Posted on 08/07/2007 1:37:31 AM PDT by Brynn2007
The Westboro Baptist Church has announced that they will be protesting the funerals of two victims of the 35W Bridge Collapse.
They will be protesting the funeral of Paul Eickstadt at 10:45 AM on Tuesday, August 7th at Grace Evangelical Free Church at 755 73rd Ave. in Minneapolis.
They will also be protesting the funeral of Sherry Lou Engebretsen at 10:45 AM on Wednesday, August 8th at Incarnation Lutheran Church at 4880 North Hodgson Rd. in Shoreview, MN.
Links to copy and paste to your URL....
These two are just opinions on why the bridge collapsed. 1. http://www.godhatesfags.com/writings/20070804_americas-highways-lay-waste.pdf 2. http://www.godhatesfags.com/fliers/aug2007/20070802_minneapolis-bridge-collapse.pdf
This is a link to a list of links which lead to fliers for individual upcoming protesting events, the two MN victims included. http://www.godhatesfags.com/fliers/pickets.html
The following are the fliers for the individual funerals of Paul and Sherry, respectively.
http://www.godhatesfags.com/fliers/aug2007/20070806_paul-eickstadt-funeral.pdf
http://www.godhatesfags.com/fliers/aug2007/20070806_sherry-lou-engebretsen-funeral.pdf
I will be attending the protest of Mrs. Engebretsen's funeral to do as much to hinder their antics as I can...my only hope is that there will be a huge outpouring of support for these families.
My first thought was that it would be a bad idea to give hese people publicity...but to not protect the dignity of these families because of the risk of publicity for the WBC's cause would be a much greater injustice than if these families were given respect and the Phelps' just got more people to hate them through publicity in the process.
Please help if you are able! Thank you all.
No, this group protests at any funeral of note to protest against homosexuality. If they stuck to protesting funerals of gay men and women their wouldn't be as much opposition to them.
where do they get their money from...
They're lawyers. They have a legal practice in Topeka called Phelps Chartered. They've also won a number of lawsuits over the years.
They also protest at the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq. They claim that God is punishing America because America tolerates homosexuality.
Mike Gallagher is known to have made deals with them - free air time on his show in exchanger for their calling off their nonsense
A useful reference to the background information on this group. True, wiki commentary itself is frequently a “non-reliable source”, but there are lots of links to check other sources and the claims in the wiki text.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church
When do we get to protest at a Phelps’ family funeral?
I know. I live in Kansas and I've been watching the antics of the Phelps clan for years.
If they had tried this crap in Mississippi after Katrina, they would all have been found hanging from a tree by their necks... and not one question would have been asked!
LLS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_phelps
The Phelps spawn are parasites preying on a free society. They may be the price we have to tolerate for the rule of law, but damn, it can be high.
We need to pray for Fred Phelps to come to know Yah'shua.
You are a far better person than me.
Amoradocat
Since Aug 7, 2007
Old Sarge - here’s one that the kitties need to watch. I don’t think he likes ‘fundie religious group’s.
I think they’re a bunch of inbred morons who have discovered how to extend their 15 minutes of infamy indefinitely.
Do what you want, I’ll swear we were fishing on the Pecos at the time.
I'd tend to agree except Phelps does not represent the religious right any more than Jim Jones represented communal left leaning religion. The Phelps are a crime family using "religion" as a cover.
Sometimes, it makes perfect sense to do prison time.
We need to help him get to know Yah'shua.
In person.
I emailed the MN captain of the Patriot Guard and he said that this is kind of outside the scope of what they do, which I thought might be the case. At any rate, they only become involved when the family invites them there as guests.
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