Does God hate my high school?
I would normally ignore these appalling jerks, except that they happened to be “protesting” outside the high school from which I graduated many long years ago.
Comments
| 25 April 2009, 3:29 pm |
Hm. I wish you hadn’t posted this. Your own school or not. Stop giving them air and let them suffocate. Don’t NORMALLY ignore them. ALWAYS ignore them. Please.
| 25 April 2009, 3:50 pm |
Several years ago they protested at the funeral for an Iraq war veteran in Boston.
The Boston Police bagpiper squad was there and every time the loonies started yelling, 12 bagpipes drowned them out.
| 25 April 2009, 3:52 pm |
I dunno FLS.
Half of me agrees.
But they serve a useful moral lesson…
PS – can’t you change your name? It reflects badly on me ;)
| 25 April 2009, 3:52 pm |
Just another Democrat.
| 25 April 2009, 3:59 pm |
Just another Democrat.
Walt Whitman?
| 25 April 2009, 5:11 pm |
My high school too. I was tickled that they protested it several weeks after dropping by my law school (Univ. of Chicago). It’s like they’re retracing my educational career.
Burning Tree Elementary must have done something to earn their ire. Come on, guys!
| 25 April 2009, 5:18 pm |
Lord, I hope they don’t find out I matriculated at Robert Mapplethorpe Middle School.
| 25 April 2009, 7:45 pm |
The Westboro baptist church are brilliant. I don’t agree with their ideology, but I admire their dogged determination to push out their agenda, despite the offense it causes, and their lack of popularity.
As people who espouse an unpopular cause within the left, you people at HP should learn from them, rather than take the lazy position of badmouthing them.
| 25 April 2009, 9:10 pm |
I was wondering why the Phelps clan hated US soldiers so much, but it turns out that it’s because God Hates Flags.
| 26 April 2009, 12:39 am |
I like this quote from Whitman:
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”
| 26 April 2009, 3:55 pm |
I understand that God loves your high school and if he ever had a child he would send him there.
| 28 April 2009, 10:09 pm |
Is it concievable that Fred Phelps and his fellow bigots ever show any emotion besides hate and fearmongering? Is it possible that they ever relax, share a joke (besides anti-gay ones) simile, (except nastly)? In another words could they ever act like normal, feeling, loving human beings and not some hate-filled machines?
On the plus side, the Walt Whitman students responded well, turning out en masse for their peaceful counter-demonstration that was a fine counterpoint to the full of hate scum across the street.
Note: back in the 1970s, there was a movement to oust openly gay teachers from public schools saying they were a bad role model and could influence kids to turn out gay. Thought this was real LOL given the number of schools named after Walt Whitman!
2nd Note: At the top of the escalators at Washington’s subway Dupoint Circle stop on the Red Line, there are enscribed lines from one of Whitman’s poems (I believe it is “The Wound Dresser”) that moving describes wounded Civil War soldiers, which is from Whitman’s own experiences as a male nurse in a Washington military hospital.
Ah, the Westboro Baptist Church.
Rebekah Phelps-Davis, daughter of Westboro pastor Fred Phelps, said it was “the duty of the servants of God to go where the message needs to be heard.”
Did you know: she had a child out of wedlock. She’ll be burning in hell, along with Walt Whitman.