Westboro Baptist Cult Coming To Maryland For Crazytime

7:02 pm EST March 26th, 2009 | News | 16 Comments

Just great.

A church based in Topeka, Kansas is scheduled to demonstrate next month outside Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda because the school, which opened in 1962, is named for a man who may have been homosexual.

Westboro Baptist Church has been drawing national attention for staging anti-homosexuality demonstrations at military funerals, on the theory that fallen troops are God’s punishment for a country tolerant of homosexuals.

Though I gotta say, if they’re devoting time and resources to protesting Walt Whitman they must have an insane amount of time on their hands. Leaves of grass, indeed.

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16 Responses to “Westboro Baptist Cult Coming To Maryland For Crazytime”

  1. ed says:
    March 26, 2009 at 7:13 pm

    Hey, those former George Bush, Jr. administration appointees have to find something to do.

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89288713

    Amazing isn’t it? These people aren’t just afeared of Teh Gay, but of Teh Might Be Gay.

  2. Quaker in a Basement says:
    March 26, 2009 at 8:37 pm

    They’re showing up to protest a decision made almost a half century ago?

    That’s effective.

  3. Warren Terra says:
    March 26, 2009 at 8:43 pm

    Time for a counter-demonstration; at least one recent one seems to have rather rocked. The God Hates Figs flyer apparently handed out there was especially great; I’m sure with a little Googling you could find a PDF and run off a handful of copies.

    P.S. Didn’t your commenting system used to have a Preview function?

  4. mambochicken23 says:
    March 26, 2009 at 10:01 pm

    Sigh. I went to high school in Topeka. It makes me sick. Let’s face it – the state of Kansas has a bad enough name associated with it without these nutjobs running around protesting teh eeeeevilness of gays.

  5. Jaim says:
    March 26, 2009 at 10:10 pm

    Stay classy, Republicans.

  6. jr says:
    March 26, 2009 at 11:13 pm

    Bill O’Reilly reminded me of the Phelps clan when he had his jihad against Dr. Tiller tonight

  7. texan_reader says:
    March 27, 2009 at 1:45 am

    That is stupid.

  8. anotherbozo says:
    March 27, 2009 at 8:07 am

    I say ship them off to DaVinci airport in Rome. Let them protest that.

  9. anotherbozo says:
    March 27, 2009 at 8:17 am

    CTTOI, there’s a Walt Whitman Intermediate School in Brooklyn. And another Walt Whitman High School in Huntington Station, and an elementary school in Woodbury, NY. And on the way up here they can gas up at the Walt Whitman Service Area on the New Jersey Turnpike. And then…

  10. BrianK says:
    March 27, 2009 at 11:06 am

    I think Homer Simpson is now planning their actions. “Damn you, Walt Whitman! I-hate-you-Walt-freaking-Whitman! ‘Leaves of Grass’, my ass!”

  11. I'm a Hick says:
    March 27, 2009 at 11:09 am

    They won’t like this show either:
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063948/

  12. Thomas Allen says:
    March 27, 2009 at 11:22 am

    I hereby invite the Phelps klan to Philadelphia, where they can protest the Walt Whitman Bridge by jumping off of it.

  13. Duros62 says:
    March 27, 2009 at 12:56 pm

    Hey, lookathat! Another whole slew of attention whores!

    I love the smell of desperation.

    Oliver, you don’t have a paint ball gun by any chance, do you?

  14. durablend says:
    March 27, 2009 at 5:37 pm

    Don’t forget the Walt Whitman Mall out on Long Island (Huntington, NY)

  15. Stu says:
    March 27, 2009 at 7:10 pm

    Fred Phelps isn’t a pastor, and he isn’t a protester. He’s a con artist.

  16. Duros62 says:
    March 28, 2009 at 11:50 am

    Wow, Stu, they’re like carnies, aren’t they?

    Even L. Ron Hubbard and Joseph Smith had more scruples than this bunch of cobags.