What Sick Bastards

WARNING WARNING

The language I will use here will be very sailor like. If that type of language offends you, please read no further. (hat tip to OG)

There is a so called church group running around picketing military funerals. These sick bastards are celebrating the deaths of those that have died defending their right to be assholes. Some are carrying signs that say "God Hates You" and Thank God for IEDs".

The Kansas City Channel has more on this, including video.

'ST. JOSEPH, Mo. -- Members of the Rev. Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., are picketing military funerals, KMBC's Micheal Mahoney reported Friday.

The group has made national headlines for traveling throughout the country to picket gay churches, gay weddings, and the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student who was murdered in Wyoming in 1998.

Friday, about 15 members of the group -- some of them children -- picketed the funeral of a St. Joseph soldier who was killed in Iraq. Mahoney reported that the group stood across the road from the Grace Evangelical Church during the funeral of 21-year-old Spc. Edward Myers.

"The first sin was being a part of this military. If this young man had a clue and any fear of God, he would have run, and not walked, from this military," said protester Shirley Phelps-Roper. "Who would serve a nation that is godless and has flipped off, defiantly defied, defiantly flipped off, the Lord their God?"

One protester had an American flag tied to his belt that draped to the ground. He was holding a sign that read, "Thank God For IEDs," which are explosive devices used by insurgents to blow up military convoys.'

This so called Reverend, Fred Phelps is one sick scumbag. I have some quote from him from the Anti Defamation League. Here are some excerpts from letter this Phelps bastard has written on America:

'"The reason for the violence that has been erupting in the United States of America in recent years is that GOD HATES AMERICA."

-- "Children are their oppressors,"
WBC "Godhatesamerica.com" Web site

"The same Bible that prescribes the death penalty for murderers, also prescribes the death penalty for those who engage in homosexual conduct. It is a measure of the perversion of our country -- our near-total alienation from God -- that the masses cannot see this great national hypocrisy."

-- "Homosexuals, also, should have the Death Penalty!" WBC flier, June 14, 1997

"In our experience, no modern country is more repressive of human rights than the U.S.A. The vaunted First Amendment is nothing but empty words on paper...We will journey to China at our expense, and tell our story of modern American repression of human rights, upon invitation."

-- Fred Phelps, writing to the Ambassador to the United States from the People's Republic of China, February 26, 1997

"Homosexuals now pervade and control American government at every level and branch. Thus, only those churches that support and promote the militant homosexual agenda enjoy religious freedom. Any church in America that dares to preach what the Bible says about soul-damning, nation-destroying moral filth of the vile homosexual beasts among us, loses all Constitutional guarantees of religious freedom and speech rights."

-- Fred Phelps, in a letter to Russian President Boris Yeltsin, July 5, 1997

"We understand that Iraq is the only Muslim state that allows the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ to be freely and openly preached on the streets without fear of arrest and prosecution. Alas, the United States no longer allows the Gospel to be freely and openly preached on the streets, because militant sodomites now control our government, and they violently object to the Bible message...The same majoritarian sodomite tyranny that now guides the Clinton administration's repressive policies toward Gospel preaching on America's streets, is apparently responsible -- at least in part -- for the merciless slaughter by starvation of 400 innocent Iraqi babies each day in your country. If our government and laws will allow it, and at the invitation of your government, we would like to send a delegation from Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, to preach the Gospel on the streets of Baghdad for one week in the near future."

-- Fred Phelps, in a letter to Saddam Hussein,
November 30, 1997'

As far as I know, God does not hate. Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church and those assholes that follow him are in serious need of an attitude adjustment. I have to tell you, if this asshole group ever shows up at a military funeral in the Las Vegas area, I know I am going to jail. Here is these sick scumbags web site. They are dumb enough to post the military funerals they want to picket. Now I am not advocating violence here, but I think it would be good for any of you in an area where these miscreants plan to picket, to be there in a show of support for the families of the fallen. I know there are those of you that will say that this will give them the attention they want. There are times when the actions of some are so sick, so depraved, that it needs to be met head on. Americans need to see what a sick bunch of bastards these people are. - Sailor