We Don't Want Him, Either

[Aitch]

Fred Phelps and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper from the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) banned from the UK. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/7898972.stm)


Mrs Phelps-Roper told BBC News Online the decision would "bring great wrath upon your heads".

Eek!

Mind you...

She warned other members of the church, who are not as well known to the authorities, will be trying to get into the UK to protest.

"There are members of WBC that are not named Phelps," she added.

Really?:eek:

"So they [the authorities] might have their work cut out for them.
Or they could just bring out all the gay Immigration officers and refuse entry to anyone who starts frothing at the sight of them. :cool:

[Ocelot]

Or they could just bring out all the gay Immigration officers and refuse entry to anyone who starts frothing at the sight of them. :cool:

Assign this lot to border patrol

I_iH1GhM2j8

[Lonewulf]

They're not just crazy fundamentalists, they're ineffective, pretty much idiotic. Two failures here:

1) "God will be wrathful over this!" -- their whole *campaign* is that God Hates Everyone (tm), and causes disasters, both through humans and through the natural, to attack nations over accepting homosexuality or <insert their agenda here>. Claiming that God is still angry and hates them is a pretty ineffective threat, even if one were to accept their woo as real.

2) They let it be known that they're going to attempt to get people into England! That's pretty damn stupid, if they ask me. They're essentially daring English authorities to catch them sneaking in. Westboro Baptist Church has very very few overall members, and they're certainly public enough that I think it's not too difficult to get an idea of who's in their membership.

[Cainkane1]

These people should be unwelcome in any society they try to be a part of. They are hateful and evil to the core.

[Lonewulf]

Assign this lot to border patrol

I_iH1GhM2j8

Bwahahahaha. :D

[cwalner]

Too bad the US Gov't can't just deny them passports on the grounds of National Humiliation or something like that. I mean, really, letting these people travel is the national equivalent of posting pictures of yourself from the 70's on your facebook page.

[Lonewulf]

Too bad the US Gov't can't just deny them passports on the grounds of National Humiliation or something like that. I mean, really, letting these people travel is the national equivalent of posting pictures of yourself from the 70's on your facebook page.

Well, I don't think of him as representing the U.S. any more so than local KKK groups represent the U.S. currently. I say let him travel -- in fact, encourage him to move. He'd be hard pressed to find a single country that's willing to lend a sympathetic ear to him, though -- and not all countries are equal in their views on free speech.

[LibraryLady]

He'd feel so at home in Iran, where there are no homosexuals. I'd contribute to his plane fare there!

[fuelair]

He'd feel so at home in Iran, where there are no homosexuals. I'd contribute to his plane fare there!
Maybe tattoo a crucifix and a pink triangle on his forhead first.:D

[fuelair]

And, what is his head for anyway?

[Aitch]

Oops! Didn't turn out as Fred planned (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/7903344.stm)!


But only one protester arrived and was heckled away by counter-demonstrators.

[geni]

Hampshire is kinda home to one of the safest conservative seats in the country. If you can't get a decent anti gay protest going there it's probably time to give up.

[Beerina]

I thought the government could arrest the guys who heckled him and drove him away, for criticizing his religion and making him feel threatened and/or foolish for believing it?

[Beerina]

Wait, Shirley Phelps-Roper?!?!?


I thought a woman took her husband's name and all that. Isn't retaining her father's name being a little bit haughty for a female, and not showing proper submission to her husband? How dare she, the female of the house, think herself so important that she eclipses her husband's endeavors to establish a family in Good Standing with God.

She...she'll make him look like a house husband for Christ's sake! That she wears the pants in the family. That she is the one specialized in teaching the family about what God wants. That she is in a position to teach men, very adult men, about religion and lead them.

No no no, that can't be right. There's something I'm missing.

[sleepy_lioness]

You thought wrong. There's no legal protection for anti-gay bigotry, however you seek to justify it (religious or not).

[biomorph]

Hampshire is kinda home to one of the safest conservative seats in the country. If you can't get a decent anti gay protest going there it's probably time to give up.

Well come on, Basingstoke for goodness sake......hardly a bastion of the image that Hants County Council puts forward.

I'd probably not label Basingstoke as a hot bed of anything, never mind religious activity to the point of protesting about gays. Basingstoke is also a pretty modern town generally, in that sort of regard..ie its pretty much atheistic, and up with the times regarding rights etc. Lots of young people in basingstoke too.

I lived there for a while, but hell, things change.



It's hardly Winchester.

As only one turned up, you seem to be correct.:D

ETA: They ought to have let them in and moved the venue to somewhere like, um , Brighton. they'd go down a storm there, plenty of sinners there.....they probably would've not even got off the bus (hopefully one with the atheist ad on!).......Brightons gay population is pretty er, vocal shall we say...

[shadron]

Wait, Shirley Phelps-Roper?!?!?


I thought a woman took her husband's name and all that. Isn't retaining her father's name being a little bit haughty for a female, and not showing proper submission to her husband? How dare she, the female of the house, think herself so important that she eclipses her husband's endeavors to establish a family in Good Standing with God.

She...she'll make him look like a house husband for Christ's sake! That she wears the pants in the family. That she is the one specialized in teaching the family about what God wants. That she is in a position to teach men, very adult men, about religion and lead them.

No no no, that can't be right. There's something I'm missing.

Sometimes, just sometimes, ego trumps the Bible. Who'da thunk it?

--Cpt. Obvious

[MG1962]

I thought the government could arrest the guys who heckled him and drove him away, for criticizing his religion and making him feel threatened and/or foolish for believing it?

In Kansas....and I am guessing a few other states. It was made illegal for uninvited guests to get closer than 150 feet to the grave service

I think there is also a Federal law that prohibits protests within about 300 feet or so of a military funeral

Then there is the Patriot Guard Riders...gotta love ya work guys.

[Wildy]

Apparently they never made it to Australia either.

[Lord Emsworth]

Wait, Shirley Phelps-Roper?!?!?


I thought a woman took her husband's name and all that. Isn't retaining her father's name being a little bit haughty for a female, and not showing proper submission to her husband? How dare she, the female of the house, think herself so important that she eclipses her husband's endeavors to establish a family in Good Standing with God.

She...she'll make him look like a house husband for Christ's sake! That she wears the pants in the family. That she is the one specialized in teaching the family about what God wants. That she is in a position to teach men, very adult men, about religion and lead them.

No no no, that can't be right. There's something I'm missing.

Yeah, God hates you.