quote:You are all doomed to Hell; all you Swedes and your Swedish King and his family.
quote:We will hunt down your King. It doesn't matter where he tries to hide.
quote:Your king is the symbol of your damned country, and we shall find him wherever he is. We'll find him whether he is in his castle or elsewhere.
I wonder if it lost something in the translation to Swedish? It doesn't seem to have quite the usual flaming venom. Or maybe Phelps is just getting old? I think he may be a bit disappointed in his reception, though.
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So does he say what great sin the people of Sweden have committed which caused god to smite them with the presence of Fred Phelps? (That's worse than most of the plagues, you know) Were they allowing homosexuals to go unlynched, or was it reading Harry Potter?
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Well, the link has a picture of him holding a sign that says, "Special laws for fags", so I'm guessing it was the former.
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Oh, that's vile. You might want to put a language warning on that, Enigmatic (not that I wasn't expecting it.)
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Personally, I hope he lives a long, long time. He's to the anti-gay marriage camp what the leatherboy thong parades are to the pro-gay marriage camp. Maybe they'll cancel out.
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Does it amuse anyone else as much as it does me that these folks have their panties all in a twist about the the way the King of Sweden "lets" his daughter dress (assuming, of course, that he dictates her apparel), but then they run a photo of her with the offending body parts quite in evidence?
Doesn't that make them disseminators of the very "smut" that they claim to abhor?
quote:Most of his pickets are just him and his family.
I wish that this were the case, but in my experience it's not. Either that or he has a pretty large family, with most of the family members not really looking much alike. I've been at a number of things Phelps' group has picketted against, and when I worked for the State of Kansas in Topeka I used to drive by his group doing one of their regular protests now and then, so I've seen more of them than I'd have liked to.
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[Also edited to add that all the King of Sweden would have to do is hire pairs of lesbians to make out in a circle around him.
I've never seen a Phelps protest break up faster than when a pair of women walked up to them and proceeded to make out. The Phelpsites formed little knots around their hate-speech-placard bearing children and scuttled off like roaches exposed to a bright light]
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Since they're based in Kansas, they probably get a much better turn out there. When they picketed a church up here there were definitely more counter-protesters than protesters. It was fun. And a lot of the protesters were wearing masks over their faces, which seemed odd to me. They want to express their opinion but not have to take responsibility for it? Bunch of chicken-s*&#s.
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I wasn't meaning to say that the counter-protesters didn't outnumber the protesters--they usually do in Kansas, just as they do everywhere else. I just meant that he has plenty of non-family followers. I've edited the quote and added content to my first post in this thread to make that clearer.
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It was several years ago. The one I had to pass closest to to get into the church had a black bandanna folded in half tied right underneath her eyes. Most of them I got a look at had bandannas or something similar covering their faces. It really looked idiotic.
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That's interesting. I was wondering if they were wearing masks now because they were worried about attacks on members of their group now that they're protesting at the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq, but it sounds like the masks predate that practice.
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Maybe the masks are part of the protest? Like, they have some symbolic meaning that I'm not stupid enough to get?
quote:I've never seen a Phelps protest break up faster than when a pair of women walked up to them and proceeded to make out. The Phelpsites formed little knots around their hate-speech-placard bearing children and scuttled off like roaches exposed to a bright light
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He does have a large family, 13 kids and 50-some grandkids. The thing is, they do waaaaay more protests than the ones that get any news (which do have more people, of course.) My friend's sister works at a library in Phelp's hometown. They picket the library on at least a weekly basis, and she says that's just his family and maybe a few other people at the church. He pickets just about anything and everything. It often is 10 or fewer people in the protest, mostly his family.
I know about the library because she sent my friend pictures from the protest. Signs like "God hates ALL kids" and homosexual slurs aimed at Harry Potter. Because the magic/witchcraft thing wasn't "bad" enough for them?
No, I don't have numbers to back up the "most" so I change my assertion to "a lot" of his protests are just him and his family. Going out and picketting things seems to be about all they ever do.
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Yeah Enigmatic, it was the little, regularly held protests that I used to drive by when I worked in Topeka. They were protesting in a park near the capitol building with amazing frequency.
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It was fun. And a lot of the protesters were wearing masks over their faces, which seemed odd to me. They want to express their opinion but not have to take responsibility for it? Bunch of chicken-s*&#s.
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