Westboro Baptist Church to pay more than $3,000
Offline Reporter: Associated PressEmail: [email protected]
BALTIMORE (AP) -- A federal judge in Baltimore is ordering
Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church to pay more than $3,000 in
costs related to the funeral of a Marine the group picketed.
Albert Snyder of York, Pennsylvania, is suing because church
members demonstrated at the funeral of his son, Lance Corporal
Matthew Snyder. Church members also posted pictures of the protest
on their Web site.
Corporal Snyder was killed in Iraq in March.
The lawsuit was filed in June. It says church members violated
the family's right to privacy and defamed the Marine and his family
at the funeral and on the church's Web site.
Court documents say the church has 30 days to make the payment
to Snyder.
People who think there is something they refer to as god don't ask enough questions.
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I wish he could have hit them for more than 3 grand...sheesh
Maybe like 5 grand and one of their virgin daughters. LOL.
The fine should have been higher for sure. I think defamations lawsuits are going to be the way to get the "Fred Clan" to stop or slow down. If we want freedom of speech in this country the courts cannot start limiting his protests, the way to take action will be personal lawsuits and hit him in the pocket.
What about taking over his church and turning it into a gay bar?
If I sued them, just ot piss them off I would give all of the money to a gay/Aids relief charity...and buy a banner that said where the money came from...and try to get it worked into the settlement that fred had to get a tatoo on his forehead saying, "I know you're gay because I want to fuck you in the ass."
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Talk about getting beat at your game! ha ha. And I think that giving the settlement money to a gay organization would be the best thing a person could do. Phelps would go insane!! Well, I question his mental capacity to begin with, but that would definitely be sweet revenge.
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I wonder what the legality of publicly donating money in someone else's name, b/c if it's legal, maybe that would be a good way to get back at them. Fundraise to give money to gay charities and charities for wounded soldiers in the name of Fred Phelps....i like it...
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Talking about Fred Phelps going insane is kind of like talking about a sumo getting fat.
LOL!
Indeed.
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True. But I had a professor once who said that calling someone insane is excusing them from their actions. That just stuck with me so I hesitate to label dickheads like Phelps insane. He knows exactly what he is doing and he's a disgusting, reprehensible individual.
I think it would be really funny to run a fundraiser supporting gay marriage or something and call it Phelps Fundraiser or something else similar. Of course, he'd probably find a way to sue the crap out of me.
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We could use phonetic spellings so that we aren't actually raising fund in the name "Fred Phelps", but so that people know what we're doing.
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Here's where Michael Moore pull a joke on Fred Phelps:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33-_9nOX8KM
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I'd like to see them get interviewed on a show that would really let them have it (like Howard Stern.) I know they sent an e-mail there for them to come on the RRS show but as far as I know they never responded.
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The Westborough Baptist Church should be pelted with gay porn and cat called by gay men and women for the rest of their lives. Damn I wish I were gay. I'd go to every one of their pickets and hit on Fred Phelps daughter. It would be a tough job, but I would be proud to do it. Hell I might do it anyway. They won't know the difference.
Ah, the pitter patter of tiny feet in huge combat boots.
ha ha!!! I just have a mental picture of a group of drag queens throwing porn at the WBC. That'd be very funny. Or perhaps you could have a gay 'hot body' contest right next to where they are protesting. That would send them running for the hills, guaranteed! Those people are such mental midgets.
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Dude, now you're just giving me more ideas.... and nothing makes me feel more insecure about my body than drag queens and the religious right.....
Ah, the pitter patter of tiny feet in huge combat boots.
Penny Arcade did it with Jack Thompson.
I'd totally donate some money to the awesome cause of pissing this asshole off.
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I'd support that rational response to WBC. Hell, I'd dress up in a Borat man-kini and protest them with a sign saying what we did.
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It's a start. This will probably be tied up in the courts for years with appeals.
Not to mention, I'll bet Fred has his money tucked back somewhere that the court judgement couldn't get to it anyway.
Somewhere I've seen tee shirts that said "Phuck Phred Phelps". I think that would be a good name for a fundraiser.
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I'd like to see Fred Phelps face get interviewed by the business end of an aluminium baseball bat. But hey, I have some strange ideas as to what passes for entertainment
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The Phelps clan will come to an end, none of his grand-daughters actually want to get married - they can't procreate! There will be no more Phelpsies soon enough.
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I keep thinking about Nathan Lane in The Birdcage for some reason.
In all seriousness, it's a risky thing trying to do anything to that clan. Phelps is sue-happy and I'm sure all this crap is going to take years to sort out.
(Though I'd still love to see what would happen if a gay couple in banana boat bikinis set up a little 'viewing' area where Phelps was protesting and play really raunchy gay porn.) I think his head would explode.
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I believe in their eyes, just the support of gay people makes you gay by proxy. So scream, "I'm gay", turn up that stereo (type) and start "Vogue(ing)" around the house. {Intentional stereotype supplied just for the funny visual}.
You know, I don't get why this ass-clown didn't find it necessary to picket at Haggard's church or carry picket signs about his tryst w/ the male prostitute.
Anyway Phelps is a great example of what happens when you start to interpret the bible literally. Bless his cold, tainted little heart.
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
George Orwell
If I lived in Kansas I would egg Phelp's house everyday. I might just settle for egging The Christian Union (seriously these guys are almost as bad!!) here on my small campus.
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The rational response squad does not support nor condone criminal activity....but I bet they would chuckle, atleast a little bit...
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yeah... but in order for it to be criminal... they'd have to prove it was me
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Ah, the pitter patter of tiny feet in huge combat boots.
Yeah I would love to find out if there was a way to setup what was mentioned earlier, a charity of somesort in Phelp's name and have it legal so that he couldn't sue.
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We've got biologists, philosophers, psychologists, etc etc. Don't we have any lawyers here?
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I don't think it is ever illegal to donate in someone else's name
Look at my blog! It's awesome!
I'm also on this Twitter thing
Some people donated to charity in my best friends' names for the wedding present.
That would be so funny to donate in PFLAG to his name!
I'd definitely put money behind that...
(edited for misspelling)
I would donate to NAMBLA just to piss him off, if I didn't hate everything that they stand for that is...
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Or perhaps the RDFSR (is that the right Acronym? I'm too damn dyslexic)