God Hates Fred Phelps

“He (Heath Ledger) got on that big screen with a big, fat message: God is a liar and it’s OK to be gay,” Shirley Phelps, Westboro Baptist Church member.

Hey, Shirley Phelps, guess what? You are a freak. And you are probably going to hell.

The funeral protesters at Westboro Baptist Church, run by that infamous homosexual self-hater, Fred Phelps, are getting out the Tempra paint and poster board. Now that one of Hollywood’s young hot stars, who happened to play a gay character in a movie, has died, they plan to protest his funeral. Imagine their excitement.

They have had lots of practice, from protesting the funeral of Matthew Shepard to fallen U.S. soldiers. But with the death of Heath Ledger, they have decided this is their big chance. Their debut, as it were. All the cameras will be pointing at them. And I suppose they will get on the screen with a few big fat messages of their own, such as, See why we are universally hated, even by our fellow Baptists? and This is what ignorance looks like.

If it weren’t so easy to despise them, I might actually feel sorry for those idiots with the signs. They are just sheep. They are obviously simple-minded, and easily led… I doubt any one of them has ever had an original thought. They drape themselves in a Christian cloak, but they behave in the opposite fashion. As if they sat around in a meeting and said “What wouldn’t Jesus do?”

Unlike most religious groups and cults I have seen, these people aren’t well-intentioned. They have a hate-filled belief system and purposefully cause other people pain. I wouldn’t want to have to answer for that. If Fred Phelps and his followers believe in God, it must be that they are too stupid to be afraid.

Good luck at the Pearly Gates, weirdos.