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29 Mar 2014, 7:06 pm

ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:
Just when I thought WBC wouldn't be returning they are going to do a protest/picket a few blocks from my home on April 5th over this sign:

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It's an ad for a liquor store in case you are wondering and they are going to picket the liquor store.


Really? that's not on their website


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29 Mar 2014, 11:14 pm

Feralucce wrote:
ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:
Just when I thought WBC wouldn't be returning they are going to do a protest/picket a few blocks from my home on April 5th over this sign:

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It's an ad for a liquor store in case you are wondering and they are going to picket the liquor store.


Really? that's not on their website

They are supposedly stopping on their way to Ft Worth Texas. We'll see if they really do since they have a habit of saying they will and then not showing up.



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30 Mar 2014, 12:01 am

but they didn't say they will...


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30 Mar 2014, 12:08 am

Feralucce wrote:
but they didn't say they will...

They told the owner of the store they are going to stop by and talk to him in person on their way to Ft Worth.



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30 Mar 2014, 5:16 am

Everyone's acting like he's such a horrible person but I thought he did more good for the gay community than he did bad? Considering his "church" never expanded at all and had very few members (having said that, why did he get so much publicity?) I'd like to think everyone would just look at him thinking "Wait a minute.. why do we hate gay people again? This makes no sense.." Sure, he was a hate-filled man but he did more good than bad, even if we don't want to recognize it - he turned more people pro-gay than he did anti-gay.


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30 Mar 2014, 5:55 am

When he died it was funny! I jumped for joy knowing this hate filled man is dead and no longer alive and it brings me joy!! I don't care if people get mad at me for saying this but i don't care because hes an evil man, besides death is too kind I would have wished for him to be immortal and in a vegetative state for eternity begging to be killed but being failed to deliver his wishes! I wouldnt mind seeing him revived and strapped to a chair and forced to watch gay porn clock work orange style! HAhahahah!!


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30 Mar 2014, 7:35 am

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Everyone's acting like he's such a horrible person but I thought he did more good for the gay community than he did bad? Considering his "church" never expanded at all and had very few members (having said that, why did he get so much publicity?) I'd like to think everyone would just look at him thinking "Wait a minute.. why do we hate gay people again? This makes no sense.." Sure, he was a hate-filled man but he did more good than bad, even if we don't want to recognize it - he turned more people pro-gay than he did anti-gay.

All he cared about was causing psychological grief to others look at his tactics! His group wasn't just protesting gays. They were trying to create shock, horror and dismay then they said it was for God and in the Bible. It was God's word. They see themselves as the only true Christians but they go by what's in the Old Testament than they do the New. Jesus died for the sins of mankind it means you can be gay if you want.



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30 Mar 2014, 9:42 am

I'm going to use this opportunity of his death to post my fave Awful Truth segment.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d7zuJN_irE[/youtube]



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31 Mar 2014, 2:28 am

ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:
886 wrote:
Everyone's acting like he's such a horrible person but I thought he did more good for the gay community than he did bad? Considering his "church" never expanded at all and had very few members (having said that, why did he get so much publicity?) I'd like to think everyone would just look at him thinking "Wait a minute.. why do we hate gay people again? This makes no sense.." Sure, he was a hate-filled man but he did more good than bad, even if we don't want to recognize it - he turned more people pro-gay than he did anti-gay.

All he cared about was causing psychological grief to others look at his tactics! His group wasn't just protesting gays. They were trying to create shock, horror and dismay then they said it was for God and in the Bible. It was God's word. They see themselves as the only true Christians but they go by what's in the Old Testament than they do the New. Jesus died for the sins of mankind it means you can be gay if you want.


I guess a good counter arguement would be that he did harm to the christian community. Every atheist page likes to quote Fred Phelps like he's an accurate representation of what it means to be christian.


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31 Mar 2014, 2:41 am

886 wrote:
ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:
886 wrote:
Everyone's acting like he's such a horrible person but I thought he did more good for the gay community than he did bad? Considering his "church" never expanded at all and had very few members (having said that, why did he get so much publicity?) I'd like to think everyone would just look at him thinking "Wait a minute.. why do we hate gay people again? This makes no sense.." Sure, he was a hate-filled man but he did more good than bad, even if we don't want to recognize it - he turned more people pro-gay than he did anti-gay.

All he cared about was causing psychological grief to others look at his tactics! His group wasn't just protesting gays. They were trying to create shock, horror and dismay then they said it was for God and in the Bible. It was God's word. They see themselves as the only true Christians but they go by what's in the Old Testament than they do the New. Jesus died for the sins of mankind it means you can be gay if you want.


I guess a good counter arguement would be that he did harm to the christian community. Every atheist page likes to quote Fred Phelps like he's an accurate representation of what it means to be christian.
Yep hes our hero when it comes to deconvrting Christians and freeing them from being thralls to a book of fairytales!


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31 Mar 2014, 11:07 am

the reason he is often quoted is because polls show that a lot of christians agree with his message, if not his methods


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31 Mar 2014, 11:11 am

Feralucce wrote:
the reason he is often quoted is because polls show that a lot of christians agree with his message, if not his methods


Well, I'm clearly a Christian who doesn't agree with either the WBC message or methods. I also know members of the LGBT community who are Christians, and obviously wouldn't agree with those nutso bastards, either.


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31 Mar 2014, 12:41 pm

To be frank, the message 'God is hate' is sufficient to declare Fred and his cult heretics.

But I guess nobody found it worthwhile to do that?



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31 Mar 2014, 12:52 pm

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To be frank, the message 'God is hate' is sufficient to declare Fred and his cult heretics.

But I guess nobody found it worthwhile to do that?


Had Phelps lived in the Middle East, and he ran afoul of standard Islamic doctrine with his hate directed at one or another target, he might very well have. But western Christian culture no longer deems this or that person a heretic in our inclusive society where freedom of speech and expression is cherished, even for a rotten old bastard like Phelps and his cult.


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31 Mar 2014, 3:26 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
Feralucce wrote:
the reason he is often quoted is because polls show that a lot of christians agree with his message, if not his methods


Well, I'm clearly a Christian who doesn't agree with either the WBC message or methods. I also know members of the LGBT community who are Christians, and obviously wouldn't agree with those nutso bastards, either.


And I ask this... what part of "a lot" means all?


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31 Mar 2014, 4:19 pm

Feralucce wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Feralucce wrote:
the reason he is often quoted is because polls show that a lot of christians agree with his message, if not his methods


Well, I'm clearly a Christian who doesn't agree with either the WBC message or methods. I also know members of the LGBT community who are Christians, and obviously wouldn't agree with those nutso bastards, either.


And I ask this... what part of "a lot" means all?


Indeed, Kraichgauer does this a lot. He seems to follow the line that 'my friends and my church are not like that so therefore they must be representative of the majority.'


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