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[Ognir]

http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/WBC/def ... 3&item=WBC

Westboro Baptist Church
About WBC

The Topeka, Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is a small virulently homophobic, anti-Semitic hate group that regularly stages protests around the country, often several times a week. The group pickets institutions and individuals they think support homosexuality or otherwise subvert what they believe is God's law.

Incorporated in 1967 as a not-for-profit organization, WBC considers itself an "Old School (or Primitive)" Baptist Church. WBC's leader is Fred Phelps and several of his children and dozens of his grandchildren appear to constitute the majority of the group's members. WBC has no official affiliation with mainstream Baptist organizations.

While WBC members have protested at Jewish institutions over the years, such institutions were not a major focus for the group until April 2009. Since then, WBC has targeted dozens of Jewish institutions around the country, from Israeli consulates to synagogues to Jewish community centers, distributing anti-Semitic fliers to announce planned protests at these sites. WBC has also been sending volumes (in some cases dozens over the course of a week) of faxes and emails with anti-Semitic and anti-gay messages to various Jewish institutions and individuals.

Other WBC targets include schools the group deems to be accepting of homosexuality; Catholic, Lutheran, and other Christian denominations that WBC feels are heretical; and funerals for people murdered or killed in accidents like plane crashes and for American soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, a tactic the group started in 2005. Though the group's specific focus may shift over time, they believe that nearly all Americans and American institutions are "sinful," so nearly any individual or organization can be targeted.
Shirley Phelps-Roper

In fact, WBC members say that "God's hatred is one of His holy attributes" and that their picketing is a form of preaching to a "doomed" country unable to hear their message in any other way.

Additionally, the group has tried to stage protests in foreign countries. In February 2009, the WBC announced plans to travel to Great Britain to protest the staging at a school there of "The Laramie Project," a play about the vicious murder of a young gay man, Matthew Shepard, in 1998. (British government officials barred the group from entering the country.) The group made it to Canada in August 2008, where they picketed the funeral of a young man who was the victim of a brutal murder on a Greyhound bus, which was national news in that country. Authorities there reportedly tried to prevent the group from entering their country, but the WBC claims it was able to evade Canadian border patrol agents to stage the protest.

[MikeWB]

Someone should send them our "Israel did the 9/11" thread  :lol:

[Father Brown]

I've been aware of this group for sometime. Obviously a Psy-Op in the mold of Kosher Nazis. They seem to exist for two purposes:

1) Make Christians, especially Evangelicals, look like nut-case extremists to the Atheist and Agnostic crowd, lukewarm Catholics, and moderate Lutherans, etc. In other words its aim is to divide the Body of Christ.  

2) Make the majority of Christians who are not full of this hate question their own belief systems about homosexuality.

I can't think of a better group to promote homosexuality as normal than Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Clan. I really don't care what one wants to do in the privacy of their own home and I understand this practice has been going on since the beginning of time. Live and let live, I say in regards to homosexuality. But, at the same time, I do not want to know about it. I am not fascinated by their sexuality, nor do I care to talk about my sexuality with them. Watching TV seems to promote the idea that homosexuality is some type of evolutionary apex to be strived for by all of us common idiots. As if we are simply too dumb to understand its beauty, truth and necessity.

However, when it becomes a lifestyle choice promoted to children through the mass media, in politics, and in the schools, it becomes a recruitment model that actually tries to create homosexuals and populate their ranks. That aspect, the political activism of homosexuality, I will fight against.

Westboro and their ilk, do a great job of taking this kind  of politcal fight off the table.