4.21.2007

the accident

Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is a controversial U.S. church headed by Fred Phelps and based in Topeka, Kansas. It runs the website GodHatesFags.com, and GodHatesAmerica.com, and other websites expressing condemnation of homosexuals, Roman Catholics, Muslims, Jews, Sweden, Canada, America, and other groups. The organization is monitored by the Anti-Defamation League, and classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The group has achieved national notoriety in recent years due to its picketing of funeral processions for soldiers killed in combat, which functions as an extension of the Phelps' anti-United States beliefs.

While its members identify themselves as Baptists, the church is an independent Baptist church not affiliated with any known Baptist conventions or associations. The church describes itself as following Primitive Baptist and Calvinist principles.
The church bases its work around the belief expressed by its best known slogan and the address of its primary website, "God hates fags", and expresses the opinion, based on its Biblical eisegesis, that nearly every tragedy in the world is linked to homosexuality – specifically society's increasing tolerance and acceptance of gay, lesbian, and bisexual people. It maintains that God hates homosexuals above all other kinds of "sinners" and that homosexuality should be a capital crime.

Apparantly members of this "church" were suppose to be picketing at every funeral they could possibly attend from the VT shooting. They made a deal with some city officals though, that would be allowed 3 hours of radio air time instead.

This is also the same group of people that put on a HELL HOUSE every year at their church. When asked at the end if you believe in Jesus, if you say yes then you go to Heaven and everything is fine, but if you say no then you go to Hell. They beat people there with lumber, whips, etc. (legally -- you must sign a form before you enter) until they refute their answer.

What the fuck is wrong with these people?

6 comments:

Sunshine said...

Well first of all, they're located in Kansas. We can pretty much start the list with that one.

Mike said...

Now you know how I feel about the assholes that camp out in front of planned parenthood centers downtown.

Katie said...

those people are sick and very very twisted.
they're gonna burn in hell.

nathaniel said...

haha......brings up memories from childhood.
JUST KIDDING
damn. nobody get your panties in a wad.
It's people like this that give other christians a bad name I suppose....
So wierd...

asha said...

can you even call them christians?
and seth its kinda scary that you found that

Holland Chase said...

It was on a news site I stumbled over. It's not like I actually went looking for that shit.