Good flipping Jesus on a bicycle. These guys are morons.
Westboro Baptist Church is going to protest Heath Ledger's funeral.
Because he portrayed a gay man in Brokeback Mountain.
"You cannot live in defiance of God. He (Ledger) got on that big screen with a big, fat message: God is a liar and it's OK to be gay," said Shirley Phelps in a statement sent out by the Topeka, Kan.-based Westboro Baptist Church.
The article also mentions this touch of asshatterypure class I'd never heard before this, but easy to believe:
To be fair, the people of the Westboro Baptist Church aren’t the only ones displaying poor taste. Fox News’ John Gibson on Jan. 22 opened his radio show with funeral music and mocked a signature line from "Brokeback," saying, "Well, he found out how to quit you." (When Gibson was contacted to explain his comments, he declined.)
Way to go, John. Nice.
The article additionally makes a good point that bears repeating here:
The only compelling reason to ignore Westboro Baptist’s reprehensible intentions is that highlighting the vast inappropriateness of their thoughts and actions only brings the church more publicity. However, if the members of Westboro Baptist get to speak their minds, every individual who feels that this is an affront to most basic standards of human ethics should be able to as well.
As much as we don't like their message, Westboro Baptist does have a right to be against whatever they want.
But geez...keep it out of the face of his family, who has asked for nothing but respectful privacy...