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Westboro Baptist to picket Edwards' Funeral
« on: December 09, 2010, 05:03:20 PM »
We all know that Elizabeth Edwards - wife of politician John Edwards - just died of cancer.

Now it seems that the crazies who picket funerals of dead US soldiers have decided that they're going to picket HER funeral, too.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40587353/ns/us_news-life

I'm not a fan of either Edwards, but to do this kind of cr@p during his wife's funeral?

Just when I get to thinking people can't sink any lower, they go ahead and do this to prove me wrong.
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Re: Westboro Baptist to picket Edwards' Funeral
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2010, 05:28:10 PM »
I know nothing about the woman other than her husband humiliated her nationally, but I don't see where picketing her funeral will do anything for anyone, even for those loonies.

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Re: Westboro Baptist to picket Edwards' Funeral
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2010, 05:32:12 PM »
I am speechless.  ???
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Re: Westboro Baptist to picket Edwards' Funeral
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2010, 05:56:21 PM »
Westboro Baptist Church = Pharisees of the Bible.

 
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Re: Westboro Baptist to picket Edwards' Funeral
« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2010, 05:58:20 PM »
before they started picketing Troops funerals, they always went to San Francisco to picket Aids victims funerals.

When they start dying, if I can, I will do the same to them.
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Re: Westboro Baptist to picket Edwards' Funeral
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2010, 06:26:04 PM »
Westboro Baptist Church = Pharisees of the Bible.

I wish. I doubt they have half the class, decency or sanity of your average first-century Pharisee.
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Re: Westboro Baptist to picket Edwards' Funeral
« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2010, 12:17:35 AM »
All their class is in their...
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Re: Westboro Baptist to picket Edwards' Funeral
« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2010, 12:46:20 AM »
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Just when I get to thinking people can't sink any lower, they go ahead and do this to prove me wrong.

The root of your problem is thinking the the WBC clowns are actually people. :facepalm:
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Re: Westboro Baptist to picket Edwards' Funeral
« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2010, 10:06:51 AM »
I wish. I doubt they have half the class, decency or sanity of your average first-century Pharisee.

That is a damn good post
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Re: Westboro Baptist to picket Edwards' Funeral
« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2010, 10:09:44 AM »
Maybe it will serve some good. Get the politicians to realize there is no legitimate reason to protest a funeral and save some of our soldiers families some grief in the future.

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Re: Westboro Baptist to picket Edwards' Funeral
« Reply #10 on: December 10, 2010, 10:54:16 AM »
The final step in the devolution of "civilization" is to openly attack funerals.  Right now that distinction is shared by Muslim terrorists and homegrown gangbangers.
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Re: Westboro Baptist to picket Edwards' Funeral
« Reply #11 on: December 10, 2010, 12:05:40 PM »
How many people are there in WBC, total?

It actually surprises me that, given the emotional state of the people the WBC folks choose to torment, that to date no one has snapped and taken out the lot of them.

I'm not advocating violence against them.  It just surprises me that they haven't managed to push someone too that point yet.
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Re: Westboro Baptist to picket Edwards' Funeral
« Reply #12 on: December 10, 2010, 01:13:37 PM »
As I keep saying: eventually, they WILL protest the "wrong" military funeral. One in a close-knit community, and where the media doesn't show up...
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Re: Westboro Baptist to picket Edwards' Funeral
« Reply #13 on: December 10, 2010, 02:04:29 PM »
As I keep saying: eventually, they WILL protest the "wrong" military funeral. One in a close-knit community, and where the media doesn't show up...
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Re: Westboro Baptist to picket Edwards' Funeral
« Reply #14 on: December 10, 2010, 02:32:24 PM »
How many people are there in WBC, total?

It actually surprises me that, given the emotional state of the people the WBC folks choose to torment, that to date no one has snapped and taken out the lot of them.

I'm not advocating violence against them.  It just surprises me that they haven't managed to push someone too that point yet.

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According to the OP article, 70 and most all of them are related to Phelps (80 yrs old) and he founded it in 1955.

I think they almost didn't make it out of WV when they showed up when the miners were trapped and protested.

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Re: Westboro Baptist to picket Edwards' Funeral
« Reply #15 on: December 10, 2010, 06:48:00 PM »
That is a damn good post

Thanks, but I should have gone with something more like 1/5.
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Re: Westboro Baptist to picket Edwards' Funeral
« Reply #16 on: December 11, 2010, 12:35:41 AM »
I know nothing about the woman other than her husband humiliated her nationally, but I don't see where picketing her funeral will do anything for anyone, even for those loonies.

Obviously I won't defend WBC in any way, but their beefs are mostly over American tolerance of gays and abortion.  Mrs Edwards was well known as a major supporter of abortion "rights" and her husband ran on a strongly pro-abortion plank.  So in that sense it makes about as much sense for them to picket her funeral as any.  In fact, it would seem to make more sense than those of soldiers who were probably more likely to be unhappy with open tolerance of homosexuality than not.

They're still disgusting human beings and are anything but witnesses of God's love.