03/14/2010 01:37:36 PM EST

Shirley Phelps-Roper from God Hates Fags Westboro Baptist Church Goes Crazy

posted by celtics23

We all known the God Hates Fags church that protests soldiers' funerals...for the first time, the SCOTUS will actually hear a case involving them and hopefully put an end to their insanity.

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Caught this video from a couple of days ago, host does a good job with her but she is unfettered, downright nuts: http://www.midweekpolitics. com/
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Shirley Phelps-Roper from God Hates Fags Westboro Baptist Church Goes Crazy | 7 comments (7 topical, 0 hidden)
He did do a good job,... (none / 1)

...and she did a pretty good job also.  She was more colorful in her informal language (a cup of "shut the Hell up"), but if you believe as she does (which I do not), she wasn't a terrible spokesperson for those values.

  Anyone hear of any stories about rabbis raping children?  We should be cognizant of them if they exist...

by Milltycoon on 03/14/2010 04:28:45 PM EST

"Goes crazy?" (none / 2)
The phrase you are searching for is "stays crazy."

by OneHitKill on 03/14/2010 09:36:04 PM EST

It's an old story. (none / 0)
She's just a dime-a-dozen control freak.  Unfortunately, their numbers make them dangerous.

There are lots -- too many -- of these emotionally crippled people around who, because they want to blame others for what they think is lacking in their own lives, try to use religion or patriotism or money or <name your poison here> to get others to do what they want.  Similarly to the pseudo-patriots, who rob their fellow citizens of their rights for the sake of a level of security which they forfeit by doing so, the religious fanatics violate the fundamental principles of their religions by demanding that others conform to their wishes.  Both of these groups are so deep in denial that they can't see what utter hypocrites they are.

Education is the only way out of this -- and by that I mean "liberal education", the kind that teaches you how to think.  But we've made education so expensive by not treating it as the public utility and necessity that it is that we've had to throw out much of what makes education useful in favor of teaching rote skills.  By dumbing down the schools over the past several decades, we've allowed religion to flourish, and the religious to take control of our educational system so much that many people still believe that evolution is a matter of opinion, and that the Bible might actually have something valuable to say about how the Earth was formed.

It's going to be a long time until we are finally able to throw off the insanely crippling effects of religion.  One of the first things that we're going to have to do is to quit protecting it.  We must be allowed to discriminate against people who eschew reality for religion and the rights of others for their own fears.  What these people want is to feel loved; we need to improve the mental health of our culture, but we must also protect ourselves from the insane.

by EveningStarNM on 03/14/2010 11:10:39 PM EST

Any bets (none / 0)

that SCROTUS finds against the Phelps group?

Of course Phelps could start GodHatesFags Inc.

No worries, anything goes.

by MRFred on 03/15/2010 01:26:57 PM EST

Hmm.. (none / 0)
I wish they would, but I think that more likely they will find in favor of God Hates Fags.

by celtics23 on 03/15/2010 01:52:23 PM EST

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Clarnece Thomas - the SCROTUS pretender (none / 0)
who believes himself a god does hate Gays

How Justice Clarence Thomas Screwed Gay Rights and Democracy

by Michael A. Jones

category: Marriage Equality

Published January 22, 2010 @ 04:00PM PT

It's not often that America's most rabidly right-wing Justice gets to attack two things at once. But yesterday, Justice Clarence Thomas figured out how not only to dismantle the people-powered principles of democracy, but he also got to trash on the gays, too, suggesting that LGBT people were nothing more than violent, vengeful vixens.

By now almost everyone and their corporate crony boss has heard about the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the 5-4 decision released yesterday which said that corporations can pour as much money as they darn well please into election campaigns. Keith Olbermann called it the end of democracy. Corporations salivated as if they were served the best filet mignon in the world.

Justice Clarence Thomas? He just did a little dance, because the case allowed him to throw a bone to his corporate friends, and throw a bomb at LGBT activists. Turns out that there are bad Supreme Court decisions. And then there are dissenting opinions from Justice Thomas that are even worse.

Don't get us wrong -- when we say dissenting, we don't mean in a good way. See, Justice Thomas was down with the idea of giving corporate actors free reign when it comes to election spending. He dissented because he wanted to take the ruling even further to say that not only can corporate actors spend willy-nilly, but they should be able to do so anonymously without disclosing their identity.

And to put a cherry on top of that decision, Justice Thomas blamed the rationale behind it on LGBT people!

Seriously, Justice Clarence Thomas uses the right-wing myth that after California passed Proposition 8, LGBT people started going all V for Vendetta on supporters of traditional marriage. So that corporate donors don't face such violent (albeit mythological) wraths in the future, Justice Thomas wants corporate donations to be kept behind lock and key.

"Any donor who gave more than $100 to any committee supporting or opposing Proposition 8 was required to disclose his full name, street address, occupation, employer's name ... and the total amount of his contributions," Justice Thomas wrote. "Some opponents of Proposition 8 compiled this information and created Web sites with maps showing the locations of homes or businesses of Proposition 8 supporters. Many supporters (or their customers) suffered property damage, or threats of physical violence or death, as a result."

Funny, but I don't seem to remember anyone being killed in the wake of Proposition 8. But it's almost like Justice Thomas was channeling Ron Prentice with this language. Maybe he was -- hell, it wouldn't be all that surprising to me if Justice Thomas called up the Yes on 8 folks and said, "Hey, can you feed me a few lines here?"

There are abysmal Supreme Court rulings, from Dred Scott to Bush v. Gore, and Citizens United v. FEC is eventually going to join those ranks when the history books are written. Meanwhile, Justice Thomas will be remembered as the guy who not only gave corporations a free pass, but tried to conjure up false evidence that LGBT people are violent thugs to justify it.

Accountability. Maybe it's a term that Justice Thomas missed during his school days.

But when you stop and think about Justice Thomas' decision, there's an even more bitter (and snarky) piece of irony. From what we can tell, Justice Thomas thinks that political donors who want to contribute to campaigns that undermine the civil rights of folks should remain anonymous, lest they face harassment.

Maybe, for Justice Thomas, harassment is only permissible if it's happening inside his office. Anybody want to pass me that can of Coke over there ...
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Clarence Thomas Speaks-to Engage in Anti-Gay Fearmongering

by gatekeeper50 on 03/15/2010 02:46:42 PM EST

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Blimey! (none / 0)
Now even God is against smoking?

"The first thing Fascists usually try to do is silencing the opposition."

by opposition on 03/16/2010 06:21:37 AM EST

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