WESTBORO BAPTISTS TARGET FORMER U.S. SEN. JOHN EDWARDS

Oh Yes. The Gay's Favourite Group of People (insert sarcasm) are back in the news. They are out to voice their opinion that John Edwards is "cursed" by God.

Edwards, the former Senator for North Carolina, has been part of the campaign to end the U.S. military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding LGBT members of the armed forces.

The WBC claimed on Saturday 16th that Edwards is a "fag enabler", who attacked the WBC for "preaching God's holy truth about fags."

The church also said that Edward's ex-wife, Elizabeth, is a "fornicator-enabler", due to her work as a lawyer, and a "blasphemer".

Edwards recently admitted to having an affair with an employee, resulting in divorce for the couple.

Mrs Edwards has recently been diagnosed with terminal breast cancer.

The WBC regularly picket the funerals of U.S. soldiers, asserting that their deaths are punishment from God for existence of gays and lesbians in America.

The church vowed to use the Edwards' lives as an example of the beliefs of the WBC, saying of them: "You will stand alone - naked and alone - for your Final Judgment, before that holy God in whose face you regularly spit.

"Meanwhile, WBC will picket your funerals, which, especially in the case of Elizabeth, if she is telling the truth about her breast cancer, might not be too far off." [SOURCE]

Man.. This group really needs to be stopped. Are they not committing a Hate Crime? Argg. They make me so angry.

FRED PHELPS GROUP WANTED TO PROTEST CANADIAN FUNERAL

As reported on Friday, Fred Phelp's group were denied access to Canada. We get further wind that the reason they were coming to Canada was to protest a funeral. The man who was brutally murdered on a Greyhound bus in the west of Canada was the subject of their protest.

The Westboro Baptis Church group wanted to protest this funeral and make claims that the reason this happened is because God is unhappy with Canada for their political views on homosexuality. They believe our Country is to lenient on us gays.. hmmm righhhht!!

Despite claims they had thwarted a government ban and had entered Canada, members of an anti-gay group that purports to be a church failed to show up for their threatened protest at the funeral of a man who was stabbed to death and beheaded aboard a Greyhound bus.

Members of Rev. Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., claimed they had successfully entered the country by removing material that referred to the “church” from their vehicles and shipped them by courier to Winnipeg after the material was used to blocked them from another crossing into Manitoba on Thursday.

A directive was sent to border guards last week by Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day to bar the group under Canada’s hate crime law, after Pat Martin, a New Democratic Party member of Parliament from Winnipeg, said he had received hundreds of complaints about the planned protest.

The Phelps group said it would protest at the weekend funeral of Tim McLean to show Canadians that murder was God’s response to liberal Canadian policies toward homosexuality.
A large police contingent was on hand to prevent trouble at the funeral. Earlier in the day, more than 500 Winnipegers filled nearby streets determined to prevent any protest from being seen by mourners.

McLean, 22, was brutally attacked as he sat in his seat on a Greyhound bus traveling west of Winnipeg on July 30. A fellow passenger has been charged with murder. [SOURCE]

ANTI-GAY PHELPS GROUP DENIED ENTRY TO CANADA

LOL.. When I read this I laughed so hard. I don't usually Hate a lot of things but this group, who was founded by Fred Phelps is something I do Hate.. They are down-right disgusting group of people who say they are following God but proclaim Hate.

Anyways.. The great news is that they were barred from entering Canada.. SUCKERS!!!

The Canadian Press and the Canwest News Service both report that the group, from Rev. Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, were turned back when they attempted to enter Canada at a border crossing south of Winnipeg on Thursday.

The Canadian government has not commented on the reports, but Pat Martin, a New Democratic Party member of Parliament from Winnipeg, says he asked Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day to send an alert to the border patrol to look out “for people with signs and pamphlets that fit the hateful messages that the church promotes and to keep them out of the country.”

Canadian hate laws give the government the power to deny entry to people likely to violate the law. The so-called church was listed as a hate group under the law following previous protests.
Phelps, who runs the “God Hates Fags” website, had threatened to picket the Winnipeg funeral of a man decapitated on a Greyhound bus. Another passenger is charged with the sensational killing.

Phelps had threatened to protest the funeral of Tim McLean to show Canadians the murder was God’s response to liberal Canadian policies toward homosexuality.

Shirley Phelps-Roper, Phelps’ daughter and a frequent spokesperson for the “church” confirmed to both Canwest and CP that a small group of protesters was stopped at the Canada-U. S. border Thursday afternoon.

They won’t let us in, but we have a group that will cross in another spot,” she told the Canwest Winnipeg Free Press. “They’ll have to strip search everyone who crosses that border or they won’t know who we are. They’ll have to see the WBC [Westboro Baptist Church] tattoo on our butts.”

In addition to the threatened protest at the McLean funeral the group had said it would demonstrate in Toronto where a satirical play titled “The Pastor Phelps Project” is being performed. No members of the church showed up for the demonstration, which had been planned for Thursday evening. Westboro Baptist members frequently demonstrate at funerals for American servicemembers killed in Iraq. The group claims the deaths are God’s punishment on America for being too pro-gay.

Westboro’s members are made up mostly of Phelps’ relatives. Although it professes to be Baptist it is not affiliated with any national Baptist group.

Westboro operates Web sites including GodHatesFags and GodHatesAmerica and has been described as a cult.

Phelps and the church first came to national attention when he organized a protest by his followers outside the 1998 funeral for Matthew Shepherd, the gay college student who was beaten to death in Wyoming. The killing, Phelps’ protest, and the reaction of townsfolk led to the play “The Laramie Project.”

Church members routinely demonstrate at the funerals of people with AIDS and most recently at the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq. [SOURCE]

Serves them right. I am sorry again they disgust me.

Anyone else agree?