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Westboro Baptist Church will picket lesbian student's graduation
« on: April 28, 2010, 02:53:03 PM »
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The Westboro Baptist Church has announced it will picket the graduate of lesbian student Constance McMillen, who challenged her school's anti-gay policy.

The Kansas-based church, which has achieved notoriety for picketing the funerals of dead soldiers, is vehemently homophobic.

In a press release, it said: “[We] will picket the graduation of Itawamba Agricultural High School to remind the parents, teachers and students of this nation that God said 'Thou shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind, it is abomination'.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/04/26/god-hates-fags-church-will-picket-lesbian-students-prom/

I am mildly amused.
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Re: Westboro Baptist Church will picket lesbian student's graduation
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2010, 02:56:53 PM »
Could get interesting....especially if the graduation ceremony is held on the school grounds.

I don't think school grounds are as "public" as cemetaries are....though maybe they are except when school is in session.

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Re: Westboro Baptist Church will picket lesbian student's graduation
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2010, 03:03:43 PM »
None of these things would have happened if she kept her mouth shut.

Why did that just bring up scary images?
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Re: Westboro Baptist Church will picket lesbian student's graduation
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2010, 03:04:26 PM »
Stupid is as stupid does.  I consider it a well-deserved lesson.
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Re: Westboro Baptist Church will picket lesbian student's graduation
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2010, 04:00:10 PM »
Well, the attention whore was looking for attention.  Be careful what you wish for, sweet cheeks. :II:
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Re: Westboro Baptist Church will picket lesbian student's graduation
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2010, 04:22:44 PM »
Sad thing is they might be stupid enough to actually do something and turn this whole thing into another win for her.
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Re: Westboro Baptist Church will picket lesbian student's graduation
« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2010, 06:45:00 PM »
You can't fix and reason with stupid. Case closed.
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Re: Westboro Baptist Church will picket lesbian student's graduation
« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2010, 08:39:06 PM »
Ok....just checking.  So, because that girl acted like a twit, and not what we would like her to act like, or behave like....it is ok for that effer at Westboro to bring his message of hate to a High School Graduation?
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Re: Westboro Baptist Church will picket lesbian student's graduation
« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2010, 08:41:52 PM »
They are filth..whether they protest at military funerals or if they protest students.  They are pure filth and they don't get a pass on this from me.
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Re: Westboro Baptist Church will picket lesbian student's graduation
« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2010, 08:45:06 PM »
Quote from: Hawkgirl on April 28, 2010, 08:41:52 PM
They are filth..whether they protest at military funerals or if they protest students.  They are pure filth and they don't get a pass on this from me.

 :cheersmate:

S'what I was trying to say, I just didn't get as downright eloquent as you, so I will just say:  Ditto.
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Re: Westboro Baptist Church will picket lesbian student's graduation
« Reply #10 on: April 28, 2010, 08:47:43 PM »
Quote from: Hawkgirl on April 28, 2010, 08:41:52 PM
They are filth..whether they protest at military funerals or if they protest students.  They are pure filth and they don't get a pass on this from me.

Agreed! I think Phelps is a repressed homosexual and adulterer. Talk about denial right there! By the way, Shirley Phelps-Roper has an illegitimate son. He's no different from Jim Jones, Charles Manson, and Osama bin Laden.
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Re: Westboro Baptist Church will picket lesbian student's graduation
« Reply #11 on: April 28, 2010, 08:47:48 PM »
Kinda sounds like 2 pushy, intolerant, loudmouthed, "holier-than-thou" groups will be meeting head-on.  In this case, while I think Westboro is a group of child-abusing scum, they have their First Amendment right...a right McMillen has already perverted in her court case.  Maybe they do deserve each other.
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Re: Westboro Baptist Church will picket lesbian student's graduation
« Reply #12 on: April 28, 2010, 08:49:15 PM »
Quote from: MrsSmith on April 28, 2010, 08:47:48 PM
Kinda sounds like 2 pushy, intolerant, loudmouthed, "holier-than-thou" groups will be meeting head-on.  In this case, while I think Westboro is a group of child-abusing scum, they have their First Amendment right...a right McMillen has already perverted in her court case.  Maybe they do deserve each other.

They make perfect company with each other.
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Re: Westboro Baptist Church will picket lesbian student's graduation
« Reply #13 on: April 28, 2010, 08:59:36 PM »
Quote from: Ptarmigan on April 28, 2010, 08:49:15 PM
They make perfect company with each other.

Perhaps in private.  I mean, yeah, she is a stupid kid, who did a very stupid thing, and I am not endorsing her behavior or what she did, but everyone else who graduates with her is going to not only have their prom ruined, but now their graduation.  What would you say/do if it was your kid graduating?  Perhaps the school should disallow her from graduating with her class?  I think it is honorable of the school to allow her, and it teaches a lesson, not in being PC, but taking the high road.

Phelps should be hung from the nearest tree.  He is a bully, point blank.

The fact that anyone condones his behavior only because it suits their agenda makes me sick. 
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Re: Westboro Baptist Church will picket lesbian student's graduation
« Reply #14 on: April 28, 2010, 09:01:27 PM »
Maybe the'll send this girl to a phoney graduation so the rest of the students can have their actual ceremony undisturbed?   :tongue: :hammer:
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Re: Westboro Baptist Church will picket lesbian student's graduation
« Reply #15 on: April 28, 2010, 09:03:42 PM »
Quote from: Red October on April 28, 2010, 09:01:27 PM
Maybe the'll send this girl to a phoney graduation so the rest of the students can have their actual ceremony undisturbed?   :tongue: :hammer:

Set up a private graduation ceremony and send her a few counties over. lol

She wanted attention and she is getting it.
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Re: Westboro Baptist Church will picket lesbian student's graduation
« Reply #16 on: April 28, 2010, 09:07:46 PM »
Seriously tho... Anything the WBC does, I oppose.  I don't care if this chick is an attention whore.  If a WBC shithead decides to wipe his own ass, I oppose the action.  Those people are the second lowest forms of life on earth next to baby killers.  All Americans who holds any of our servicemembers in any kind of esteem should be with me on this.  
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Re: Westboro Baptist Church will picket lesbian student's graduation
« Reply #17 on: April 28, 2010, 09:09:24 PM »
Quote from: Red October on April 28, 2010, 09:07:46 PM
Seriously tho... Anything the WBC does, I oppose.  I don't care if this chick is an attention whore.  If a WBC shithead decides to wipe his own ass, I oppose the action.  Those people are the second lowest forms of life on earth next to baby killers.  All Americans who holds any of our servicemembers in any kind of esteem should be with me on this.  

Well, you said it better than I did.  So, thanks!

This one is on me.

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Re: Westboro Baptist Church will picket lesbian student's graduation
« Reply #18 on: April 28, 2010, 09:26:33 PM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on April 28, 2010, 09:09:24 PM
Well, you said it better than I did.  So, thanks!

This one is on me.

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:cheersmate:  Cheers!
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Re: Westboro Baptist Church will picket lesbian student's graduation
« Reply #19 on: April 28, 2010, 09:35:46 PM »
I'm hoping Westboro gets their proverbial clock cleaned.

I don't care who does it...whether it's members of the Patriot Guard or a bunch of gay/lesbian rights supporters.

Somebody...JUST DO IT!!
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Re: Westboro Baptist Church will picket lesbian student's graduation
« Reply #20 on: April 28, 2010, 09:43:40 PM »
The high school kids in the middle of this lefty power struggle need kick the dogsh*t out of all of them.
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Re: Westboro Baptist Church will picket lesbian student's graduation
« Reply #21 on: April 28, 2010, 09:44:42 PM »
Quote from: Red October on April 28, 2010, 09:07:46 PM
I don't care if this chick is an attention whore.
Compared to Phelps, this junior carpetmuncher is a raw amateur in the attention whore business.
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Re: Westboro Baptist Church will picket lesbian student's graduation
« Reply #22 on: April 28, 2010, 09:45:14 PM »
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The high school kids in the middle of this lefty power struggle need kick the dogsh*t out of all of them.
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Re: Westboro Baptist Church will picket lesbian student's graduation
« Reply #23 on: April 28, 2010, 09:53:42 PM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on April 28, 2010, 08:39:06 PM
Ok....just checking.  So, because that girl acted like a twit, and not what we would like her to act like, or behave like....it is ok for that effer at Westboro to bring his message of hate to a High School Graduation?


At least this "protest" has the advantage of being actually aimed at it's "intended target" - homosexuals, and arguably militant homosexuals - this time.  I'm still trying to understand the Phelpsian logic of "God hates fags, so I'm going to go protest at the funerals of some of the most heterosexual individuals this country has ever produced".

I'm not saying that I wouldn't cheer wildly if the WBC protesters found themselves picketing in a minefield, but this does make more sense than 99% of anything they've done before.
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Re: Westboro Baptist Church will picket lesbian student's graduation
« Reply #24 on: April 28, 2010, 10:14:18 PM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on April 28, 2010, 08:59:36 PM
Perhaps in private.  I mean, yeah, she is a stupid kid, who did a very stupid thing, and I am not endorsing her behavior or what she did, but everyone else who graduates with her is going to not only have their prom ruined, but now their graduation.  What would you say/do if it was your kid graduating?  Perhaps the school should disallow her from graduating with her class?  I think it is honorable of the school to allow her, and it teaches a lesson, not in being PC, but taking the high road.

Phelps should be hung from the nearest tree.  He is a bully, point blank.

The fact that anyone condones his behavior only because it suits their agenda makes me sick. 
I honestly don't think anyone condones his behavior.  I don't condone the behavior of McMillen, either.  Both are perfect libs, so self-centered, they don't see or care how much damage they cause.  In that way, and only that way, they deserve each other.  However, the rest of that class doesn't.  I think, if I were the school, I'd find a way to have a closed graduation...maybe in a local church.   :-)
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