February 07, 2008 06:45 PM
Westboro Baptist Church Pickets Mike Huckabee In Kansas
GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee campaigned in Topeka, Kansas today and was greeted by Rev Fred Phelps' homophobic flock from the Westboro Baptist Church. Huckabee has recently equated homosexuality with pedophilia and has suggested that AIDS victims should be quarantined, but apparently that just isn't enough hatred of teh gay for these people. These people are repulsive, but I had to chuckle at the sight of homophobic religious fanatics protesting another homophobic religious fanatic.
(click pics for larger images - h/t G)
WTF were they protesting? Who are they backing? Or do they just hate everybody?
this makes absolutely no sense!
I wish all these idiots would go find themselves a country (or island or planet or whatever) that doesn't have gays, so they can live and be happy little bigots! But they should leave America, we don't need them or want them!
rekroc @ 1:
The latter.
Which is odd, so does Up-Chuckabee.
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In my mind, this just further illustrates that the phrase "Religious Tolerance" is an oxymoron.
Shouldn't Phelps be institutionalized.He clearly is insane.
Someone should put him in a straight jacket.
He can share the same padded cell with Coulter.
LOL ... You guys aren't hurt a bit by the Writers Strike.
Poll: Clinton ties McCain. Obama beats him
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1711123,00.html?xid=rss-n...
They should be hating the whole bunch running on the right, and those that have gone.
Jon Stewart had a good segment on Romney's departure speech. If that character is not despicable, then another word must be found, or it needs to be re-defined.
I have posted video at http://www.foxnews-follies.com
That man is evil personified
First and second place finishers in the race to the bottom of the fringe.
mudshark @ 6:
Maybe someone should send Mr. Phelps a shipment of purple Nike's.
The sign that says Fag, and Troops is especially touching.
Could these people be any further from god?
There was a cartoon in National Lampoon about 25-30 years ago...a man walking into a pub, and a man sitting at the bar, whispering to the bartender, "Smell that? That's a Methodist. You can smell 'em coming from miles away."
The cartoon was titled Religious Bigotry Hits An All-Time Low.
I think we've got a new all-time low.
Bring on da hate!
Loonie @ 13:
Not the Republican God.
Pass da guacamo.... sorry .... the green stuff
They do hate
Notice the way they spaced out pHuckusall's name on the marquee so his theotard speed-reading flock wouldn't miss it on the drive-by?
Ruthless People @ 8:
One poll, months away from the election...Time is a right wing rag too.
pot calling the kettle black.
They certainly dress anti-gay. Are teh all colorblind?
rekroc @ 1:
We have a WINNER!
Their signs don't mention Huckabee.
Maybe they just wanted to protest where there would be people passing by, and weren't actually protesting against Huckabee.
WTF?
This shows just how crazy the Phelps kult is.
Even if a guy agrees part way with them they still protest him.
This is the best way to deal with them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ2QY_1sXCI
that sign, on the bottom right of the bottom picture... the universal sign of doggy style? ... being held by a youngster, no less...
Phelps and Colt-er musta taken the same marketing course at Liberty U.
katy @ 25:
Maybe they just don't like football.
Help! I'm getting old. Who was it that said "fascism will come to America wraped in the flag and carrying a cross". Lewis Stevenson?
Southern Baptist Sin,God is your Enemy,God hates America,Fag (ribbon) Troops,Thank God for 9/11,The World Is DOOMED! I'm surprised this nutcase hasn't pulled a Jim Jones........give him time.
pHuck sure hired a lotta barkers for this one.
rekroc @ 1:
ding ding ding! Right answer!
Eric Jaffa @ 23:
They just wanted to be first in line to see pHucktard. They always carry those signs with them wherever they go to remind themselves that jeebus carried his own cross.
I keep seeing this term "teh gay". What does that mean exactly? I've somehow missed a cultural term.
Mike Huckabee's response. "Those people are crazy"
God is your enemy???
c. atrox @ 33:
?
Ya got me.
I always thought is was a spelling error...
I guess I'm out of touch too,so don't feel to bad.
Dana @ 31:
Basically unless you're part of their cult they hate you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ2QY_1sXCI
Why aren't they picketing Catholic churches instead?
Now There's something to get pissed off about; Tens of thousands of children sexually molested by thousands of priests over decades of time...
Amen.
These are like Satan's Little Helpers.
No point in getting worked up over the escapades of the Phelps gang. They are insane but have the same rights as everyone else to spew hate and nonsense. I don't agree at all with their viewpoints and just look at them with pity.
mudshark @ 36:
teh gay
While we throw innocent people into detention at Guantanamo, we have terrorists freaks right in our own backyard....Go figure.
mudshark @ 36:
okay, this is definition #6 from The Urban Dictionary, but it's probably the closest to the truth
teh
Originally just a misspelling from people typing too fast, "teh" has become a word used by net.writers to exemplify people who are ignorant or simply not thinking clearly (perhaps because they're typing too fast).
I was reading a fundamentalist site the other day, and the writer was all upset about kids listening to rock'n'roll. He believes it's TEH DEVIL MUSIC FROM HELL.
Bookmark The Urban Dictionary. It really comes in handy.
The clash of the religious fundamentalist fanatics! Which side can gain the most followers by demonizing which sinning demographic?
All I see is red bricks and brain-dead pricks.
I am sooooo grateful that Fred Phelps and gang are Repugs.
They deserve each other.
maybe they are protesting Huckleberry's sociopathic dog killer son. I don't know if he's teh ghey or not.
Now who is more insane -- Phelps or the people that listen to him and think, "hey, this guy's onto something. I should follow him!"
NOT fabulous!
Radically Moderate @ 47:
Errr actualy Phelps isn't a member of either party and he hates on members of both parties.
IdahoMoe @ 12:
Add to that the sign that says "Thank God for 9/11" on the left side. How do these people look at themselves in the mirror after spreading this type of hate?
Wow!!! . . . Who knew it!!
There IS a god.
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The Westboro Church is a cult.
WHY DOES THE MEDIA COVER THESE JACKASSES?
Just ignore them and let local people beat the crap out of them.
LegallyBlonde @ 49:
They're all hovering around the institutionalizable line.
Their commitably crazy quotient is in the incarceration red zone.
Insane in the membrane monitors malfunction in their proximity.
Pick your favorite or collect 'em all!!
I think maybe the Phelps gang ( many of them are lawyers ) are just gaming the system. They go around saying the most vile things, supposedly in the name of their god, almost begging to be censured, then sue if their free speech rights are infringed. It beats working.
A bunch of scam artists.
I hope I never catch teh church.
If there is one thing that tends to unite repugs and dems, it is the sharing of laughter at the Westboro Baptist Church and it's psychotic leader; Freddy Kruger...err...Phelps. Even here in Australia, we can't help but chuckle quietly at the thought of such a guy being given a platform of sorts to spout nut-baggery.
In the case of attending marines funerals and peoples private gatherings, sometimes Freedom of Speech is bad, mmmkay?
This is just priceless ...
BAC
Scottie @ 59:
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: the Founding Fathers loved a good laugh, and they had a thing for schaudefreude. The real beauty of free speech is that you get to read or hear people making huge asses of themselves.
schaudenfreude.
CD @ 51:
I know the modus operandi(sp)..........he may not be a Repug by name, but he lines up pretty well with Repugs.
Hateful religious fanatics hating on other hateful religious fanatics. The reich-wing is falling apart. Amen
Radically Moderate @ 63:
He might have a decade ago but his protesting servicemens funerals is somthing that no political party would be ok with.
CD @ 65:
Yeah, and David Duke is not a Repug either.......ha ha ha!
Radically Moderate @ 63:
No, they line up with him...but they don't go nearly far enough. Only when Fred is given rein to rule the world...But it goes to show you how fucking crazy the Repugs might be someday. They could be even worse than they are.
Did you hear about the confused Phelps cultist?
He was protesting outside the DMV with his sign...
God hates Tags
Peter G @ 58:
lol
'This week in God':
MySpace deletes hacked Web site for atheists and agnostics
http://www.cleveland.com/living/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/living-0/120...
GOP lawmaker apologizes for calling unwed teen parents 'sluts'
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Lawmakers_uses_slut_to_refer_to_0208.html
Pope backs surge of exorcism squads 'to fight the Devil head on'
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/CNN_Vatican_needs_more_exorcists_to_0205.html
Shadenfreude followed by nausea.
pegrod99 @ 29:
Sinclair Lewis?
Radically Moderate @ 66:
Duke was elected with an R next to his name there's no denying it.
gotta go, will check back later
"Last word, freak.' - Melvin Udall
out
Can't Huck go out there and calmly explain that he hates fags, too -- but he hates them in his own way? Why can't Phelps respect that?
Andy K @ 44:
y thank you AndyK.......you're a veritable cornacopia of info and knowledge..........and you're a pretty nice person too...
not that I'm sayin you're pretty.....:)
Oh man I needed a good laugh.
CD @ 73:
I guess my point is that there are many Repugs these days carrying crosses and spewing hatred towards other religions or those with no religion believing that God will look favorably upon them somehow or someway.
I work in Kirkwood Mo. and today I talked with people who knew Cookie Thornton the creep that killed 5 people at an Alderman Meeting.
I do not know what party he supported however everyone said he was a very religeous man saying "god bless you" to many he met but he had a profound hatred for authority.
Thorntons Brother said he was justified going to war against city hall......WTF! I knew the Woman that was killed and I knew another Alderman that escaped. I talked to a Business Owner who was there last night who called it a slaughter. It seems to me that waaaay to much evil is placed at the feet of God in order to justify hatred!
I'm not pissed, I'm just confused!
I'm impressed.
mudshark @ 76:
Yes, thanks for the info! The Urban Dictionary is "teh" shit. Word.
Religion. So much hate... so little time 'til the rapture.
Attention Whore - Label given to any person who craves attention to such an extent that they will do anything to receive it. The type of attention (negative or positive) does not matter.
See Westboro Church.
Honestly, I think Fred Phelps must be gay (not that there's anything wrong with that). I think he doth protest too much.
why are you giving these people coverage at all?
Not only religious yahoos, lawyers to boot. Fred Phelps may have been disbarred. But a number of his spawn are active lawyers. They just keep trying to push societies boundaries aching for a chance to sue.
They're anti-anything that will provoke people enough to give them that chance. Anti-Gay, anti-Semitic, anti-flag, anti-Irish, anti-Swedish... (Anti-Swedish?)
MS @ 83:
One of his sons (who's escaped the cult) explained that he doesn't think Fred is gay he thinks Fred's mind is mis-wired so to speak and the only time Fred is happy is when he's making others suffer.
Fred Phelps and his "congregation" are about as repulsive, next to Bush and Cheney, as you can get.
He, Phelps, is a hate monger dressed in clerics garb. He is hated by everyone in Kansas and Missouri and is considered more of a freak than anything else.
His "congregation" consists of nothing more than his immediate inbred family. Nothing more. He somehow gets religious tax breaks because he claims to be some sort of parson or what ever.
He is nothing more than a hate filled bigot who spouts nothing but vile lies.
He claims that God hates "faggots".
God so loved his people that he sent his only son....
Fuck you Phelps.
Phelps hates Jesus and everything He stands for.
Yes, Fred Phelps and his minions are insane/demented/brainwashed BUT they do way more good than they could ever imagine. I live near Topeka and we've had to witness their antics over and over, but think about it, NOBODY squares their shoulders and says, "Yeah, I'm with the Phelpses." People who are somewhat homophobic, or otherwise backward thinking, and those who have never really thought about it, are all drawn into the conversation and all but the occasional crazyass oddball come to the conclusion that the Phelpses are hateful and wrong. And the anti-Phelps actions that raise money for local GLBT groups are creative and priceless. You gotta read this (link below). It's one of the best stories I've ever heard:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A48197-2004Nov13?language=printer
Did everyone notice the sign "God is Your Enemy" These people are the anti-Christ.
They live by hate and they'll die with hate in their hearts. Theres a hot spot in hell just waiting for them.
Where's a tornado when you need one?
Ruthless People @ 90:
...I don't hate them, I hate their sin.
Fred will be caught sharing a meth pipe with Haggard and blowing Larry Craig by the end of the week.
These people are just plain nuts. They should be vilified everywhere and sent into secure mental health facilities. But we might look at it as the riechst wingnuts attacking their own. That can't be bad, because there are still thousands of silent supporters out there who secretly applaud these beliefs. Will they not be happy until Hitler himself comes back to kill us all?
Ruthless People @ 92:
...me thinks the lady doth protest too much.
Bet they vote Republiucan.
Ruthless People @ 93:
He could do it in front of his entire cult and tell them it didn't happen.
They'd believe him.
May the Phelpsters and Hucksters devour each other without harming bystanders.
(It's a slim hope, sure, but still.)
christy kennedy @ 89:
Thanks for that; I'm glad Phelps' psychotic hatred, as dangerous as it is, is also indirectly beneficial to some extent. It's just that if Phelps wasn't also pissing fire and brimstone at soldiers' funerals, he'd still be the darling of the Pat Buchanan crowd.
All just trailer trash.......where is a tornado when you really need one?
I bet you that Phelps is a government op and that his role is to set the precidence to have the goverment pass laws to limit religous speech.
Just goes to show you that Huckabee is NOT a religious fanatic!
Don't forget that Fred Phelps ran three times in the Democratic primaries for the Governor of Kansas (90, 94, 98) and that he also ran in the Democratic primary in Kansas for US Senator in 92.
The sad part is that he actually got 30% of the vote in that Senate primary.
freespeak @ 101:
Compared against Phelps, that ain't saying much.
It's official: Phred Phelps has officially jumped the shark.
Bob Kincaid @ 104:
Pitty the shark didn't get him lol
Oh yeah,I wanna be a holy hater when I grow up.
...keeps the juices flowing,I hear.
The saddest part is they have young kids with them.
CD @ 86:
A couple of his kids who escaped the cult have also made allegations of physical abuse and sexual molestation against big bad Fred. Of course it is entirely credible because the self-righteous are always trying to hide something.
Time to give the Westboro Baptist Church folks
a tour of some of the 'peaceful' provinces of Iraq
and let them 'preach' there
When will people wise up and realize that this is exactly the kind of publicity the church is looking for.
Just ignore them.
I give thanks that these folks do not know how to fly 747's.
Are they on Bush's no fly list?
so, huckabee is either gay, a pedophile, or an aids victim, and this is some kind of guessing game kind of thingy then?
After fred dies, I will post the gps coordinates to his grave so that everyone else can join me in pissing on it! ;-)
Westboro protesting Huckleberry for not hating gays enough? Do those people not have jobs?
christy kennedy @ 89:
great article - thanks!
Dahgrostab'ph-r-i @ 3:
you fool. this is precisely what they say about those of us who are different from them in any way.
And i'm mildly depressed that Crooks and Liars can "chuckle" at such hatred in the human race. Sorry, but that's fucked up.
otto @ 116:
I didn't chuckle at their hatred, did you actually read the post? I acknowledged that they are repulsive people, but found it funny they would be protesting a man whose views on homosexuality are very close to their own. There's a big difference.
If crooksandliars can't see the difference between Westburo Baptist and Mike Huckabee, then you guys are more or less useless for political information.
Know what I'd love to see?
Since there usually is only about a dozen or so of these inbred Westboro Baptist lizard brains protesting, I'd like to see a counter protest of about a hundred or so Gay men all dressed up in either Drag, Village People gear, assless leather chaps, bondage gear and with Rainbow flags everywhere.
Those Westboro kooks would all go into seizures at the sight of it all.
Kevin @ 118:
the article is pretty specific about "homophobic religious fanatics protesting another homophobic religious fanatic". crooksandliars is ahead of the curve, if not slightly biased. :)
enough @ 94:
Mental health facilities is where they would be if, Raygun hadn't emptied all these people on the street. Repugs can't be bothered with people who need help. Phelps and crew will end up killing somebody before this is over, thanks to Raygun and the rest of you rightwing thugs.
The words used on Fred Phelps posters are the same words that other baptists say in their prayers. Fred Phelps and Mike Huckabee are both insane with hate, but only one of them is delusional enough to think God wants him to be President.
The Phelps group used to just protest gays and their allies at rally's, etc.
They branched out. The only thing they're rally concerned about is their right to free speech and money. Phelp's 2 daughter and husbands are lawyers. They intend to press and press hate everywhere under the guise of their's (and others) interprtation that gays are immoral-and they hope to be attacked by others, allowing them to file a law suit. Thjys make a lot of money and it's how they make enough as well to go around the country getting "famous."
Americans didn't stand up much when these horrible attacks (using thier little kids to protest hate) were strickly aimed at gays and their protest projects. Since the group moved to include military funerals and other venues to spew their hate, America seems to be paying more attention. One soldiers father recently sued Phelp's group and won. A gay person bringing suit has never won.
In a small way, Phelp's is helping progressives. They do a lot of emotional and spiritual damage to young and old in the process.
azureblue @ 88:
Ain't that the truth.
Phelps is like Bizarro Jesus.
Gee, for a group that claims that they hate gay people, they sure do have a lot of images of dudes having sex on their placards.
IdahoMoe @ 12:
Fag (yellow ribbon?) troops! Bring our fag soldiers home? I thought there weren't any fags allowed in the military.. If you look at the people holding these ridiculous statements one can only think, "Ahh, Kansas". At least one of them got it right, if these people and a host of others whose "ideals" continue to flourish then indeed The World is Doomed.
This ain't exactly new. I remember about 15 years ago hearing about anti-abortion evangelicals going to church in another's anti-abortion evangelical's church, just to disrupt the services by calling them not anti-abortion enough.
dave rywall Says:
"WHY DOES THE MEDIA COVER THESE JACKASSES?"
Same reason blogs cover them...for attention!
When Phelps finally kicks the bucket, would it be really wrong of me to send a bouquet of pansies to the funeral?
To quote Nelson Muntz; Ha! Ha! Phelps is an embarassment to Christian conservatives. The only difference between Phelps' religious belief and Huckabee's is Phelps is less subtle. This is the true face of Christianity in all its ugliness.
Fox Conscience @ 2:
It makes sense if you look at it this way: The people of Westboro are addicted to protesting. They couldn't care less WHO they protest, so long as it gets them some notice by the media. What a bunch of poor, deluded saps.
Logan Murphy @ 116:
of course I read the post, hence my comment. I can comprehend that you're chuckling at the absurdity of it. All I'm saying is that a sign that says God Hates Fags makes me shudder rather than chuckle.
You might want to "Read that again."
I understand you may not like him for all that he supports. Yes, those signs are
EMBARRASSING to others who align their selves with the God that they supposedly believe in.
I just thought I'd throw this out there ..... because I, um didn't get the "welcome Go V Huck A bee", after a while I got it.
It stands for Gov. [governor] Huckabee.
[[ duh me, lmbo]]
Saw a documentary by an Englishman called Louise Theroux (Spelling?) and he hung out with these idiots for a few days/weeks. He asked lots of good questions to expose their complete lack of humanity, but he didn't ask one question that I would have; when Rev Phelp's daughter proclaimed they didn't care if people hated them because they weren't trying to win souls, the obvious question would have been "Then what's the point in picketing at all? Why not go back to your homes and churches and wait for the rapture?"
And for the record (and for people offended that people could laugh at the irony of the story) I do find it funny the thought of haters protesting haters. Humour is a perfectly valid human way of dealing with all this f**ked up world has to offer.
A swing and a miss, guys!
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