Fred Phelps is organizing a protest at Obama's grandmother's funeral:
Check out the PDF flier here
Or see it hereif you dont want to open a PDF.
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008
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WBC to picket the funeral of Madelyn Payne Dunham, - pursuant to the picketing laws of Hawaii or Kansas or, etc., wherever burial occurs, - in religious protest and warning to the living; to wit: "Prepare to meet thy God...
I haven't seen this anywhere else except on 2 blogs. I hope the campaign knows about this, because this is sick. He's actually organizing a trip to Hawaii to do this. They picketed Al Gore's father's funeral as well.
"In 1998, Westboro picketed the funeral of Gore's father, screaming vulgarities at Gore and telling him, "your dad's in Hell."[
The Southern Poverty Law Center has a Phelps Time-Line of events the Secret Service might want to review. In some of them - their have been arrests for assault from members of his protest.
http://www.splcenter.org/...
Phelps' obsessive behavior is well known throughout Britain as well, as this commenter on Pam's blog notes:
I posted this info on a gay forum in the UK, since we've been following the US elections, and got this response (the Phelps Klan are almost as well-known in the British LGBT community as in America):
I think they have an entanglement with some kind of sub-human evil. People who are innocently mad are never harmful in this way. There is something about their obsessiveness that I find energetically abnormal and heavier than the normal range of human functioning. Their indifference to reasoning and the pain of others is one part of this.
Fr John pointed out something that I personally find plausible. Many of them show the typical signs that some would diagnose as 'possession' or 'attachment', depending on what your working vocabulary is. As though there is some common influence bearing on the thinking and behaviour of the whole group. I'm not saying it isn't something they created or attracted, but it's as though they feed and perpetuate it with their behaviour.