Westboro Baptist Church coming to Winnipeg

[crowdog66]

The Westboro Baptist Church is coming to Winnipeg to protest at the funeral of Tim McLean, the young man slain on the Greyhound bus.

A spokeswoman for the Westboro Baptist Church -- which is known for staging protests at funerals of American soldiers who have died in Iraq -- said seven members will picket outside the Westwood Community Church Saturday to let Canadians know that "God hates you, and it's because of your rebellion against his word that this child is dead."

These are the God Hates Fags website people, and a more thoroughly vile, hate-filled, and slimy group of idiots would be hard to find. If I wasn't up to my eyebrows in a deadline crunch I'd probably be out there ready to counter-protest on Saturday.

I think that the Westboro folks are going to find the Canadian authorities a LOT less tolerant of their publicity-mongering antics than the American authorities are.

Comments

[elaryn.livejournal.com]

I apologise on behalf of my country.

Seriously, talk about "bad will ambassadors." I hope they get tossed out on their creepy, self-righteous ears.

[huushiita.livejournal.com]

*snorffles* I highly doubt that any Pegger's will let them do their 'protesting' peacefully... kinda wish I was there... *shakes head*

[silverjackal.livejournal.com]

JHVH is angry and therefore caused someone to go crazy and slaughter an innocent on a bus to show his disapproval of an entire country? Tch. I would expect an omniscient, omnipresent being to have better means of conveying disapproval. Particularly petty, foul, mentally imbalanced humans, though? I can see them drawing that connection. Now if only these hateful people could be denied entry into Canada.

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

My friend Mark and I had a discussion the other night about these bastards, and while he's normally a very open-hearted person, he said, and I quote, "I honestly think they're about the only group that's really inspired by Satan."

[raitei-amano.livejournal.com]

When I first heard about this group years ago, I wanted to just break down and cry because not only are their people like this out there, theres alot of them. :(
All this time later, groups like this and others like it are still not any easier to accept. They just want to take a bad situation, and make it even worse, and to no gain of their own, it just doesnt make sense.