June 16, 2008
Speaking of God Hating Fags...
As we already mentioned, the tenacious and curmudgeon-y Fred Phelps will be over at City Hall this afternoon, doing some sort of performance art piece or something. Needless to say, we're very excited.
What we didn't mention were the many people contacting SFist to let us know that we should not write about Phelps' fag fury. That somehow this will make him -- and more importantly, those who think like him -- go away.
But why? He's irresistible! (Come on, any group's site loudly welcoming readers with, "Welcome, depraved sons and daughters of America!" deserves your undivided attention.
Also, we don't hope for the war in Iraq to end by not having angry demonstrations in Dolores Park. We don't not try to keep Roe v. Wade in tact by not screaming in the faces of the annual pro-life rally at the Embarcadero. Why, then, are we asked to ignore the Phelps machine?
Anyway, if you want to catch his show, he and the church will be on the steps of City Hall, damning you today at 4:30-6 p.m., and tomorrow, 6/17, from 9-9:45 a.m. Please refrain from having anal sex in front of them while they protest. Thank you.
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A good reason to ignore Phelps is that one of the key ways the Church obtains its funding is by suing counter protestors who get a little to enthusiastic.
By ignoring him and not giving him any targets to sue it's actually a way to dry up funding for Phelps and his clan.
It's also worth reporting that Phelps' Ministry also hates Jews.
But they love cupcakes! How can you hate that?!
"What we didn't mention were the many people contacting SFist to let us know if his arrival have also asked that we 'ignore' him. That we should not write about Phelps fag fury. that somehow this will make him -- and more importantly, those who think like him -- so away."
I want you to write 100 times, "Monday morning mimosas make Brock incomprehensible." And once you've sobered up, I want you to think long and hard about what you've done.
Phelps backwards is "splehp" which is an onomatapeer for jizz hitting neoprene.
As much as I find Phelps and his clan disgusting, they are a perfect face to associate with hate, intolerance and stupidity. Welcome to San Francisco!
"Fag Fury" - was that a Plymouth model?
Also, did somebody mention mimosas? I love me a nice mimosa.
Hey the good thing is that with Phelps and crew there, it will make protesting gay marriage too extreme for even the Christian Right. Or maybe if they both show up, they'll get into a skurmish on their own. Gotta think postitive!
That was indeed a Plymouth model. It was a class comptitor of the Chevy Big-ot
I hope someone catches the show on videotape as a motivator to not change the Constitution to ban existing freedoms on account of this terrorist loon. Doesn't he protest our soliders' funerals too, leading some Republicans to make some new laws about protests at funerals? We'll need all the ammo we can get to fight the November proposition ... I'm sure the Catholic Church (despite the good intentions of the Catholics in our City and surrounding area) will ignore the starving, shelter seeking folks to some degree in order to spend millions to shove their religious beliefs down Californians' throats as if they're the Ayotollah in Iran or something .... the Catholic Church spent $1 million in Michigan, and that wasn't exactly a hard state to pass a gay marriage ban. All I have to say is, Jesus Christ!
Don't worry. The fundies are facing particularly bad economic times. Having wrapped up their entire lives in Bush's economic miracle they've got mortgage payments they can't make, jobs that have disappeared with the housing crisis, trucks they can't afford to gas up, 19 kids and crappy heathcare. They simply don't have the cash to fight the gay no more.
I agree with Largo01. Even the most hardcore religious nutjobs I know find this guy to be an embarrassment. The more he's associated with being anti-gay, the worse the religious right looks.
God hates Phred Phelps. He makes baby jesus cry.
It would be so awesome if someone showed up with signs mimicking his. That would so rawk.
God *Loves* gay marriage. He's a *little* mad at Contra Costa for voting for Prop 22 a few years ago, so he sent us a slight drought, but all we have to do is cut our sprinklers back 19%. But he's reserved his true fury for the Heartland, why else would He send all those tornados and floods only through the parts of the country that haven't approved gay marriage?
God is too busy at the moment punishing the people of Iowa for their sinful ways. We're in the clear.
I sure wish Phelps et al had gone to Bakerfield instead.
I grew up in Kansas and lived there for far too long. Trust me, nothing you can do will even remotely phase Phelps. Counter-protests do nothing more than give him additional press coverage and plenty of people to hit with frivolous lawsuits. Ignoring him as a crazed nutjob is the only reasonable response.
It's sort of like why the standard position is for respectable scientists to avoid even putting down intelligent design: by arguing against something crazy you give it perceived legitimacy.
Jesus loves me, this I know
'cos I see his penis grow