Westboro Baptist members plan protest at Erwin serviceman's funeral

[cosmo99]

Westboro Baptist members plan protest at Erwin serviceman's funeral
By staff report

Published June 17th, 2010 | Added June 17th, 2010 3:09 pm | 0 Comments


Members of Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church reportedly will be in Johnson City on Monday to picket near the memorial service for Airman Benjamin D. White, an Erwin resident who died last week in Afghanistan.

"Military funerals have become pagan orgies of idolatrous blasphemy where they pray to the dunghill gods of Sodom and play taps to a fallen fool," states a Westboro flier forwarded to media outlets by the Unicoi County Sheriff's Office.

The flier goes on to say that the "message will be preached in respectful, lawful proximity" to White's memorial service at Grace Fellowship Church on South Greenwood Drive at 6:15 p.m. Monday.

Read the full story on the Johnson City Press Web site.

Westboro Baptist members plan protest at Erwin serviceman's funeral - Kingsport Times-News Online

[MikMo]

Need to form a welcoming committee for the Westboro contingent.

[simple man]

Need to form a welcoming committee for the Westboro contingent.

Be careful- they love to sue.


"Phelps also filed suits that attracted attention. In the 1980s, he sued President Ronald Reagan for sending an ambassador to the Vatican. The case never went to trial.
Phelps was disbarred from state courts in 1979 after an incident that began when he sued a court reporter who he argued had failed to hand over a court transcript on time. Phelps demanded $22,000 in damages, and subjected the woman to a cross-examination that lasted for most of a week, according to press coverage of the event. The Kansas Supreme Court later said that Phelps had carried out a "personal vendetta."
Phelps seemingly always craved publicity. He ran for Kansas governor as a Democrat in the '90s and launched other failed bids for the U.S. Senate and the Topeka mayor's office.
As Phelps grew older, his children stepped forward to lead the day-to-day activities of the church. All have law degrees, and most are practicing attorneys. The family has its own law firm.
Several children have worked for state or local government. Margie Phelps works at the state Department of Corrections. The Kansas Correctional Association gave her an award two years ago for outstanding work.
Details of Westboro's finances - how it make its money, whether it gets outside contributions, and how much it spends on national protests - are murky. As a church, Westboro pays no taxes and is largely exempt from IRS regulation"

$11 million verdict brings scrutiny of Phelps finances

[Ironlung]

Let 'em sue a freaking bullet. You start that horse**** in a place like Erwin, you might not be seen again. I hope that's what happens to those pieces of ****. Either that or they end up hanging off a bridge like some unfortunate elephant of the past.

[simple man]

Let 'em sue a freaking bullet. You start that horse**** in a place like Erwin, you might not be seen again. I hope that's what happens to those pieces of ****. Either that or they end up hanging off a bridge like some unfortunate elephant of the past.

I would hope they are all ....mmmm, missing the next day. It would stop them from going to court. It is a long way out of Tennessee.

[imported_elp6n]

The folks in Blacksburg did a pretty good job of peaceful counter-protests when Westboro decided to picket 3 locations there a few months ago. Some of their counter protest signs were complete nonsense (taken from the Orbitz chewing gum commercials I do believe - "dirty mouth" )

I would like to see Rolling Thunder invited to the services, with a prominent place between the Westboro nuts and the family.