Westboro Baptist Church plans to picket funeral for seven dead Perry County siblings

Harrisburg Patriot News ^ | March 11, 2011 | By SARA GANIM

[Allinone69z]

Westboro Baptist Church, the controversial group that just won a free speech Supreme Court case related to picketing soldiers' funerals, says it is planning to protest at the funeral for seven Perry County children who died in a fire Tuesday night....

[doc1019]

Thanks, I was unaware. Guess I should investigate before posting. LOL!

[Charlespg]

and if the jurys refused to award damages?

[Delta Dawn]

Wrong part of the country to be doing this. Lot of hunters in that county.

[Sunshine Sister]

Why? What did those children do? Their parents couldn’t have been more in keeping of family values than most. This is just sick!

[Marty62]

What do you mean tools. Their leader is a big time DemonRat.

[Sunshine Sister]

Technically they are not in Westboro. They are in the low rent district! No offense to the poor souls that live in the same area. They have my profound sympathy!

[ReverendJames]

Yes, just imagine some hunter heading out carrying his rifle and goes by those people and trips. Or for some reason has his assault rifle(?) with him and does the same dance step. Whoda though?

[DakotaRed]

Southern Justice!

[bilhosty]

If somebody wasted them would they accept that as Gods Judgement against them?

[JoeProBono]

[robseg]

Are any of these people human? Don’t any of them *ever* have a pang of conscience about doing something like this to the parents, the families, of innocent people?

[dragonblustar]

Thank the vile supreme court that allows this garbage and I dont give a damn if most of the court are republicans. Intentional infliction of emotional distress and fighting words have never been protected speech.

I agree.

[Palladin]

Perry County is ready for them. There will be a crowd of hundreds shouting them down. Many LEOs will be present in plain clothes. The DA is looking for any excuse to throw the freaks of WBC in jail. They better not so much as spit on the sidewalk!

Friends of the Clouse family on Facebook are organizing a huge counter-protest.

WBC would be smart to back off this one!

[sauropod]

I really feel for the family that lost those 7 kids...

Jesus will hold all to account. Do ya hear me WBC?

[windsorknot]

What god does the Westboro Baptist “Church” worship?

[RHSimard]

This so-called church is really just the one family, by blood or marriage, plus a few others. There's nothing Christian about them but their claims. Anyone can memorize the Bible and extract bits and pieces to suit their whims; that isn't faith.

Four of the young adult generation broke away. The family instantly disowned them. The URL below is to an excerpt from 20/20 in which they speak without the slightest regret of how their daughter Lauren was "cast out" by the Lord (supposedly) and that they don't miss her at all. Incredible.

I am not the poster of that video and I don't share the poster's apparent atheism, but the video is an eye-opener.

These people are beyond contemptible. 20/20 excerpt on the Westboro Baptist Church (YouTube)

[6SJ7]

Perry County is ready for them. There will be a crowd of hundreds shouting them down. Many LEOs will be present in plain clothes. The DA is looking for any excuse to throw the freaks of WBC in jail. They better not so much as spit on the sidewalk!

I've heard roads in Perry County are bad. Full of pot holes, nails, rusted sharp metal, what not. Kind of roads that can cause all the tires on the WBC to go dead flat. Heard too they're not any tire shops in the area that stock tires for that sort of van. Might take weeks to order some. Maybe months.

[Armedanddangerous]

Phred Phelps was a major fundraiser for the algore for prez campaign in the 1980s.

[houeto]

Intentional infliction of emotional distress and fighting words have never been protected speech.

If this isn't inciting a riot, I don't know what is.

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