WBC to Protest Gay Marriage on June 16th in SF
WBC to Protest Gay Marriage on June 16th in SF
Fabrizio2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/20/06
#1WBC to Protest Gay Marriage on June 16th in SF
Posted: 6/4/08 at 11:28pm
We all knew it was going to happen. I don't usually check their site, in fact I don't at all, but someone posted the link on facebook:
http://www.godhatesfags.com/written/fliers/20080603_california-fag-marriage.pdf
While also snooping around on the website, I found out that they were protesting a Southern Baptist Convention, which seems redundant and odd to me, but I'm sure they've come up with some twisted reason for doing so.
Tonight I'm going to call them and play Patti's Rose's Turn from youtube! LUPWN!
Updated On: 6/4/08 at 11:28 PM
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#2re: WBC to Protest Gay Marriage on June 16th in SF
Posted: 6/4/08 at 11:30pmAt least they're not at someone's funeral.
#2re: WBC to Protest Gay Marriage on June 16th in SF
Posted: 6/4/08 at 11:34pm
they dont quit do they?
but agreed as least its not a funeral. its insensitive and honestly a little unfair since the dead cant rebutt
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Trekkie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/7/06
#3re: WBC to Protest Gay Marriage on June 16th in SF
Posted: 6/4/08 at 11:38pmNo big surprise. They've become very predictable.
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#4re: WBC to Protest Gay Marriage on June 16th in SF
Posted: 6/4/08 at 11:42pm
Agreed Shbrt.
Besides, I don't think this will have any effect really. Homophobes and gay people think they're out of they're minds.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#5re: WBC to Protest Gay Marriage on June 16th in SF
Posted: 6/4/08 at 11:50pmThey are out of their minds. Particularly Shirley Phelps-Roper.
#6re: WBC to Protest Gay Marriage on June 16th in SF
Posted: 6/4/08 at 11:55pm
thats the wife right? fred phelps is insane as well.
they shld lighten up and go see Broadway. tho they might end up picketing BW with their "GOD HATE BROADWAY" signs, if they dont have one already
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ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#7re: WBC to Protest Gay Marriage on June 16th in SF
Posted: 6/4/08 at 11:59pm
She's his daughter. He's insane too but she's just so absolutely demented it's frightening. I think he's more obviously driven by self-loathing, and I truly believe he's a repressed homosexual. Why else have tons of kids if not to prove to yourself that you're straight?
I'm sure they're against musical theatre. After all, there are evil gays involved in it.
#8re: WBC to Protest Gay Marriage on June 16th in SF
Posted: 6/5/08 at 12:13am
yup im pretty sure we are all fag enablers just by being on this forum. God Hates BroadwayWorld Forums!
did u see the family on the tyra banks show some time back? The kids are seriously brainwashed, and honestly i feel sorry, if anything, for the little kids who follow them around holding all their messages of hate. God hates this...God hates that...yeah yeah
after seeing such depravity, maybe God hates Himself too.
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roquat
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/25/05
#9re: WBC to Protest Gay Marriage on June 16th in SF
Posted: 6/5/08 at 12:24amThey regularly picket musicals and concerts, because such events are bound to be crawling with gay people--there's a twisted logic to it, I guess. Miserable creeps.
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#10re: WBC to Protest Gay Marriage on June 16th in SF
Posted: 6/5/08 at 12:29am
I feel this is completely relevant (and possibly recycled)
http://youtube.com/user/godhatesmusicals
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I took the one less traveled by,
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#11re: WBC to Protest Gay Marriage on June 16th in SF
Posted: 6/5/08 at 12:40am
hahaha "fagging up the footlights!"
god that had me in stitches
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#12re: WBC to Protest Gay Marriage on June 16th in SF
Posted: 6/5/08 at 12:43amps. No intention of being insensitive here either.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I?
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
#13re: WBC to Protest Gay Marriage on June 16th in SF
Posted: 6/5/08 at 12:58am
With his kids you push a button and get a pre-recorded response. That's it. They have no thoughts of their own. Just what's been "recorded".
When I was in college this gang showed up on my campus to picket on the steps of the library. We had given an honorary degree to Billie Jean King which mean we were "enabling" her to be homosexual. Because the campus had an arboretum on it the property was considered public so they could come and go as they wished.
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We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#14re: WBC to Protest Gay Marriage on June 16th in SF
Posted: 6/5/08 at 2:10am
Yes, religious groups like this deserve no respect at all. It is their opinion if they are against same sex marriages and other similar things, but it is just wrong to be rude about it.
Yeah, we had a similar group come on my campus last year protesting too. They caused chaos on the streets. I'm surprised nobody got injured or there wasn't a huge riot. I think this group was called Repent America. They were dumb too because you could see on their signs that they spelled homosexuals wrong at first, having it say homeosexuals. And thieves was spelled wrong too, but not fixed. I just don't remember how it was spelled at the top of my head.
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#15re: WBC to Protest Gay Marriage on June 16th in SF
Posted: 6/5/08 at 2:25am
Um... why should they even care? They're in Kansas.
'course, logic's never really been one of the WBC's strong points, but still...
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JbaraFan1
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/04
#16re: WBC to Protest Gay Marriage on June 16th in SF
Posted: 6/5/08 at 3:23amI watched a documentary on this group via Netflix Watch Now. I already knew they were nutjobs, but wow. According to the doc, the only members left of this church are all within that family, either born into it or married into it. They're in their own little perverted world. A few of Phelps' grown children left the group, and they are heard via phone messages on the film. One daughter said that she believes he is addicted to anger and can't function unless he is mad about something. It was awful watching the children participate in the protests. If there's a God (and I believe there is), those adults will answer some day, for spreading hatred in the first place, and also for teaching young children to spread hatred.
#17re: WBC to Protest Gay Marriage on June 16th in SF
Posted: 6/5/08 at 8:16am
Louis Theroux did a documentary on this family called "the most hated family in america"(if you can find it, watch it it was amazing)They had me lost for words, i just could not believe people could actually picket a soilders funeral. Or anyones for that matter.
Well, if God is real, let's hope they see His fury when they die..
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ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#18re: WBC to Protest Gay Marriage on June 16th in SF
Posted: 6/5/08 at 9:45amI watched that. It's just impossible to speak to Shirley Phelps-Roper. I understand that she's so used to people attacking her that she's always on the defensive, but she never actually LISTENS to what people say to her. She just starts spewing things that make no sense at them.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#19re: WBC to Protest Gay Marriage on June 16th in SF
Posted: 6/5/08 at 9:47amThey're bigger publicity whores than Paris Hilton and Britney Spears put together. They're a tiny cult. They should be ignored. By everyone.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
JbaraFan1
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#20re: WBC to Protest Gay Marriage on June 16th in SF
Posted: 6/5/08 at 10:06am
Wise words, Borstalboy.
The doc that I watched on Netflix is called "Fall from Grace," directed by K. Ryan Jones, 2007. I haven't seen the other one.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#21re: WBC to Protest Gay Marriage on June 16th in SF
Posted: 6/5/08 at 10:15amSeriously, though. They make the Branch Davidians look like Islam.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#22re: WBC to Protest Gay Marriage on June 16th in SF
Posted: 6/5/08 at 10:38amI disagree. I wish they would get a BUNCH of coverage. I think they would swing people to vote for gay marriage rights.
#23re: WBC to Protest Gay Marriage on June 16th in SF
Posted: 6/5/08 at 10:44am
Picketing soldiers' (and Reagan's) funerals made them the most hated family in America.
Most of the right-wing blowhards didn't care a fig about them when they were just picketing the funerals of the fags and the celebrities. When they were picketing Reagan's funeral, Sean Hannity didn't even know who they were and called them a bunch of "liberal protesters."
Sure, Jerry Falwell spoke out against them after Matthew Shepherd, but that was part of his PR damage control when he pretended for a bit that he wanted to tone down the rhetoric. As we saw after Sept. 11, he never really did.
That being said, these people don't make me mad. They're clowns. The only thing truly bad about them is they give the homophobes something extreme to condemn to give some sort of air of validity to the "love the sinner, hate the sin" nonsense.
theatreboi11
Broadway Star Joined: 5/9/05
#24re: WBC to Protest Gay Marriage on June 16th in SF
Posted: 6/5/08 at 11:16amFabrizio, when they announced that they would be protesting the memorial for the shooting victims at Northern Illinois University, I called for about an hour playing "If you were gay." They woman answering the phone was getting pissed! haha.
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