred Phelps, and offers a completely different perspective from that of Westboro Baptist Church:
Smoking tobacco is shite for your health, makes your clothes and breath stink and means that this particular queer will forthwith remove you from hisshaglist.
The particular queer in question just might have something to do with Pastor Best, OPI.
Fred Phelps is a recognised foaming nutball who hates everybody, so stapling his hate-filled message from god
to a disaster comes as no surprise to most. However, some of the more mainstream religious leaders have seen fit to jump on the good reverend's bandwagon.
Anglican Dean of Sydney, Phillip Jensen, said the will of God involved His creation of the world but it also involved His judgment on the sinfulness of humanity.
Disasters are part of His warning that judgment is coming,Dean Jensen said.
Australian Federation of Islamic Councils chief executive Amjad Mehboob said it could not have happened unless it was God's will.
You really have to wonder who would want to go to heaven if this is the kind of reception you'd meet. I'm embarrassed enough to have to share a city with the likes of the noxious Jensen.
It was a message from above—The Sunday Telegraph, 2nd January 2005.
United States: Christian hatemonger Fred Phelps seems glad that lots of people have been killed by the tsunami in Asia, especially as some of them are bound to be pooves! He also seems unaware of some of the more esoteric uses of turkey-basters.
How many tsunami-dead Swedes are fags & dykes? vacationing on their fat expendable incomes without kids to bother with and spend money on. With respect to each of these earthquake-dead perverts:He shall be buried with the burial of an ass.Jer. 22:19. Maybe Sweden can pass another law--making it a crime for God to send earthquakes and tidal waves to kill vacationing Swedish fags & dykes.
It seems strange that such a powerful deity would be so indiscriminate as to wipe out thousands of innocent people just because Sweden made use of its hate-speech law. Even stranger, as the Bible verse quoted seems to be a punishment the same God threatened to mete out for excessive bloodthirstiness.
But it seems that it wasn't just the Swedes God has it in for, as 3000 US citizens are known to have died in the disaster. This is a Good Thing to bloodthirsty Phelps, who also seems to admire murderous Islamist loons.
Yes! Thank God for Sept. 11 and 3,000 dead sodomite Americans in 2001. God sent the Muslim planes to destroy fag New York's twin towers and hurl 3,000 vile Americans into Hell. Even so, God sent Tsunami last week to exercute vengeance upon another 3,000 carcasses swallowed up in Asian jungles, and concerning each of whom it shalll be said:He shall be buried with the burial of an ass.Jer. 22:19.
America is awash in diseased fag feces & semen!
America: apostate land of the sodomite damned!
And the reason God, again, used such a blunt tool is because Massachusetts gives the same civil rights to same-sex couples as are available to opposite-sex ones. You'd think he'd make his point better if he'd got one of the gay resorts and left everywhere else alone?
It's a good thing this God character is nothing more than a figment of Phelp's sectionable imagination, or we'd have to lock him up and throw away the key.
Thank God for Tsunami & 2,000 dead Swedes!!! (PDF)—Westboro' Baptist Church News Release, 29th December 2004; Thank God for Tsunami. Thank God for 3,000 dead Americans (PDF)—Westboro' Baptist Church News Release, 1st January 2005 (oops, hope that wasn't embargoed!). Thanks to Pastor Best.
Des Moines, Iowa, United States: Westboro Baptist Church, home of arch-homophobe Fred Phelps has offered a $1000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a queerbasher who broke a gay man's leg and then forced him to say that he would seek God's forgiveness for being gay
. No, it's not April Fools' Day. The attack took place on the same day as Phelps and friends were in Des Moines picketing a school, and is thought to have been inspired by them. Among platitudes such as A crime is a crime. Two wrongs don't make a right.
and assurances that the Church does not condone violence, representative Shirley Phelps-Roper let slip the real reason they are confident to offer the reward: they think the pooves are lying and the attack never took place. Is Phelps going soft on gays?—Gay.com News, 18th June 2003.
Fred Phelps has gone back on a promise to picket a London performance of The Laramie Project for a second time. Over 100 activists, from OutRage!, the NUS, GALHA, Queeruption, Durham LGBTA, Salford LGB, Ladyfest London, and International Wages Due Lesbians were disappointed. "Fags" frighten off Phelps—Gay.com, 7th April 2003. See also Phelps fails to protest—Pagan Prattle, March 12th 2003.
United Kingdom: Fred Phelps failed to picket the opening of The Laramie Project in London last night, even though he'd written to the UK gay press promising to do so. The play is about the murder of gay teenager Matthew Shephard, an action Phelps, and his Westboro Baptist Church, heartily approve of. As their counter-protest was not needed, a group from the National Union of Students handed out leaflets undisturbed.
Homophobic demonstrators stay away from play's first night—Gay.com news, 12th March 2003.
United States: Fred Phelps has got in on the Shuttle bandwagon with a PDF flyer Listen up, America! Here is OUR report on Colombia: The 7 are in Hell. According to Phelps, God deliberately destroyed a symbol of America's technical superiority over East Texas -- home of fag-enabler Bush
, presumably a reference to the President's mother Barbara because I can't see how that description could possibly be applied to George W.
Any other interpretation of the tragic events of Feb. 1 is rank atheism and fagjunk theology by sodomite propagandists.
Nothing to do with having a Hindu and a Jew on board here. Nope, God is pissed off because no-one has killed all the pooves yet, and priest, preachers and rabbis have the temerity to dabble in religion:
America is a sodomite nation, incapable of repenting... From Bush down -- preachers. priests, rabbis, politicians, pundits, reported -- all suddenly became theologians preaching lies and spinning fables about the meaning of the space shuttle tragedy. God's Arm hurled Columbia in fragments to the ground, and hurled the 7 fools into the verlasting fires of Hell -- in wrath and vengeance, laughing, mocking and deriding this nation of fags.
If a God like this really existed, I donate my soul to Satan.
United States: Not everyone who calls themself christian
considers Jesus Christ to be a model for their own behaviour like the Texan Bishop below. Before we locked the door, Feòrag called out look out for Fred Phelps—he's a regular in the Prattle
!.
Fred Phelps and his family are planning to target 10 Philadelphia campuses this week in an anti-gay crusade after locals treated a preacher with the contempt he deserved when he claimed that the September 11th attacks were because America tolerated same-sex relationships.
A couple of years ago, Phelps turned up at a display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt to tell grieving relatives that their loved ones were deservedly suffering in Hell. One of his trademark slogans is Thank God for AIDS
. Pa. cities brace for antigay crusaders—Philadelphia Inquirer, 1st December 2002.
United States: Fred Phelps' neighbours consider him an embarrassment and are really fed up that their town of Topeka, Kansas, is best known for Phelps' message of hate for gays, Jews, African-Americans and the Queen Mother. Jim McCollough, pastor of First Christian Church of Topeka, told the Oakland Tribune He's kind of put Topeka on the map, but (Phelps and followers) do not represent what the city feels.
But Topeka residents warn that Phelps is more than just a Bible-thumping zealot. He and his followers have managed to drive businesses out of town and persuade celebrities to cancel visits, and filed numerous suits against the city, including one for $7 million, according to an article published by the Southern Law Poverty Center, a national organization that tracks hate groups.
Kansas anti-gay church embarrasses Topekans—Oakland Tribune, November 4th 2002.
United States: The loving and sensitive Fred Phelps of Westboro Baptist Church plans to picket the funeral of a transgenedered teenager murdered in an apparent hate crime, and he has been told that he is not welcome. The local community has rallied round the family of Eddie 'Gwen' Araujo, who accepted their child's orientation, and donations have ensured that the 17 year old will get a good send-off. He will be buried in make-up and a dress. Al Moore, a pastor at the church Araujo attended, reminded mourners at a candlelit vigil of how easy it is to be intolerant:
Tonight love is keeping us from seeing our differences, but when we leave here, the sad reality is that we are going to do it again.
The Anti-Defamation League, which usually fights anti-semitism, has also condemned the murder and the actions of Fred Phelps, and urged everyone to stand together against hate-mongers. Three men have been arrested in connection with the murder and police are seeking a fourth. 100 gather to mourn Araujo in candlelight vigil—Oakland Tribune - October 19th 2002; Suspect delays plea in Newark killing—Tri-Valley Herald - October 22nd 2002; ADL Condemns Killing of Newark Teenager—ADL press release, 21st October 2002.
Prattle favourite Fred Phelps apparently thinks the UK is an absolute monarchy, and that the Queen's rôle in government is far greater than that of a ritual rubber-stamper. He also appears to have an interesting reversed interpretation of that well-known Biblical saying found in Exodus 20:5, Exodus 34:7, Numbers 14:18 and Deuteronomy 5:9:
I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me.
According to a Westboro Baptist Church press release issued on April 2nd, the Queen Mother (The mother of harlots & abominations of the earth
) is in Hell because of the actions of her evil daughter - Queen Elizabeth II
;, her whoremongering grandson - Prince Charles
;, her harlot daughter Margaret
(who apparently fornicated her way all over the British Isles & Commonwealth
) and the Elton John whore, Diana
.
Having made herself a worldwide role mode by her courageous dignity during Hitler's bombing campaign of London in WWII -- such that Hitler called her the most dangerous woman alive -- the Queen Mother used her role model status -- for 80 years! -- to lead millions of youth to Hell in a harlots'/faggots' handbasket.
The result of this is that England is now God-cursed with these mongrel royal perverts --fit only for eternal Hell!
Those of us in Scotland, the land of her birth, are apparently safe as the Lord God Almighty is an American who can't tell the difference between the United Kingdom and England. Queen
Mother in Hell! (PDF file)—Westboro Baptist Church News Release, April 2nd 2002.
United States: Notorious fundie homophobe Fred Phelps failed to show up at the Metropolitan Community Church in San Francisco last Sunday after promising to picket the gay-friendly congregation. He had issued press releases to the San Francisco media insisting that he and his cronies from Westboro Community Church in Kansas would be there. His son, the originally-named Fred Phelps Jr, had told the San Francisco Examiner about the theological reasons for picketing the fag church
and the funerals of lesbians and gay men, most notoriously that of Matthew Shepherd who was murdered by queerbashers: The Bible preaches hate. You can't have God's love without God's hate
.
Gay-haters are a no-show—San Francisco Examiner February 25th 2002.
United States: Notorious gay-hater Fred Phelps found himself outnumbered when he decided to picket a high school in New Hampshire for the second time in just over a year. He and 10 others from Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, decided to protest after the school recognised two female students as the senior year's best couple. 20 residents mounted a counter-protest and students showed their contempt for Phelps by ignoring him and his group.
The church had previously picketed the school to protest against its decision to allow homosexual dorm parents. Then, both staff and students wore rainbow badges in support of the school. On neither occasion did locals join Phelps' protest.
Fred Phelps is best known for demonstrating at the funeral of Matthew Shepherd, a student murdered because he was gay. Anti-gay group from Kansas pickets Dover High School—Portsmouth Herald, 2nd January 2002 via Avedon Carol's The Sideshow.
