“The reason we’re going is it’s dot-connecting time. The Lord is coming, America is doomed, the wrath of God abides upon the children of disobedience. His wrath appears in the form of these God smacks that are going on all around us.”
–Shameless publicity hound Shirley Phelps-Roper, daughter of hate cult leader Fred Phelps, explaining why the cult is going to picket the Manitoba funeral of Tim McLean, the young man decapitated on a Canadian bus last week, and demonstrating that she apparently doesn’t know that Canada isn’t part of the United States.
(I know, it’s shooting fish in a barrel. But one of the other Phelps follies taking place next week is picketing at a play opening in Toronto. The play is called The Pastor Phelps Project: A fundamentalist cabaret, so you can guess what it’s about. The playwright, Alistair Newton, spoke to the Toronto Globe and Mail, the article about which said:
Not only will The Pastor Phelps Project mock the church’s anti-gay stand, but it will point out “the hypocrisy of the Christian and conservative right wing in North America” for remaining silent when Westboro members picketed funerals of AIDS victims, and objecting only when the church expanded its protests to funerals of soldiers killed in the Iraq war, which it opposes.
To the extent that that’s true, the churches have something to atone for, in not standing up to the cult and for decency earlier. And in any case, it’s important for us to continually indicate our total disapproval of what the cult does and stands for, lest we be thought to be in any way sympathetic to it.)
(Via Religion News Blog.)
The Reformed Pastor 
August 7, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Alistair Newton, of course, is entirely correct. This group picketed the funerals of gay men for years without any public outcry. They traumatized relatives and harassed the few who would speak out. Only when the group started protesting the funerals of veterans did they receive media attention.
One little correction, technically “America” refers to both North and South America so including Canada in that term would be correct. 😉
August 7, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Technically; but keep in mind that Phelps-Roper is a product, whether she likes it or not, of US culture, so when she uses the term “America” she’s really only talking about the United States. 🙂
August 7, 2008 at 5:21 pm
[…] An innocent young victims throat is cut.” The PETA loonies are utter scum, as low as the Phelps-Cult …. […]
August 9, 2008 at 11:20 pm
I find the Phelps phenomenon fascinating. He is being kept alive by the gay lobby, as this doubtlessly terminally silly play will demonstrate. After all, without Phelps, how could the gays keep up their fantasy of victimization and martyrdom, which is central to their propaganda?
If Phelps didn’t exist, the GLBTQwhatnow apologists would invent him.
August 11, 2008 at 7:59 pm
They aren’t going to make it across the border. According to the news stories I’ve heard, our border guards have been given orders to keep them out. (And no, Canada Is Not part of America. North America, yes. America, No.)
August 11, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Or rather, they shouldn’t have made it across the border. Note to self – check date of post before commenting.