Faces of hate and bigotry

[fd_midori]

In the last post I intentionally didn't post about the protesters there

Comments

[reichmarshall]

She's wearing an American flag as a skirt. Yeah, THAT'S respectful.

[truckerspike]

...while her daughter uses the gay pride flag as a doormat.

Unbelievable.

[slfisher]

I love the picture of the four protesters in the teeny, weeny, 4x4 space, hemmed in by one section of security fence. That so perfectly exemplifies how small their voices are.

[truckerspike]

There's more guilt in that square than it was designed for. I'm a firm believer in that.

[truckerspike]

"homo sex is a threat to national security"?

Give me a break!

It wasn't a bunch of leathermen flying planes into buildings!

What appalls me more than anything about these protesters is that they rarely have their facts straight (pun intended).

"love and tolerance- yes. same sex marriage- no"? If you were tolerant, why did you even make the sign?

[sugarmommaless]

"homo sex is a threat to national security"?

I WISH I could claim so much power! And then I'd have even more sex to become even more powerful! Bwa ha ha haaa!

[angou_kohaku]

I agree truckerspike. I think someone needs a dictionary to look up the word "tolerance".

Circular logic

[dasade]

"homo sex is a threat to national security"

This was the argument they used to keep homosexuals out of the military for so long. The theory being that homosexuality made you susceptible to being blackmailed and therefore a potential security risk. So you were thrown out of the service.

But the thing that made you susceptible to the blackmail was not the homosexuality, but rather the fact that if it was discovered, you would be thrown out of the service.

Logically, if you stopped throwing them out, then they would stop being security risks. There is a "Duh" in there somewhere if the circular argument had not already given me a headache.

[randomcub]

It's quite a family. Two brothers (Nate and Mark) and two sisters (Katherine Phelps-Griffin and Dorotha Olive Bird) have broken away. The brothers have spoken about what it was like to grow up there. The stories are truly awful and not for the faint of heart.

http://www.rickross.com/reference/westboro/westboro3.html

http://www.plattsburghforpeace.com/fredphelps.htm

[cyclothemia]

Yeah, exactly. I'd be surprised, but it's the Rev Fred Phelps and his lot- you can tell from the font.

However- I think I need a "Homo sex is a threat to national security" tee shirt. Desperately.

[randomcub]

heh. Yeah, that'd be a great shirt to wear to Pride. . .

[missdissent]

That's awful. Those poor kids. Imagine leaving and thinking you'd wake up in hell!

[sugarmommaless]

Oh, gosh. It's so sad. I'm glad that groups like this one http://www.soulforce.org/ exist as a counter movement.