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  • Anti-Gay Church Westboro Blames Woolwich Soldier Death On Gay People

    Anti-Gay Church Westboro Blames Woolwich Soldier Death On Gay People

    The anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), infamous for its ‘God Hates Fags’ picketing and signage has blamed the death of a soldier slain in Woolwich on God hating the UK, gays and soldiers.

     

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    Taking to Twitter last night the homophobic Church WBC posted this picture named ‘ First Thoughts’ to its 14,000 followers, which read: ‘Not Blessed, Just Cursed’, ‘Fags Doom Nations’ and ‘God Is Your Terrorist’.

    The Twitter post was published just hours after a soldier was killed in a suspected terror attack in Woolwich, London. One man who was captured on camera said he had carried out the attack because British soldiers killed Muslims every day. The victim was killed outside army barracks and it is reported he was wearing a Help For Heroes UK t-shirt.

    Two men were seen brandishing a meat cleaver and machete, with bloodied hands by shocked witnesses. The attack happened in broad daylight.

    Two men were shot by police at the scene and were taken into custody; one man is in hospital in a ‘serious’ condition.

    The outspoken Church WBC has repeatedly gotten itself into hot water over its bigotry and controversial means of picketing, even earning themselves a ban from entering the UK in 2009 and in 2007 were ordered to pay $10.9m after its members cheered a soldier’s death as “punishment” for tolerance for gay people in the US.

    A petition on the White House’s We The People website has gained nearly 360,000 signatures since December. The petition calls to recognise Westboro Baptist Church as a hate group.

     

  • Westboro Church Protest Made Fabulous By Chris

    A man known only by the name Chris, picketed a picket organised by anti-gay church Westboro Baptist Church.

    A picket that was organised by the American church Westboro Baptist Church was made fabulous when a musician named Chris did this…

    The extremist church was protesting outside the Oklahoma City and Houston Rockets NBA playoff following Jason Collins’ decision to come out as gay last week (April 2013)

    The shirtless man, had a US flag draped across his shoulders and posed in front of the church’s demonstrators, and pictures of his solo crusade of fabulousness has made it on the front of many news sites across the world.

  • Petition launches to legal recognise Westboro Baptist Church as a hate group

    Petition launches to legal recognise Westboro Baptist Church as a hate group

    A petition has gone live on the Whitehouse’s website, asking the Obama Administration to legally recognise the infamous Westboro Bapist Church as a hate group.

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    The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is a small, independent fundamentalist group based in Topeka, Kan, known for its extreme ideologies especially those against homosexuals, the military and Jewish people – and hosts a number of websites such as, godhatesfags.com,godhatesislam.com and priestsrapeboys.com.

    The group has recently come under fire after MargiePhelps a memeber of the WBC announced on twitter that members would picket the funerals of the 26 murdered teachers and children of the Newtown massacre which happened last Friday in Connecticut, USA. Most of the children killed by the twenty year old gunman were between the ages of six and seven.

    WBC has outraged many people by blaming the massacre in Sandy Hook on the state’s equal marriage policy.

    The petition, which can be found on the Whitehouse.gov website has already gained over 175,000 signatories, since its creation on the 14th December..

    It reads:

    Legally recognize Westboro Baptist Church as a hate group.

    This group has been recognized as a hate group by organizations, such as The Southern Poverty Law Center, and has repeatedly displayed the actions typical of hate groups.

    Their actions have been directed at many groups, including homosexuals, military, Jewish people and even other Christians. They pose a threat to the welfare and treatment of others and will not improve without some form of imposed regulation.