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Westboro Baptist Church to picket Oklahoma liquor store over sign mocking Fred Phelps' death
upi ^ | March 28, 2014 | Evan Bleier

Posted on 03/28/2014 9:50:25 AM PDT by JoeProBono

The Westboro Baptist Church is saying that it will picket an Oklahoma liquor store that put up a sign mocking the death of the group’s founder, Fred Phelps.

Phelps died on March 20 at the age of 84.

To commemorate the occasion, Moore Liquor decided to have a champagne sale and posted a sign reading, "Fred Phelps 1929-2014, Champagne 10% off! Not a coincidence."

The WBC doesn’t find the sign funny and plans to protest. The store sounds fine with it.

"I was a little reticent about putting up the sign in the first place because I have two good parents who raised me not to speak ill of the dead, but I couldn’t help feeling that the world was a better place without Fred Phelps," store owner Bryan Kerr told the Huffington Post.

"He did so much to spread his special brand of hatred while bastardizing Christian principles that I thought it might be appropriate to recognize his lack of corporeal existence with some celebration. As a Christian myself, I truly hope that Fred found some peace with God and maybe even had a change of heart before passing."


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Won't pretend to know what it means, jsut guessing there's a redirection buried in one of those urls somewhere, some kinda 1px web bug or summat ? :


             

61 posted on 03/28/2014 1:02:01 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: dfwgator
Notice they never picket Gay Pride Parades.

That is not exactly true; they have and still continue to do that. And FWIW the first time the WBC came to the national spot light was over their picketing of the funeral of Matthew Sheppard.

But by protesting or even threatening to protest and then not showing up at soldier’s funerals or the funerals of others like the kids who died at Sandy Hook, the Nickel Mines Amish school shooting victims or at the funerals of the children who died in the Oklahoma tornado outbreak last year, that get’s them the max amount of outrage and therefore of the press they seek.

62 posted on 03/28/2014 1:16:07 PM PDT by MD Expat in PA
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To: JoeProBono

That’ll help sales. Seriously.


63 posted on 03/28/2014 1:23:01 PM PDT by dangus
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To: wordsofearnest

They aren’t Baptists. How many times do people need to be told this?


64 posted on 03/28/2014 1:31:05 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: Quality_Not_Quantity

Phelps’ group are still not Baptists. Tomorrow they will still not be Baptists.


65 posted on 03/28/2014 1:33:08 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: tomkat; MeshugeMikey

Image came from http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2011/03/02/supreme-court-fundamentalist


66 posted on 03/28/2014 1:40:53 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: JoeProBono; Revolting cat!; GeronL; Slings and Arrows

Buycott in progress...


67 posted on 03/28/2014 2:46:50 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The Texas judge's decision was to pave the way for same sex divorce for two Massachusetts women.)
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To: a fool in paradise; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
L'chaim!


68 posted on 03/28/2014 3:19:36 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Very nice!


69 posted on 03/28/2014 3:27:03 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: JoeProBono

In Judaism we taught to only say good about the dead, so...

He’s dead. Good.


70 posted on 03/28/2014 3:30:18 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
Thank you

THe Bonus Tribute!




71 posted on 03/28/2014 3:30:54 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: Slings and Arrows


72 posted on 03/28/2014 3:45:59 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Slings and Arrows
The problem with living your life so Westboro will picket your funeral is, of course, that Publicity Whore Baptist will picket pretty much anyone.
73 posted on 03/28/2014 3:54:10 PM PDT by RichInOC (Jesus is coming back soon...and man, is He ticked off. (I'm trying to keep it clean.))
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To: JoeProBono

“Well done, thou good and faithful servant!”


74 posted on 03/28/2014 3:59:05 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: RichInOC

That’s why you have to make yourself a priority case.


75 posted on 03/28/2014 4:00:59 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

That’s what FR needs - a print version.


76 posted on 03/28/2014 4:02:38 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

The future may not be in print! I dunno


77 posted on 03/28/2014 4:11:31 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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78 posted on 03/29/2014 7:28:40 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: JoeProBono

They can dish it out but can’t take it.

Hypocrites!


79 posted on 03/31/2014 10:04:41 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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