Taking It to the Limit, One More Time
Can the man sink any lower?
After all, we鈥檙e talking about a fellow who , shouting that they are being punished by God for somehow helping America in its 鈥渇---enabling鈥� ways. A man whose own children have . A 鈥減astor鈥� who has celebrated the deaths of coal miners trapped beneath the earth, children killed in school bus accidents, even the thousands murdered on Sept. 11, 2001. The language he employs in his sermons attacking homosexuality 鈥� versions of which have been hissed at passing children by his followers 鈥� is so disgusting that it is unprintable in the major media.
But now , who runs the (WBC) of Topeka, Kansas, and the infamous GodHatesF---聽website, has taken another step down into the slime. His latest, posted last week on Friday the 13th, is The WBC Video News production opens to the strains of a hymn.
Then Phelps launches into it. It turns out that God isn鈥檛 really so angry about 鈥渆nabling f---.鈥� No, it鈥檚 the persecution of Phelps that drew his ire.
鈥淭hank God for the four dead Boy Scouts,鈥� Phelps starts out, referring to the Scouts killed by a June 12 tornado at a Scout retreat in Iowa. The boys, Phelps said, were 鈥渒illed by an angry God in retaliatory vengeance against Nebraska and Iowa for their persecution of Westboro Baptist Church only because we preach the gospel to them. You lifted your hands against the Lord鈥檚 servants and, just as he promised, God avenged his servants by using his favorite weapons 鈥� his killer tornadoes 鈥� to kill your kids. Get it through your thick heads. God hates Nebraska and God hates Iowa. 鈥Y]ou can expect more and worse wrath from an angry God. 鈥� Westboro Baptist Church will picket the funerals of the four dead Boy Scouts. Amen.鈥�
Had enough yet from the man who also runs the Catholic-bashing PriestsRapeBoys website yet? Well, there鈥檚 always YourPastorIsAW----, a website that鈥檚 still under construction. 鈥淵our pastor is a w----,鈥� Pastor Phelps writes in the promotional blurb now occupying Westboro Baptist Church鈥檚 latest site. 鈥淵ou know it鈥檚 true.鈥�
