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Wednesday January 25, 2012
Hate Groups • RNB's Religion News Blog • Westboro Baptist Church:
The Westboro Baptist Church — a hate group masquerading as a Christian church — has announced its next publicity seeking opportunity. The hatemongers feel called to picket the funeral of Joe Paterno.
Thursday March 3, 2011
Hate Groups • RNB's Religion News Blog • Westboro Baptist Church:
Members of one of the world’s most despicable hate group today won the legal right to continue their vile behavior under the cover of ‘free speech.’ The miscreants of the Westboro Baptist Church — a hate group masquerading as a Christian church — can continue to picket military funerals after the supreme court ruled in favour of their right to free speech.
Tuesday January 11, 2011
Hate Groups • RNB's Religion News Blog • Westboro Baptist Church: ‘Angels’ are planning to shield mourners at the the funeral of a 9-year-old girl from the hategroup that calls itself the “Westboro Baptist Church.”
Monday November 15, 2010
Hate Groups • RNB's Religion News Blog • Westboro Baptist Church: Members of a Kansas ‘church’ that protests at military funerals may have found themselves in the wrong town Saturday.
Shortly after finishing their protest at the funeral of Army Sgt. Jason James McCluskey of McAlester, a half-dozen protesters from Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., headed to their minivan, only to discover that its front and rear passenger-side tires had been slashed.
To make matters worse, as their minivan slowly hobbled away on two flat tires, with a McAlester police car following behind, the protesters were unable to find anyone in town who would repair their vehicle, according to police.
Even before the protesters discovered their damaged tires, they faced off with a massive crowd of jeering and taunting counterprotesters.
The Supreme Court is expected to rule on whether or not the hate group’s despicable behaviour is legal.
Shortly after finishing their protest at the funeral of Army Sgt. Jason James McCluskey of McAlester, a half-dozen protesters from Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., headed to their minivan, only to discover that its front and rear passenger-side tires had been slashed.
To make matters worse, as their minivan slowly hobbled away on two flat tires, with a McAlester police car following behind, the protesters were unable to find anyone in town who would repair their vehicle, according to police.
Even before the protesters discovered their damaged tires, they faced off with a massive crowd of jeering and taunting counterprotesters.
The Supreme Court is expected to rule on whether or not the hate group’s despicable behaviour is legal.
Sunday November 14, 2010
Hate Groups • Religious Insanity • RNB's Religion News Blog • Westboro Baptist Church: The radical Westboro Baptist Church, famous both for their virulent homophobia and for picketing the funerals of U.S. soldiers, had indicated on their website they planned to rally outside a play in Old Strathcona, Canada on Saturday night.
The hate group — which masquerades as a Baptist Christian church, but is neither Baptist nor Christian –failed to show up. Instead, hundreds of gay rights supporters met outside the play, a production of The Laramie Project, to wave signs and speak out against the American church.
The hate group — which masquerades as a Baptist Christian church, but is neither Baptist nor Christian –failed to show up. Instead, hundreds of gay rights supporters met outside the play, a production of The Laramie Project, to wave signs and speak out against the American church.
Tuesday October 19, 2010
Hate Groups • RNB's Religion News Blog • Westboro Baptist Church: The miscreants of the Westboro Baptist Church — a hate group masquerading as a Christian church — are as bad at interpreting the weather as they are at interpreting the Bible.
Thursday October 7, 2010
Hate Groups • RNB's Religion News Blog • Westboro Baptist Church: The Westboro Baptist Church is a hate group masquerading as a Christian church.Theologically, the hate group’s extremist views and despicable behavior mark it as a cult of Christianity.
Led by Fred Phelps, members of this ‘church’ — who have deluded themselves into thinking that they are followers of Jesus Christ — target homosexuals and others with messages of hate.
The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether or not this group’s particular brand of religious insanity should be allowed as ‘free speech.’
Led by Fred Phelps, members of this ‘church’ — who have deluded themselves into thinking that they are followers of Jesus Christ — target homosexuals and others with messages of hate.
The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether or not this group’s particular brand of religious insanity should be allowed as ‘free speech.’
Hate Groups • Religious Insanity • Westboro Baptist Church:
The US Supreme Court weighed whether the Westboro Baptist Church — anti-gay religious group that pickets military funerals with signs that read “Thank God for dead soldiers” — is exercising its right to free speech or invading a grieving family’s privacy. The Supreme Court seemed to have trouble putting aside the ugliness of the message to focus on the rights of the messenger Wednesday, as justices tried to balance free speech against the privacy owed a grieving family burying a son.
Friday September 10, 2010
Hate Groups • Islam • RNB's Religion News Blog: Pastor Terry Jones may have ‘suspended’ plans to burn copies of the Quran at the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., on 9/11, but the religious nuts of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, says they will.
The Westboro group, a religious cult, is a hate group that masquerades as a religion. Its followers are known for confusing their hate-filled speech and behavior.
While claiming to be Christians they demonstrate in word and in deed that they are not followers of Jesus Christ, but rather servants of the devil. .
Although the church burned a Quran in Washington in 2008, it did not get much media attention. On its web site Friday, the church called Pastor Jones in Gainesville a “false prophet … bullied by sissy, intolerant rebels worldwide into cancelling plans to burn that blasphemous idol called the Koran.”
Westboro also declared that it “will burn the Koran and the doomed American flag at 12:00 p.m. on September 11, 2010 at Westboro Baptist Church.”
You’ll notice we file all reports involving the Westboro Baptist Church under the header of ‘religious insanity.’
The Westboro group, a religious cult, is a hate group that masquerades as a religion. Its followers are known for confusing their hate-filled speech and behavior.
While claiming to be Christians they demonstrate in word and in deed that they are not followers of Jesus Christ, but rather servants of the devil. .
Although the church burned a Quran in Washington in 2008, it did not get much media attention. On its web site Friday, the church called Pastor Jones in Gainesville a “false prophet … bullied by sissy, intolerant rebels worldwide into cancelling plans to burn that blasphemous idol called the Koran.”
Westboro also declared that it “will burn the Koran and the doomed American flag at 12:00 p.m. on September 11, 2010 at Westboro Baptist Church.”
You’ll notice we file all reports involving the Westboro Baptist Church under the header of ‘religious insanity.’
Tuesday August 17, 2010
Hate Groups • Religious Insanity • Westboro Baptist Church:
Missouri’s tight restrictions on protests and picketing outside military funerals were tossed out by a federal judge Monday, over free speech concerns. A small Kansas church had brought suit over its claimed right to loudly march outside the burials and memorial services of those killed in overseas conflicts. The state legislature had passed a law to keep members of the Topeka-based Westboro Baptist Church from demonstrating within 300 feet of such private services.
Monday May 31, 2010
Westboro Baptist Church:
Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia are backing the family of fallen Marine Matthew Snyder in a pending U.S. Supreme Court case that could decide the constitutionality of laws restricting protests at private family funerals. The respondent, Phelps, has staged loud protests with members of his Westboro Baptist Church at military funerals around the country. He argues his signs, bearing messages such as “You’re in hell” and “God hates you,” are protected forms of speech.
Tuesday March 30, 2010
Hate Groups • Religious Insanity:
Lawyers for the father of a Marine who died in Iraq and whose funeral was picketed by anti-gay protesters say a court has ordered him to pay the protesters’ appeal costs. The protesters in question are members of the Westboro Baptist Church — a hate group masquerading at a Christian church — known for its despicable behavior at funerals and elsewhere.
Tuesday March 9, 2010
Hate Groups:
The US Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether vitriolic anti-gay protestors who picket the funerals of US soldiers are protected by free speech laws. The Westboro Baptist Church is a hate group that masquerades as a Christian church and uses free speech as an excuses for despicable behavior.
Friday September 25, 2009
Hate Groups • Religious Insanity:
A federal appeals court has thrown out a US$5 million ($7 million) verdict against fundamentalist Christian protesters who carried signs with inflammatory messages like “Thank God for dead soldiers” outside the Maryland funeral of a US Marine killed in Iraq. Members of the Westboro Baptist Church — a cult-like hate group — have deluded themselves into thinking they are Christians.
Thursday April 2, 2009
RNB Roundup:
Today’s Religion News Roundup: • Why the word should worry about Iran • A 666 license plate exchange • What could be worse than the Taliban? • Law aimed at hate group used to silence veteran instead Also: • Germany bans Neo-Nazi youth organization, and • Jews in Brooklyn take the Amish on a walking tour…
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