Westboro Baptist Church: 0, Comic-Con counterprotesters: 1

Why do the Westboro Baptist Church and the infamous Fred Phelps even bother?

The demonstrations by this Kansas-based group (who run a Web site called God Hates Fags) constantly backfire.

They've held protests across America, but their attempt to stage protests in Canada, such as at the Winnipeg funeral of Tim McLean (the man who was beheaded on a Greyhound bus by a stranger) and at a performance of The Laramie Project in Vancouver in 2008, were called off as counterprotesters took action.

Their latest shenanigan, staging a protest at Comic-Con 2010 last Thursday (July 22) in San Diego, wilted under the power and ingenuity of their opposition's greatest weapon: humour.

Counterprotesters showed up in costumes (including a man dressed up as Jesus) and carried with signs that read:
All glory to the Hypno-Toad
God hates Jedi
God hates kittens
Odin is God: Read The Mighty Thor #5
Is this thing on?
Have you seen my kids?
Kill all humans (sign held by a Futurama robot)
Magnets: How the ?*! do they work???

Comments

22 Comments

Mary

Jul 26, 2010 at 2:14pm

Why does the WBC bother? Because the Bible commands Christians to warn you rebels that God is going to judge you and send you to Hell ... even though we Christians know already that you are not going to listen. God demands a witness. Someone who will testify on Judgment Day that YOU were warned and refused to listen.

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Andrew

Jul 26, 2010 at 5:00pm

The WBC are not Christians, they are a deluded cult headed by an equally-deluded man who is nothing more than a hatemonger. They pride themselves on spreading pain and misery to people, and use religion as a grounds to spread their hate.

Thankfully, I am an Agnostic, that way I am free of these Old-Testament incarnate lunatics who use a bronze-age text to justify their bigotry.

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Banana Hammock

Jul 26, 2010 at 6:21pm

lmao at the above comment.

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Carey

Jul 26, 2010 at 7:10pm

There's a special place in hell for those that choose to bear false witness to a just but loving God. WBC will be there.

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Abe

Jul 26, 2010 at 7:21pm

Mary - how do you know YOUR God is the right one?

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Rich Lane

Jul 26, 2010 at 7:44pm

"...the Bible commands Christians to warn you rebels that God is going to judge you and send you to Hell "

But Return of the Jedi commands that the rebels win in the end and get a bar-b-que in their honor from a bunch of dwarfs dressed as furries.

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Martin

Jul 27, 2010 at 9:53am

Judge not, lest ye be judged, Fred Phelps.

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Devlin Nullinger

Jul 27, 2010 at 9:57am

Hey, Mary: My God just ate yours for dinner. And he's coming for you next!

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Scott Smith

Jul 27, 2010 at 10:42am

God can bite my shiny metal @ss too.

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Jacky

Jul 27, 2010 at 11:23am

Mary, why bother making a comment like that? It isn't satirical or comedic, its just a waste. People go around preaching things and sometimes they are annoying like the WBC whose members are basically just the family. It isn't just religious people who preach, ever hear what words come out the mouth of an atheist preaching their religion of non-believing citing atheist scripture and famous atheists. Which is exactly akin to a Roman Catholic citing the Bible, and talking about the Pope.

Another point on the talking about gods fighting gods, Hinduism: 6 billion gods in orthodox teachings. Get some.

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