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Westboro hate gang says it will picket Joe Paterno’s funeral

Religion News Blog — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:35:12 +0000

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.

US court allows Westboro Baptist hate group to continue anti-gay funeral protests

Religion News Blog — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:23:33 +0000

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.

Westboro Baptist Church funeral pickets to be met by ‘angels’

Religion News Blog — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:44:07 +0000

'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."

Westboro protesters face jeers and slashed tires

Religion News Blog — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:30:42 +0000

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.

Westboro hate group is a no-show

Religion News Blog — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:14:00 +0000

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.

Westboro Baptist Church weather forecast

Religion News Blog — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 06:01:13 +0000

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.

Westboro Baptist Church is a hate group

Religion News Blog — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 07:12:03 +0000

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.'

Supreme Court appears inclined to rule against funeral protesters

Religion News Blog — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 06:51:16 +0000

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.

Westboro religious nuts may burn Qurans

Religion News Blog — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:53:45 +0000

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.'

Hate group masquerading as a church wins lawsuit

Religion News Blog — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:06:19 +0000

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.