Between and , WBC focused much of its attention on picketing Jewish institutions around the country, from Israeli consulates to synagogues to Jewish community centers. Numerous states and localities have passed laws creating buffer zones to keep protestors at a distance from funerals, and limit protests for several hours before and after the services.
There are also federal laws curtailing protests at funerals. The law includes a provision requiring protestors to remain a certain distance from a military funeral and also bans protests two hours before and after a service. WBC has challenged a number of these laws. In , WBC filed a lawsuit questioning the constitutionality of a Nebraska law banning protests at funerals within feet of the service, starting one hour prior to the event until two hours after the event ends.
In , a federal district court sided with Nebraska in the case, and in November , the U. WBC has a robust social media presence and maintains numerous websites, Facebook pages and Twitter accounts. The group continues its regular picketing campaign, protesting various events and institutions around the country.
And all the riches of the world will not buy him one drop of water to cool his tongue. It will damn the soul, destroy the life, and doom any nation that tolerates such ev il. God Hates Fags is a profound theological statement, which America needs more than it needs oxygen or bread. A black dyke! An abomination! Me lots smarter now. Me be Deputy Mayor This crowd could dumb down the Western Hemisphere.
The named individual is an African-American city council member in Topeka, Kansas. Here Come De Judge!!! Westboro Baptists will picket this black obfuscator, in religious protest and warning. Being black won't get you to Heaven. But promoting fags will take you to Hell. But most of us are sick and tired of self-flagellation.
Shall a few isolated racist acts keep us all in sackcloth forever, repenting the sins of slave-owning ancestors? They are cowardly, lukewarm, and ashamed of Christ's Word. They have substituted their own pathetic ideas for God's clear commandments Don't listen to the money-grubbing heretic who stands at the front of your church. Listen to God. Any church that ordains fags is a fag church Any church that marries fags is a fag church Because they have created an atmosphere in this world where people believe the lie that God loves everybody.
This soul-damning lie is the reason that fags are so out-spoken today. Fag priests and dyke nuns is the order of the day for Kansas Catholics. They deserve the sick, perverted leadership that now dooms and damns them.
Botton [sic] line in approximations: one-third are gay, one-third are womanizers, and -- with important exceptions -- the other third mostly covers, pimps and enables the lust-driven two-thirds. Catherine's Catholic Churches in Emporia in religious protest and warning. Mexican idolaters worship bloody rectums These Satanic evangelists from Hell They are not true churches of Jesus Christ.
Must be a comfort to you sodomite Episcopalians, that your Catamite church was founded by a faggot king butt - buddy to Rev. Erasmus of Rotterdam Episcopalians hate God. The Sovereign Horseman rides in New Orleans Get Right with God! You are pouring gasoline on the raging infernos of God's wrath in Iraq and New Orleans Nothing less will do. Otherwise, we warn you again: Expect worse and more of it from that Outraged God your sins have mightily offended.
The Tsunami is a curse! Your children shooting each other in the schools is a curse! A child coming home dead from the battle is a curse! Katrina the whirlwind is a curse! The US Supreme Court, blindly demanding that the people of this nation give respect to filthy beasts, when God has said they are an abomination, is a curse!
This nation is cursed by God and we are doing out duty to warn you that if you will repent and turn from your evil ways — from worshiping the words of your own hands and worshiping that flag and the military and dead bodies A sodomite nation of flag-worshiping idolaters. Many States — and now Congress — are moving in a frenzied orgy of lawless, unconstitutional legislation to criminalize WBC's Gospel preaching.
Worse and more of it is coming Military funerals are pagan orgies of idolatrous blasphemy where they pray to the dunghill gods of Sodom and play taps to a fallen fool. Thank God for 4 more dead troops. That tells you how deeply engrained complementary behavior is. MPR: Growing up at Westboro, you understand that if somebody leaves, you are completely cut off.
You have no interaction with them whatsoever. You have, completely, demonized them. So, you understand, I still dearly loved these people, and had this sense that I would be betraying them, and that I would be fulfilling this Bible passage that they would reference: Oh, that mine enemy had written a book.
People who were among them, who had been a part of them, who leave, they are the worst of all groups. More than people in the LGBT community, or Jewish people, more than other Christians, the most demonized are ex-members who talk about it. Getting over that feeling was really difficult. The thing that got me over that was that I initially started writing, and I wrote an essay for my husband.
Because the destructive things that I had learned were becoming an issue in our relationship. That was the beginning of the book, actually. That was one of the first things that I wrote. JAS: So, the book began as an act of empathy—to try to be understood. You were part of an in-group that was very, very insular, that had very internally consistent, extremist beliefs. Then you had contact with the outside world, and you had an experience that no one outside of that in-group could understand.
And you wanted to be understood, starting with your husband. MPR: Yeah, exactly. I have a friend who writes about ISIS. Which is to say, to be true—to represent their actual beliefs, their actual intentions, the actual way that they operate, and not some narrative that people want to hear. Deeply flawed, deeply misguided—but just human beings like everybody else, the product of their experiences and their biology, and their circumstances.
Your book does that beautifully, especially with your mother, who really comes to life. I see this a lot on Twitter. There is an instinct, I think, to isolate people with terrible ideas. We want to isolate them. I would reply that seeing the humanity is not for its own sake. It needs to be a part of our language, and a part of our culture—why have we rejected the ideas of these groups?
What specifically is wrong with them? It tends to just fester. We faced constant opposition, constant shaming, people being violent toward us, driving their cars toward us, people throwing things at us, and it was constant from the time we started picketing when I was five years old to when I began on Twitter.
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