Group opposed to homosexuality protests at funeral for fallen soldier
Inside Grace Lutheran Church last Wednesday family and friends of fallen Ripon soldier Sergeant Andrew Wallace grieved. Outside, others stood with signs with messages including 'America is doomed,'...
View ArticleUpdated: Kansas group to picket memorial service (Fred Phelps, WV)
In a phone interview today, Shirley Phelps-Roper informed this reporter that a group of approximately 15 people will be coming to Buckhannon to picket at the memorial service on Sunday, January 15....
View ArticleStates move to bar protests at soldiers’ funerals
States move to bar protests at soldiersÂ’ funerals FundamentalistsÂ’ picketing may provoke clash of privacy, free speech rights The Associated Press Updated: 8:48 p.m. ET Feb. 6, 2006 COLUMBUS, Ohio -...
View ArticleIdiots in the hands of an angry God
Fred Phelps calls himself a Christian minister, but his actions resemble a self-styled hatemonger with no room in his heart for the love of God or the forgiveness taught in ChristÂ’s Gospel. Phelps has...
View ArticleMSU Professor Says Funeral Protest Ban Should Be Thrown Out
created: 3/8/2006 8:26:18 AM updated: 3/8/2006 8:29:11 AM SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) -- A Missouri State University professor says a new state law that limits protests at funerals is so broad that it...
View ArticleWestboro church, ACLU file lawsuit
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Kansas church group that protests at military funerals nationwide filed suit in federal court, saying a Missouri law banning such picketing infringes on religious freedom and free...
View ArticleProtesters target medic's funeral (Kansas kooks are back)
Men and women of the Patriot Guard Riders have one main mission: Show respect for soldiers killed in war and shield the mourning families and friends from protesters. Protests and military funerals...
View Article"Church" picketing Huntsville bus victims' funerals?
Westboro Baptist Church (WBC Chronicles - Since 1955) 3701 SW 12" Street Topeka, Ks. 66604 785-273-0325 Religious Opinion and Bible Commentary on Current Events Tuesday, November 21,2006 NEWS RELEASE...
View ArticleFred Phelps Hate Parade
If this is not the place for vanity posts I apologize, but it's quite breaking news either. I heard at my church today that the Westboro Baptist Church will be protesting outside of a Roman Catholic...
View ArticlePhelps testifies in Maryland lawsuit (Fred Phelps of "GodHatesFags"...
BALTIMORE (AP) - The head of a fundamentalist Kansas church being sued over a funeral protest testified in Baltimore today. Fred Phelps of Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church said he didn't consider...
View ArticleMorford: What Price Youth, Spider-Man? (Self-Absorption Alert!)
So then a largish envelope comes in the mail and it's from my mother and it contains a single, well-used comic book sealed in a plastic Zip-Loc bag, a book from my childhood she found in a storage box...
View ArticleMorford: Sentient Non-Idiots For Kerry
And isn't it funny how at least 13 members of Congress have actually requested that the United Nations monitor this year's U.S. presidential election, just because, just in case, just to ensure there's...
View ArticleMorford: Dick Cheney Gets His Gay On
Bunny-curdling screams were heard throughout the Beltway last week and Laura Bush herself got all flustered and confused as vice president and noted hunk of rabid warmongering neoconservatism Dick...
View ArticleMorford: Where Is Your Hallowed Balm? Music? Yoga? Porn?
I am searching for a few good things. Things to counteract, to dissolve the simmering dread, to deflect the waves of nausea and karmic pain induced by the incessantly depressing media maelstrom and the...
View ArticleMorford: Apocalypse Bush! (Why care for the planet when the End Times are...
This is the great thing about rabid fundamentalism. You really just don't have to give a damn. Take the environment. I mean, isn't it just a little pointless to care so damn deeply about the air and...
View ArticleMorford: Love Masochism? Vote BushCo!
I have a good friend who believes, gloomily, bitterly, resignedly, that not only are we in for four more years of painful and cheerless BushCo-branded tyranny and misprision and aww-shucks dumb-guy...
View ArticleMorford: Kiss My Megatruck, Dude
Aww, screw it. I mean, really. You just gotta love this thing. You just gotta love the fact that some semitruck company somewhere called International Truck and Engine Corp. is now coming out with what...
View ArticleMorford: Does God Hate Florida?
You know it's true. You know if, say, San Francisco had just been blasted by not two, not three, but fully four lethal trailer-park-eating earthquakes, why, the Right-wing Bible set would be yelping...
View ArticleWrite More About Skull & Bones
Secret societies? UFOs? The truth about what *really* happened on 9/11? The media cowers I get this a lot: Hey Mark, you're a rather weird, unconventional columnist, why don't you quit toeing the...
View ArticleGet Out And Vote And Scream
So here we are, staring down a rather historic moment amidst the sputtering ideological orgy that is the American experiment and if you're paying any sort of attention at all you're doubtlessly drunk...
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