Posted on 08/23/2014 11:18:36 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
The West Borough Baptist Church nearly made a journey to Iraq to protest against IS, after taking up an offer from comedian Adam Hills to fly the anti-gay hate group to the war torn country.
The Australian comic made his pledge on his show The Last Leg, on Channel 4 last Friday after the church vowed to picket the funeral of Robin Williams, who they labelled a ‘fag pimp’.
He told members of the controversial church to ‘put your money where your mouth is’ and offered to fly them to Iraq so they could protest against the killing of Christians by Islamic State militants.
‘I’ll even fly them first class and pay the carbon offset,’ he said.
We accepted! Whence tickets? @PhilCooke: An offer to fly WBC members 2 Iraq 2 protest. Sounds like good idea to me:
huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/19/ada…—
Westboro Baptist (@WBCSays) August 21, 2014
On last night’s show Hills informed viewers that since making the announcement he has been contacted by many people who say they will contribute money towards flying West Borough Baptist Church members to Iraq.
However after a week of WBC attacking Hills and posting abusive images directed at Muslims on Twitter, he opted to take the high road and decided instead to donate all the money raised for the flights to St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, a charity Robin Williams was a supporter of.
The comedian said he wanted to ‘spread love instead of hate’ through the donation, which was made in the name of the late actor.
I just donated to Remembering Robin Williams: A Benefit For St Jude. Please donate to this amazing cause here: crowdrise.com/honorrobin/fun…—
Adam Hills (@adamhillscomedy) August 22, 2014
Damn it.
Personally I think they would get a lot of coverage if the would go to Ferguson MO. on Monday. ;-)
At least we would only have to buy one way tickets; they would not be coming back.
I was hoping they were dain-bramaged enough to try it. *sigh*
Ummm...yes! Lots and lots of coverage! And I hear that both the cops AND the protesters are gay!
These Westboro Baptist Church people are very strange.
Some freeper had a great tagline that went something like this. “Live your life in such a way that when you die the Westboro Baptist Church will picket your funeral”
They didn’t back down, the guy offering the free tickets withdrew offer
Sssssh!
That's SkyDancer, I think.
That’s too bad. I hear Iraq is beautiful this time of year.
And it would have been even more beautiful if we could have sent the Phelps infestation there.
I was *so* looking forward to this.
:-(
I truly believe everybody has to be somewhere. :)
What better place for Phelps and his crew? I’m just sad it didn’t work out.
Well, that blows...
Could’ve been a great day for humanity...
I would have contributed and paid extra for a private viewing of the outcome and watched it, while eating heavily buttered popcorn, as I played it over and over on my 80” TV.
They’re leftwing layers and rabid DemonRATS not a church. Freddy Phelps was honored by the NAACP and other pro-negro racist outfits. The Westboto goons were supporters of Al Gore.
I’m living the dream!
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