Thank God For Acts of God

Apparently someone saw the good in all the tragedy:

the Westboro Baptist Church leaders known for picketing the funeral of Matthew Shepard, the young college student brutally murdered in Wyoming in 1998, have released the following statement regarding the tsunamis which hit Southeast Asia earlier in the week. The statement, which was posted on their website Wednesday alongside dozens of other archived "press releases," thanks God for the tsunami and for the death of any gay Swedish vacationers who perished at the time.[more]

I didn't realize there was so much animosity against Sweden in particular. Groups/individuals like these really bring out the worst in me, so I shall refrain from commenting further.

•  It's that Bin Laden speech

  where he said Al Qaeda wasn't attacking Sweden.  If Bin Laden likes Sweden, all good Americans better hate it.

  by clyde on Thu Dec 30, 2004 at 11:22:30 PM PDT

•  Holy Shit.

  That is the most vile shit I have seen all day... and I thought this was bad: Ayn Rand Institute: US Should Not Aid Tsunami Victims

  by LeftHandedMan on Thu Dec 30, 2004 at 11:31:47 PM PDT

  •  Forgive my language, but that is evil

    and what's worse... these are the kind of 'moral values' people backing the "leadership" coming out of the White House, the U.S. House and Senate right now.

    by LeftHandedMan on Thu Dec 30, 2004 at 11:33:45 PM PDT

    •  These people

      Fred Phelps and the gang are not representative of the people that voted on so called moral values. These people are the extreme of the extreme right.

      by bluestateLIBertarian on Fri Dec 31, 2004 at 12:47:13 AM PDT

  •  Dumb logic from the link

    The reason politicians can get away with doling out money that they have no right to and that does not belong to them is that they have the morality of altruism on their side. According to altruism--the morality that most Americans accept and that politicians exploit for all it's worth--those who have more have the moral obligation to help those who have less. This is why Americans--the wealthiest people on earth--are expected to sacrifice (voluntarily or by force) the wealth they have earned to provide for the needs of those who did not earn it."

    The right to give out money is the right of legitamacy that stems from elections (when fair and valid).  We elect representatives to carry out our values - inlcuding the value of altruism.  These people really don't understand democracy.  

    by Liberation Learning on Thu Dec 30, 2004 at 11:36:12 PM PDT

•  This church has been

  working against sweden for some time - it's an ongoing campaign.

  Someone be sure to share this with TomTech for This Week in Fascism, as the term Homo-Fascist should raise alarm bells. =)

  by Liberation Learning on Thu Dec 30, 2004 at 11:32:37 PM PDT

  •  I'm heterosexual...

    but this makes me want to move to Sweden.

    by Maryscott OConnor on Fri Dec 31, 2004 at 08:26:26 AM PDT

•  Yes it's such a beatiful Christian sentiment

  I hope they like it hot, because if Christianity is true, they will roast in the lower levels of hell.

  by southernblues on Thu Dec 30, 2004 at 11:33:27 PM PDT

•  Wow

  Disguisting. One wonders if anyone would miss these people if... i've said too much.

  Remember MLK...
  Remember MLK...
  Remember MLK...

  by Disgusted on Thu Dec 30, 2004 at 11:33:52 PM PDT

  •  actually I think it says a lot

    that nothing significant has happened to any of them.  Imagine if some radical fag harrassed them at their funerals and every tragic event.  I think it is telling that they haven't been hurt, but ignored.

    by southernblues on Thu Dec 30, 2004 at 11:40:22 PM PDT

•  yes

  If someone did start a campaign against people like this (There has to be one already) and started harrasing them they would take it as an excuse to respond with violence.

  Maybe people don't mess with crazy right-wingers because their scared of them... what sane person wouldn't be?

  by Disgusted on Fri Dec 31, 2004 at 12:16:00 AM PDT

•  Anywhere else in the world

  this flyer would pass as humour, albeit sick humour. In Australia this kind of stuff appears in university rags and everyone has a good laugh.

  The fact that you are all taking it so seriously is really scaring me...

  by limaike on Fri Dec 31, 2004 at 01:39:29 AM PDT

  •  Humor?

    If it had been intended as humor then it might be taken as humor. This is not satire, or polical commentary, or farce. It is the ugly face of hate. I don't think that anyone is laughing.

    by timerigger on Fri Dec 31, 2004 at 05:15:59 AM PDT

  •  That was not a joke

    My Glaswegian friend sends me jokey things similar to that flyer all the time.

    But the Phelps one is real. We take it seriously, because he's serious.

    This is the man who pickets the funerals of gay people, especially the ones who perished of HIV, waving signs that say "God Hates Fags" and "Burn in Hell, Homo." He picketed Matthew Shepard's funeral! So, with all due respect, learn something about the guy before dismissing this whole thread as overreaction.

    by Xray the Enforcer on Fri Dec 31, 2004 at 06:11:22 AM PDT

    •  I wonder

      what empowers this fool more- your anger or my laughter?

      by limaike on Fri Dec 31, 2004 at 10:27:13 AM PDT

      •  probably the red bull n/t

        by Xray the Enforcer on Fri Dec 31, 2004 at 08:14:24 PM PDT

  •  I laughed.

    What other choice do I have? My rage-o-meter is broken.

    I have decided to LAUGH at these people.
    Long and loud and clear.
    I've decided to LAUGH -
    so everybody can hear.
    The more I LAUGH --
    the more I fill with gleeeee...
    and the more the gleeeee...
    the more obvious the truth will beeee.

    (apologies to whoever wrote "I love to laugh" from Mary Poppins. It came over me. Further proof, if any was needed, that I will not be overtaking Weird Al Yankovic in the song-spoofing genre anytime soon.)

    by Maryscott OConnor on Fri Dec 31, 2004 at 08:24:23 AM PDT

•  I don't get it

  why are they homo-fascists for playing leapfrog?

  by Johnny Gentle Famous Crooner on Fri Dec 31, 2004 at 06:41:31 AM PDT