The Westboro Democrats
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The Supreme Court doesn’t have any good news for Westboro Baptist
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Hot Air.com ^
| November 27, 2017 | JAZZ SHAW
The Supremes haven’t begun releasing new decisions yet, but they’re still managing to make news. In
this case, it’s not so much what they did as what they opted not to do. A court case out of Nebraska was challenging a law regarding restrictions on protests which interrupt funerals. It takes little imagination to guess that this was aimed directly at Westboro Baptist Church. The church had challenged the law on constitutional grounds but lost their bid in the lower courts. Rather than taking up the task yet again, the Supreme Court declined to hear it and allowed the lower...
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Anti-military, anti-gay church threatens protests at Eglin [Westboro]
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NW Florida Daily News ^
| 6/8/17 | Kelly Humphrey
A church notorious for protesting at military service members’ funerals has announced that it plans to picket Eglin Air Force Base and several local churches next week. According
to its website, Westboro Baptist Church, which is headquartered in Topeka, Kansas, will picket outside Eglin from 6 to 6:30 p.m. June 17. The protest is part of the church’s “God Hates Your Idols” tour. The church, which was founded in 1955, preaches that the deaths of service members are the direct result of God’s retribution for what it calls “America’s wickedness.” The church is particularly opposed to homosexuality and believes God...
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4 Steps to Break Down Walls From a Former Westboro Baptist Church Member
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Glenn Beck.com ^
| March 9, 2017 | The Glenn Beck Program
Megan Phelps-Roper, who grew up indoctrinated with hatred in the Westboro Baptist Church, left the church in 2012 after what can only be described as an awakening. “She
left the church a while ago, and recently did a TED talk on why she left and how it happened. And it’s fascinating because, I mean, there are parts of it that sounds like she’s just lifting lines from Glenn Beck about how to deal with the world,” Co-host Stu Burguiere said Thursday on The Glenn Beck Program. Interestingly, Phelps-Roper’s conversion began in the hateful universe of social media, where she encountered...
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Juilliard Students Greet Westboro Baptist Protesters with Music and Singing
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Playbill ^
| 11/3/2016 | Robert Viagas
Three members of the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church, known for disrupting soldiers' funerals with chants and signs displaying gay slurs, were met by a crowd of singing, instrument-playing students outside New York City's Juilliard School November 3. The
number of students varied from 60 to nearly 100 during the hour-long protest outside the 65th Street entrance. The students and the protesters were kept in police pens about 50 feet apart. A smaller group of students gathered on the other side of the street. Most of the time the students held signs or watched as a group of them played songs...
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RNC protesters are getting vile (BLM, KKK & Westboro throw urine at each other)
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The New York Post ^
| July 19, 2016 | Staff
CLEVELAND — Police broke up skirmishes between groups of demonstrators a few blocks from the Republican National Convention as large crowds formed Tuesday afternoon. There
was no immediate word on any arrests or injuries. Members of the KKK, Black Lives Matter, and Westboro Baptist Church reportedly threw urine at each other and police had to step in in an attempt to keep the peace, a police spokesperson told KPLC. A scuffle also broke out when conspiracy theorist and radio show host Alex Jones started speaking in downtown’s Public Square. Police on bicycles pushed back a surging crowd, and Jones was...
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Westboro Baptist Coming to Orlando, Authorities Confirm
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The Atlanta Journal Constitution ^
| June 17, 2016 | Jennifer Brett
ORLANDO, Fla. — Westboro Baptist Church, whose members are known for protesting high-profile funerals claiming that God’s wrath brought about the deaths, announced its plans to head to Orlando, Florida, after the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. Officials
with the Orlando Police Department confirmed on Thursday afternoon that the group was Florida-bound, citing a letter from the church.
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Westboro Baptist Church to Blue Jays: "God hates Canada"
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Toronto Sun ^
| October 23, 2015 | Postmedia Network
Apparently "God hates Canada," and that's something members of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church believe the Blue Jays might want to know. The
gay-bashing church group, infamous for its vile protests of soldier funerals, plans to protest the Blue Jays game in Kansas City. Members want to let us "depraved Canadians" know we're doomed for giving our country over to "sodomite filth," and so on and so forth, according to a statement. It's a rare opportunity for the merry band of raging haters. The church is based not far away, in Topeka, Kan. And since Canada has denied Westboro members...
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Westboro Astonishes Everyone by Slamming Anti-Gay Clerk Kim Davis
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IJ Review ^
| September 6, 2015 | KYLE BECKER
Poor Kim Davis. Not only did the anti-gay marriage crusader go to jail in defense of what she believes to be a fight for religious liberty (she might want to bone up on her James Madison), but now she’s being attacked by one of the most vile pseudo-religious organizations ever to spawn.
The Westboro Baptist “Church.”
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[Democratic operatives] Anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church weighs in against jailed Kentucky county...
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NY Daily News ^
| 9/7/15 | Tobias Salinger
The enemy of my enemy isn’t my friend, apparently. The
anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church doesn’t support the jailed Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses over her religious objections to legalized gay marriage. Westboro railed against Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis’ multiple marriages and apparent adultery in a series of Tweets over the weekend. “If Kim Davis has any real fear of God she'll resign and move out of the house from the man she lives w/ in adultery!,” one Tweet said on Thursday afternoon. The church continued ranting through Sunday night, even as Davis’ supporters appealed for...
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Foo Fighters Ride Into Westboro Baptist Church Protest With a Rickroll
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Billboard.com ^
| 8/22/2015 | Ashley Iasimone
Westboro Baptist Church targeted a Foo Fighters concert at Kansas City's Sprint Center on Friday, Aug. 21, and the band fired back -- with a Rickroll.
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Gov. Jindal's threat to have Westboro members who disrupt funeral arrested sparks legal debate
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KSLA News ^
| 07/28/2015 | By Fred Childers
SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) - Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal gave a stern warning to Westboro Baptist Church members who had reportedly threatened to protest the funerals of the Lafayette movie theater victims. “Let
me be very clear, if they come here to Louisiana and they try to disrupt those funerals, we're going to lock them up,” said Jindal. The funerals for Mayci Breaux and Jillian Johnson were held on Monday. Before that, Jindal issued an executive order asking police to enforce a Louisiana State law that protects against disturbing the peace at funerals. But, it did not have to be enforced...
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Bobby Jindal's executive order on the Westboro Baptist Church troubles the ACLU
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NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune ^
| 7/26/15 | Julia O'Donoghue, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana is concerned Gov. Bobby Jindal may disregard the constitutional rights of the Westboro Baptist Church with his latest executive order. "Governor
Jindal's Executive Order ... is misguided and has the potential to be used to infringe on protestors' First Amendment rights," said the ACLU in a statement Sunday morning. Jindal issued an order Saturday mostly aimed at keeping the Westboro Baptist Church -- and presumably the vulgar "God Hates Fags" signs they usually carry -- away from the funerals of two Lafayette movie theater shootings victims. "They come here to Louisiana. They try...
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The Tea Party member and Westboro Baptist supporter (theater shooter)
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DM ^
| 7-24-15 | ASHLEY COLLMAN
John Russel Houser was both a supporter of the far-right Tea Party and the extremist Christian Westboro Baptist Church, web accounts connected to the 59-year-old Louisiana theater shooter reveal. Houser,
who goes by the name Rusty, committed suicide Thursday night after opening fire in a screening of the movie Trainwreck at a Lafayette, Louisiana theater- killing two others and injuring nine. At a morning press conference, police did not reveal much about the gunman, other than that he was a 'drifter' who appears to have worked alone and had disguises in his motel room - indicating that he planned to...
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Westboro Baptist reportedly planning to protest funerals of slain servicemen, locals plan counter-pr
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Chattanooga Times Free Press via Young Conservatives ^
| July 18, 2015 | Chattanooga Times Free Press Staff
A Twitter account allegedly run by Westboro Baptist church says that the congregation intends to protest the funerals of the military members killed in Chattanooga earlier this week. The
account claims that God sent the shooter to kill the servicemembers and it insinuates that their murders are part of God’s punishment for America moving away from their Biblical standards.From Times Free Press: Claiming that God sent the gunman to the military installations in Chattanooga, Westboro Baptist on Saturday indicated that it planned to protest the funerals of the slain Marines and Sailor.Blaming the killings in part on the acceptance of...
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Dumbledore and Gandalf to marry in front of Westboro Baptist Church
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Canoe.com ^
The extremist Westboro Baptist Church won't have to travel far for its next protest. That's
because on Sunday afternoon, Planting Peace, "a non-profit organization founded in 2004 for the purpose of spreading peace in a hurting world," plans to hold a wedding between Gandalf and Dumbledore across from the hate group's headquarters in Topeka, Kansas. The marriage of the characters, played by volunteer actors, is a culmination of tweets between a fan of JK Rowling and the author's spat with the anti-gay 'church' on Twitter. Shortly after Ireland voted to legalize same-sex marriage, @justaoifethings tweeted: "@jk_rowling proud to see us...
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Marine vet who was arrested for throwing coffee on Westboro protesters at Beau Biden funeral insists
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Dailymail.com United Kingdom ^
| 7 June 2015 Updated: 8 June 2015 | Dailymail.com Reporter
FULL TITLE: Marine vet who was arrested for throwing coffee on Westboro protesters at Beau Biden funeral insists: 'I would do it again in a minute' A Vietnam veteran who was arrested after throwing warm coffee on Westboro Baptist Church protesters picketing the funeral of Beau Biden has spoken out. Richard
Pierce, 64, of Wilmington, Delaware said while he would not suggest anyone do what he did calling his actions 'childish', he said he would 'do it again in a minute', according to the New York Daily News. He was taken into custody after he hurled the drink at three...
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Westboro Baptist Church protests outside Beau Biden's funeral
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The Hill (MSN) ^
| 6 JUNE 2015 | Rebecca Shabad
Three members of the Westboro Baptist Church protested the funeral of Beau Biden, the vice president’s son, on Saturday, according to USA Today. One man was arrested for throwing coffee at the protestors, the report said. The
three members of the Topeka, Kansas-based church were seen picketing outside St. Anthony of Padua church in Wilmington, Del. where at least 1,000 people attended a service for Beau Biden.
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J.K. Rowling Reveals Awesome Reason For Challenging Westboro Church's Hate Speech
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Huffington Post ^
| 05/27/2015 | Nick Visser
Ireland became the first country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage through a popular vote last week, prompting emotional celebrations, outpourings of support and, yes, a little bit of hate. The
Westboro Baptist Church already stumbled over an attempted diss of the Irish referendum, mistakenly chastising the Ivory Coast instead. But when they tried to take on J.K. Rowling, the Harry Potter author had nothing but ire for the hate-mongers ..."I don't care about WBC. I think it's important that scared gay kids who aren't out yet see hate speech challenged."...
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Westboro Baptist Church Accidentally Hates The Ivory Coast
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Unilad.co.uk ^
| 26th May 2015 | Alex Watt
'The Westboro Bapstist Church has inadvertently declared its hatred of the Ivory Coast, after printing the Irish flag backwards on their posters. The
infamous church, which pickets the funerals of U.S soldiers and has a real obsession with homosexuality, were up to their old tricks again over the weekend. Naturally, the hate-speech spouting church took to the streets to picket Ireland’s historic same-sex marriage referendum. And, given their horrible “God Hates homosexuals” rhetoric, they weren’t huge fans of the Emerald Isle’s vote for equality. There was just one problem – the WBC had the wrong flag. So, instead of protesting...
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