Westboro Baptist Church announces first picket in Britain

[Croydon Bob]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...n-Britain.html 'God Hates England; Your Queen Is A Whore'. What a way to make friends! At least the Scots and Welsh are OK. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...UK-picket.html

[skbuncks]

Are these the 'god hate America' fundies?

skb

ETA: To answer my own question, yes they are.

[Croydon Bob]

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skb

Yup, 'God hates America!' 'God hates fags!' And now Obama is the Antichrist too! They are more extreme than some parodies, often very funny, but it can't be funny to have them picketing a loved-one's funeral with placards saying that they are glad he's dead.
edit: Hey! Answering your own question is cheating!

[skbuncks]

IIRC they have a very small congregation, mainly indoctrinated family members I think, all dominated by some twisted fucked up pastor dude.

I think Louis Theroux did a programme about them a couple of years ago, although it may have been about some other fundie group, off home now so no time to google it

skb

[polomint38]

Louis did a programme called "The Most hated family in America"

Keith Allen interviewed them for a show he did called "Keith Allen will burn in hell", they had special placards saying Lilly would burn in hell.

Louis' programme was obviously better IMHO, he allows these fools to hang themselves, Keith tried to argue the points (pointless)

[Gazzmatazz]

We should all be honoured that they feel the need to send a crack team of delegates over to partake in a serious and in-depth discourse.......oh, hang on.

[MischiefMonkey]

After that Dutch chap was barred entry, are this lot going to be allowed in?

All for free speech, but addressing adults or picketing children....Which would I rather ban.....

(Personally, neither. But to ban one and not the other?)

[skbuncks]

Here we go:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...01683185935638

skb

ETA: well worth watching for anyone who missed it.

ETA2: I have a memory, possibly a false one, of louis doing a programme with some yankie rapture enthusiasts where he was present in the run up to rapture and the subsequent failure of any rapture to occur. Problem is I cant find any mention of it on google (disclaimer: im drunk). The question is was it a louis programme or some other jurnalist type dude documentry?

skb

[Lord Muck oGentry]

Let them in, I say.

It'll certainly help those whose bowels haven't moved recently— they'll fill their breeks laughing.

[skbuncks]

Here we go:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...01683185935638

I have this running in the background now. I had forgotten quite how bad it was. Words fail me, literally.

skb

[bindeweede]

The streets of this nation are full of married men having gay sex - that's adultery

Well, I think that is what she said. Don't understand...............oh, Christianity.

So full of love, care and empathy. A minority view there, I think. She does not represent the small number of Christians I know.

[tolman]

Have they been told they won't be allowed in before they set off?

If so, that would seem to be a shame.

It'd be much better to wait until they arrived to tell them, and ideally pick some immigration staff who, whatever their sexuality, would be happy to act outrageously camp.

[Croydon Bob]

Westboro have tried to demonstrate outside the same play in the US but have been met by Pastafarian counter-demos. http://www.venganza.org/2008/11/26/w...unter-protest/

[Mojo]

After that Dutch chap was barred entry, are this lot going to be allowed in?

Nope.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/h...re/7898972.stm

[Dubious Dick]

Well, bugger me!