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Shirley Phelps-Roper: Lack of spanking to blame for ‘Anonymous’ hackers
Shirley Lynn Phelps-Roper, who acts as a spokeswoman for the Westboro Baptist Church, said that groups like ‘Anonymous’ exist because parents no longer spank their children. The website of the Westboro Baptist Church, which has become infamous for picketing soldier’s funerals and carrying signs declaring that “God hates fags,” was…
Westboro Baptists claim to discover Internet’s purpose, much to the amusement of ‘Anonymous’
Members of Pastor Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church claim to have discovered the underlying purpose of the Internet: using it “to tell this nation & this world that your destruction draws nigh.” While it was unclear what they thought of other priceless online frivolities, such as lolcats or Something Awful, but there’s…
After tires slashed, Oklahoma townsfolk refuse to help ‘God Hates Fags’ protesters
About a half-dozen members of the Westboro Baptist Church traveled to McAlester, Oklahoma Saturday to picket Army Sgt. Jason James McCluskey’s funeral. Following the protest, the group returned to their minivan to find that the front and rear tires on the passenger side of the vehicle had been slashed. “To…
AP urges Supreme Court to side with ‘God hates fag’ church
4 years after son’s death in Iraq, father and funeral protesters take dispute to Supreme Court One thing Al Snyder wants to make clear: His boy fought and died for freedom in Iraq, but not for the right of some “wackos” to spew hate at soldiers’ funerals under the protection…
Exclusive: Photos show Michigan official protesting at gay rights rally
Andrew Shirvell, the Michigan Assistant Attorney General who appeared on CNN last night to defend his crusade against an openly gay student, was photographed in May 2010 carrying an anti-gay sign to a pro-gay rights rally. Raw Story has obtained these photos exclusively. When Fred Phelps and the anti-gay Westboro…
Right-wing Israeli extremists threaten Rahm Emanuel’s plan for Jerusalem bar mitzvah
White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s plan to hold his son’s bar mitzvah at the historic Western Wall in Jerusalem has run into problems from two different directions. On one hand, according to ABC News, the site lies within the Old City of Jerusalem, which the United States considers…
God Hates Phelps
Obviously if this was arson, the person involved must be blah blah blah nobody got hurt yadda yadda America’s sense of justice woo. Perhaps more importantly – haw, haw! The Topeka Fire Department is investigating a small fire today outside of a church whose members protest at soldier’s funerals. The…
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