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	<title>Box Turtle Bulletin &#187; Fred Phelps / Westboro Baptist</title>
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		<title>God Hates Figs</title>
		<link>http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/03/14/9827</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Burroway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This flyer was distributed during a recent Chicago counter-protest against members of the &#8220;God hates fags&#8221; Westboro Baptist Church. Food for thought:
[Hat tip: Dan Savage]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This flyer was distributed during a recent Chicago counter-protest against members of the &#8220;God hates fags&#8221; Westboro Baptist Church. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/froboy/3343598218/sizes/l/in/set-72157614979271411/">Food for thought</a>:</p>
<div id="attachment_9828" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/btb/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/3343598218_f7509066b7_b.jpg" class="articleLink"><img class="size-medium wp-image-9828" title="God Hates Figs" src="http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/btb/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/3343598218_f7509066b7_b-300x200.jpg" alt="God Hates Figs flyer (Click to enlarge)" width="300" height="200" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">God Hates Figs flyer (Click to enlarge)</p></div>
<p><em>[Hat tip: <a href="http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/03/12/god_hates_figs">Dan Savage</a>]</em></p>
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		<title>&#8220;Wow. BTB just got Phelpsed&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/11/26/6954</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Burroway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That was one commenter&#8217;s reaction to another comment left by Margie Phelps. She, of the Westboro Baptist clan, had a few words to say about a protest in Omaha which didn&#8217;t turn out so well for her compatriots:
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That was <a href="http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/11/25/6923#comment-25894" class="articleLink">one commenter&#8217;s reaction</a> to another <a href="http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/11/25/6923#comment-25888" class="articleLink">comment left by Margie Phelps</a>. She, of the Westboro Baptist clan, had a few words to say about <a href="http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/11/25/6923" class="articleLink">a protest in Omaha</a> which didn&#8217;t turn out so well for her compatriots:</p>
<blockquote><p>It is so beautiful watching this nation raise an entire generation of mindless illiterate raging brats. It is the perfect picture of the curse of God on this nation.</p>
<p>When they get all riled up and try to attack the peaceful kind-hearted prophets of God, you cheer like a bunch of stupid trained seals. But when they turn their filthy vulgar violence on society-at-large — you cry like a bunch of little girls. The very same day the brutish brats at the Omaha high school were raging — trying to change the standard of God — furious-at-heart because every adult they’ve ever met before meeting the Westboro Baptist Church good souls have lied to them about any and all things important — the Omaha media reported a hysterical conference by the “leaders” of the community about the out-of-control gang problem.</p>
<p>Meanwhile as you show your backsides in your comments — encouraging violence for one reason, to wit, to try to shake off the bands our words put on your evil dark consciences — your duty stays the same forever: Get a Bible; read it; urge your fellow man to read it; obey it; urge your fellow man to obey it; otherwise shut up!</p>
<p>You are an altogether worthless people. You have no character, substance or righteousness. You glorify yourselves and spend out your days in vain pursuit of lust and greed. You hate each other; you hate yourselves; you have a society that is rotting from the inside out; God is cursing you in every way, every day. And you’re just too plain blind and dumb to see it. God did that to you by one awesome judicial stroke: Made you blind, stupid and drunk-acting — so you are incapable of any right thinking. Lord help those pitiful kids raised by the parents of today! They have no hope! That’s why they are reduced to throwing food and drink at people who care for their souls. You taught them that vile parents, teachers, preachers and “leaders.”</p>
<p>God has raised up a perfect arrogant ass to be the president of this generation of spoiled no-impulse-control brats, named Obama. He will lead these bombastic big mouths to their final destruction. God put him in this position of power so he could use him as his servant for his glory to destroy doomed america.</p>
<p>Your only hope is this: Shut your big blasphemous mouth; get a Bible; read it; and OBEY! Fear God! Keep his commandments! He is the Creator of all things. Those animal-acting slobbish children can’t change that fact! The hour of his coming draws nigh. The Judgment Day she cometh.</p>
<p>God hates you doomed america. He sent you sissies and toddlers to rule over you; and they have you in a grip you can’t get out of. God hates you nasty Nebraska. God hates you Oafish Omaha. He hates the lying whore false prophets of your land; he hates the parents of your land; and he hates those rutting retards you call children! God hates you!</p>
<p>Magormissabib.</p>
<p>Margie Phelps<br />
One of your only true BFFs in the whole world, at Westboro Baptist Church, the last spot on this earth where you will hear the truth</p>
<p>PS We’ll be back to that high school early and often — stay tuned — because those little brutes WILL drink the cup of his wrath — and since you parents, teachers, preachers and “leaders” won’t tell them the truth — we’ll do the job for you</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Westboro Baptists Flee Student Counter Protest</title>
		<link>http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/11/25/6923</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Burroway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Westboro Baptist clan was at it again, this time near Omaha Central High School last Friday. A counter protest by students turned, well, theatrical &#8212; in a rotten-tomatoes sort of way:
Students threw hamburgers and bottles of lemonade and milk at several members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., students said after the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Westboro Baptist clan was at it again, this time near Omaha Central High School last Friday. A counter protest by students turned, well, theatrical &#8212; <a href="http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&amp;u_sid=10494164">in a rotten-tomatoes sort of way</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Students threw hamburgers and bottles of lemonade and milk at several members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., students said after the protest. A video of the protest — recorded by 16-year-old student Mason Hartwell — showed one counterprotester on the ground, seated with his hands behind his back and flanked by two law enforcement officers.</p></blockquote>
<p>Students also chanted several slogans &#8212; including the Pledge of Allegiance, where they yelled &#8220;Liberty and justice for all.&#8221; Police persuaded the Westboro clan to leave once the situation threatened to get out of hand. Police said no one was injured and no one was arrested.</p>
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		<title>Westboro Baptist To Debate Amendment 2</title>
		<link>http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/10/21/4064</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Burroway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Florida International University is hosting a debate on Amendment 2, Florida&#8217;s so-called &#8220;marriage amendment.&#8221;  Guess who they got to show up to support Amendment 2?
Westboro Baptist. I kid you not.
It turns out that Westboro Baptist was invited by the Stonewall Legal Alliance, an LGBT advocacy group at the FIU College of Law.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Florida International University is hosting a debate on Amendment 2, Florida&#8217;s so-called &#8220;marriage amendment.&#8221;  Guess who they got to show up to support Amendment 2?</p>
<p>Westboro Baptist. <a href="http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/oct/15/anti-gay-church-participate-debate-gay-marriage-ba/">I kid you not</a>.</p>
<p>It turns out that Westboro Baptist was invited by the Stonewall Legal Alliance, an LGBT advocacy group at the FIU College of Law.</p>
<p>This should be fun. Not enlightening, but fun. Some on the right <a href="http://randythomas.org/2008/10/21/florida-international-university-replaces-proper-debate-with-hateful-infotainment/">are not amused</a>. I&#8217;m not a fan myself of giving this group legitimacy. What do you think?</p>
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		<title>A &#8220;Guest Post&#8221; from Shirley Phelps: Nine Reasons Why &#8220;God HATES Colorado&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/08/29/2802</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Burroway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Democratic National Convention is over. The Obama has been nominated, the speeches have been made, and now everyone is beginning their long treks home, inspired by the closing night and energized for the fall campaign.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Democratic National Convention is over. The Obama has been nominated, the speeches have been made, and now everyone is beginning their long treks home, inspired by the closing night and energized for the fall campaign.</p>
<p>The convention drew quite a few people to Denver, many of them with differing agendas and messages. Among them was <a href="http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/08/26/protesters-face-down-anti-gay-hate-group/">a contingent from Westboro Baptist</a>, the famous God-Hates-Fags brand of &#8220;Christians.&#8221; BTB contributing author Daniel Gonzales recently moved to Denver, and when he learned that the WBC folks have labeled the entire state as the &#8220;land of the Sodomites,&#8221; he wondered how all of Colorado happened to earn such a reputation. So he decided to write to Shirley Phelps:</p>
<blockquote><p>Good morning Shirley,</p>
<p>I&#8217;m one of <a href="http://www.goodasyou.org/">Jeremy Hooper&#8217;s</a> activist friends out of Denver and I also write for a local gay magazine (<a href="http://www.gayzettedenver.com/splash.asp">the gayzette</a>) here so I had a question about your DNC press release, specifically &#8220;Colorado &#8211; Land<br />
of the Sodomites.&#8221;  Could you elaborate on how you reached that determination?  Most locals would agree Denver can be pretty gay at times but I&#8217;m curious what the state as a whole did to earn this title.</p>
<p>I would be happy to print your response in it&#8217;s entirety (as long as it&#8217;s not like a thousands words) and may swing by one of your protest sites to say hi during your visit.</p>
<p>thanks,<br />
Dan Gonzales</p></blockquote>
<p>Ms. Shirley&#8217;s response managed to cross the thousand word threshold &#8212; 1,860 words, to be exact &#8212; listing nine reasons why &#8220;God HATES Colorado.&#8221; It&#8217;s robably too long to appear on the pages of the Gayzette, but since we strive to present differing points of view from time to time on this web site, we thought you might be interested in what&#8217;s on her mind.</p>
<p>Or then again, maybe not. To me, it all has the quality of a car wreck &#8212; you know its ugly, but you can&#8217;t help but look. So go on. You know you want to.</p>
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<p>Good morning Dan(iel) :)  Daniel was greatly beloved by his God &#8211; and that is just goodness &#8211; if God would say that about me, all would be well!  I would recommend a reading of Daniel 9 &#8211; amazing words and perfect for this hour!  Daniel was permitted to see these days that we live in and how it was going to look &#8211; he was so horrified at the sight of it, that at one point, he passed clean out!  The last several chapters of the short and excellent book of Daniel would lay out those details.</p>
<p>I would be happy to tell you why they are land of the Sodomite Damned!</p>
<p>Begin with this &#8211; God hates Doomed america because God hates fags and God hates fag enablers!!  Denver and the rest of Colorado is FULL of fag enablers.  They are busy hating each other, when the Lord their God has commended them to LOVE each other!  Here &#8211; let me find that for you where God defined for you how that standard looks &#8211; you know I can, to wit:</p>
<p>Leviticus 19:17  Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him. . . but thoushalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thesignsofthetimes.net/videos/signmovies/ltner.html"rel="nofollow" >Here is where my love explained it and did a most excellent job</a> &#8211; you might<br />
like it :):</p>
<p>Every day things are happening in Colorado to show the wrath of God and his smiting rod that abides upon the children of disobedience called Colorado, and you guys just go stomping along like brute beasts ignoring the warnings &#8211; check out now:  Mic 6:9  The LORD&#8217;S voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.</p>
<p>The promise of God to a people such as this Doomed american nation of rebels against their God is that he will still have compassion upon you.  His compassion is that he sends his people to warn you, and he said &#8211; when I do that, LEAVE THEM ALONE!  But not really dumb Colorado.  No &#8211; early on in our 18 year ministry, you dummies distinguished yourselves as particularly virulent haters of God and thus haters of his people.  I will list a few of the things you did and then tell you what that means for you:</p>
<p>1. Church lady &#8211; I know you know about the so-called church lady daily faxes filled with lies and slander against the people of God for NO cause except that we were determined to do our duty to God and man in the early days of our ministry &#8211; right out of Colorado Springs, CO.  All under cover of secrecy &#8211; not out on the public streets where light can shine upon your words and deeds and be tested.</p>
<p>2. Boulder, CO &#8211; a group of 7 mostly young ladies were set upon &#8211; their tires slashed and so forth &#8211; mobbed at the Colorado University of Perverts there.</p>
<p>3. Colorado Springs, CO &#8211; the mayor came out personally to our picket in about March, 2005 and handed us a letter saying that we were NOT welcome &#8211; YIKES &#8211; the Mayor &#8211; the government &#8211; who the hell cares what the government has to say ABOUT RELIGION??</p>
<p>4. The Law &#8211; oh yes &#8211; in March, 2006, 31 of our people stood outside your statehouse warning you that passing that law trying to make it a CRIME to stand on a PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY and serve God in truth &#8211; oh my &#8211; WOE unto you Colorado.</p>
<p>5. Boulder, CO &#8211; one lone faithful servant of God from WBC stood with a banner &#8211; FEAR GOD &#8211; NOT FAGS and you can imagine what that looked like &#8211; it took a line of police officers just to make those brute bastards behave!</p>
<p>6. Your blind, brute beast Supreme Court sticking it&#8217;s nose where it HAD NO BUSINESS told the mother in the domestic relations matter that she could NOT take her children to a church that said in a most wimpy, whiney, apologetic fashion say that the homosexual life style might not be such a good idea.  YIKES!  The Supreme Court of Clueless Colorado needs to shut the hell up!!  God hates them!</p>
<p>7. Standing on your streets in Golden, CO, in 2003 the loving and tolerant pigs there used our picket line for target practice with full bottles of pop and eggs and other assorted projectiles, all because we said &#8211; Cheney is pushing a perverse agenda and his filthy dyke daughter is the product of the curse of God upon him and his house because he has policies of rebellion against God and his commandments and standards.  God hates Cheney so WHAT is Doomed america doing with this beast as VP?  Good question that!</p>
<p>8. 1999 we stood on the streets of Trinidad, CO &#8211; the police were excellent, but the people are perverse &#8211; there is the Mecca for Doomed american perverts to get snipped and clipped and mutilated so that their outside is as grotesque as their dark evil hearts &#8211; but you know, at the end of the day, you cannot change your chromosomes!!</p>
<p>9. October, 2002, we were at Colorado State University &#8211; they were punishing some frat house because they made fun of  fags.  Thereby sending a message to EVERY young person in Doomed colorado that if they dare speak against their idol the fags, they will be likewise punished.</p>
<p>In all, we have been into CO about 30 times &#8211; all powerful efforts to get you to understand that the Standards of God are NOT on the table to be disposed of, AT YOUR WILL!!  God does not change and you know it!  Every single person in that state is responsible for the terrible wrath that you brought upon your children.  When Columbine happened in April of 1999, it should have been a wake up call &#8211; but NO &#8211; NOT ONE PERSON rose up in Colorado to say &#8211; we should REPENT &#8211; we should mourn for our sins!  WE DID OUR DUTY THEN TOO!  We were there when they had the big squall fest.</p>
<p>The men of Nineveh repented at the preaching of Jonah, but did Colorado?  NO &#8211; so here are the two places in the scriptures that best lay out your current situation &#8211; check it:</p>
<p>Isaiah 1 &#8211; and remember, Isaiah was preaching several hundred years after the destruction of Sodom, and he was preaching to DOOMED Israel &#8211; just like we preach to DOOMED america.</p>
<p>Isaiah 1:2 ¶  Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.<br />
3  The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master&#8217;s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.<br />
4  Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.<br />
5  Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.<br />
6  From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.<br />
7  Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.<br />
8  And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.<br />
9  Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.<br />
10 ¶  Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.<br />
11  To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.<br />
12  When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?<br />
13  Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.<br />
14  Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.<br />
15  And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.</p>
<p>Good stuff that!</p>
<p>Now &#8211; here is the very blue print for your destruction that now is appearing on the landscape and daily comes into sharper focus &#8211; shortly, you will see the full face of it in all of its EXCELLENT glory!  It is BEAUTIFUL in it&#8217;s simplicity!!  Read these words with distinction and weep and mourn for your great error!</p>
<p>2 Chronicles 36:11 ¶  Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.<br />
12  And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD.<br />
13  And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.<br />
14  Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.<br />
15  And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:<br />
16  But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.</p>
<p>I would go on, because the words are so many, but you asked me to be brief :)  I&#8217;m just sayin . . . God HATES Colorado, land of the sodomite damned. The Lord is coming and america is DOOMED!!</p>
<p>Your best friend,</p>
<p>Shirley Phelps-Roper<br />
Exuberant servant of the Living God (his name is Man of War and his name is Jealous) in these very last days of all!!</p>
<p>Oh &#8211; please do stop and visit &#8211; any friend of Jeremy&#8217;s is a friend of mine! I will be with the group that is in Denver on Wednesday and Thursday.</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Million Fag March&#8221; Descends on Westboro Baptist</title>
		<link>http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/03/31/1731</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Burroway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The name of the march was a bit facetious, but the results weren&#8217;t. About 400 people gathered in Gage Park near Fred Phelp&#8217;s Westboro Baptist Church to demonstrate against the &#8220;God Hates Fags&#8221; message that the Phelps clan has been spreading. Kansas City&#8217;s Fox4 has the details:
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The name of the march was a bit facetious, but the results weren&#8217;t. About 400 people gathered in Gage Park near Fred Phelp&#8217;s Westboro Baptist Church to demonstrate against the &#8220;God Hates Fags&#8221; message that the Phelps clan has been spreading. Kansas City&#8217;s <a href="http://www.myfoxkc.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=6174559&amp;version=1&amp;locale=EN-US&amp;layoutCode=VSTY&amp;pageId=1.1.1">Fox4 has the details</a>:</p>
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		<title>Now This Is Just Sad&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/01/31/1372</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Burroway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fred Phelp&#8217;s Westboro Baptist cultists were all set to jump into the spotlight with a promised high-profile protest of Heath Ledger&#8217;s funeral. There&#8217;s just one problem. They don&#8217;t know where it is:
For misguided reasons you are hiding the body of Heath Ledger, and refusing the divulge the time, date, and place of his burial in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fred Phelp&#8217;s Westboro Baptist cultists were all set to jump into the spotlight with a promised high-profile <a href="http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/category/activists-anti-gay/fred-phelps/" class="articleLink">protest of Heath Ledger&#8217;s funeral</a>. There&#8217;s just one problem. <a href="http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/btb/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/heathledgerletter.png" title="Letter to Heath Ledger’s Family" class="articleLink">They don&#8217;t know where it is</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>For misguided reasons you are hiding the body of Heath Ledger, and refusing the divulge the time, date, and place of his burial in Perth, Australia, so that we at Westboro Baptist Church cannot attend &#8212; in respectful proximity &#8212; and conduct a religious service. &#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230; Please tell us the time, date and place of Heath&#8217;s funeral in Australia. Thank you.</p></blockquote>
<p>That was Monday, January 28, and I guess Westboro&#8217;s engraved invitation still hasn&#8217;t arrived. So yesterday <a href="http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/btb/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/godhatesaustralia.png" title="God Hates Australia" class="articleLink">the Phelps moved to Plan &#8220;B&#8221;</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>WBC will soon launch a new Website &#8212; titled GodHatesAustralia. Watch for it.</p></blockquote>
<p>Doesn&#8217;t it just break your heart?</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> Sadder still. As the commenters have noted, the Phelps clan sent out their second press release, but they neglected to do one very important thing: they didn&#8217;t register the domain name. Click on <a href="http://www.godhatesaustralia.com/gha/gha.html">GodHatesAustralia.com</a>, and you see this:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Correction<br />
</strong>There has been recent statements in the media that godhatesaustralia.com was registered recently by the Westboro Baptist Church. While their intention may have been to register godhatesaustralia, they were too late. Love thy neighbour.</p></blockquote>
<p>The dancing bear is a nice touch. Poor Westboro. They just can&#8217;t get a break.</p>
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		<title>Phelps Clan To Protest Heath Ledger&#8217;s Funeral</title>
		<link>http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/01/23/1333</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Burroway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Never one to pass an opportunity to put a &#8220;Christian&#8221; face on things, the anti-gay Phelpsian cult has announced that they will be protesting Heath Ledger&#8217;s funeral:
&#8230; God hates Fags! &#38; Fag-Enablers! &#8230;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/btb/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/didnttakelong.png" alt="That Didn’t Take Long" />Never one to pass an opportunity to put a &#8220;Christian&#8221; face on things, the anti-gay Phelpsian cult has announced that they will be protesting <a href="http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/btb/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/heath1.jpg" title="heath1.jpg" class="articleLink">Heath Ledger&#8217;s funeral</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8230; God hates Fags! &amp; Fag-Enablers! &#8230;</p>
<p>Heath Ledger is now in Hell, and has begun serving his eternal sentence there &#8212; beside which, nothing else about Heath Ledger is relevant or consequential.</p></blockquote>
<p>A lovely bunch.</p>
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		<title>That Didn&#8217;t Take Long</title>
		<link>http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2007/12/27/1193</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 03:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Burroway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A tiger escaped its enclosure in the San Francisco zoo and killing one young man and seriously mauled two more on Christmas Day, just as the zoo was about to close.  Our friends at Westboro Baptist had their press release ready to go the very next day:
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/27/MNFFU5G80.DTL">A tiger escaped its enclosure</a> in the San Francisco zoo and killing one young man and seriously mauled two more on Christmas Day, just as the zoo was about to close.  Our friends at Westboro Baptist had their <a href="http://www.godhatesfags.com/written/fliers/20071226_san-francisco-tiger.pdf" rel="nofollow">press release</a> ready to go the very next day:<a href="http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/btb/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/westborosfzoo.jpg" title="Westboro Press Release" class="articleLink"><img src="http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/btb/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/westborosfzoo.jpg" style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" alt="Westboro Press Release" width="300" /></a></p>
<p>Uh, happy Feast of St. Stevens (a.k.a Boxing Day)&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Flirting With A Westboro Man</title>
		<link>http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2007/11/18/1023</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Burroway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles Firth is an Australian comedian living in the US. He appears on the ABC&#8217;s (Australian Brocasting Company) The Chaser&#8217;s War On Everything in a recurring segment called &#8220;Firth In America.&#8221; In this segment, he discovers the allure of a &#8220;Westboro Boi.&#8221;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Charles Firth is an Australian comedian living in the US. He appears on the ABC&#8217;s (Australian Brocasting Company) <em><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/tv/chaser/war/">The Chaser&#8217;s War On Everything</a></em> in a recurring segment called &#8220;Firth In America.&#8221; In this segment, he discovers the allure of a &#8220;Westboro Boi.&#8221;</p>
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