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Westboro Shows Up in Dallas to Protest Beck — And Wait Until You Hear One Anti-Westboro Protester’s Shock View

Jul. 28, 2012 8:11pm Billy Hallowell

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TheBlaze already told you about the fact that the Westboro Baptist Church, the radical, anti-gay group known for picketing fallen soldiers’ funerals, has been planning to protest Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Love.” On Saturday, they made good on that pledge, as they assembled near Cowboys Stadium in Dallas, Texas, to purportedly sing, chant and speak out against Beck.

Anti Westboro Protester Cant Decide Who Is Worse: Westboro or Beck | #RestoringLove | @glennbeck

Image Credit: Rebekah Phelps-Roper/Twitter

Also in attendance were anti-Westboro picketers who stood firmly against the radical “church” members. Interestingly, at least one of the counter-protesters set out to target Beck as well. “Westboro/Beck: I Can’t Decide Who Is Worse.”

Naturally, we wanted to know why the protester was so conflicted, especially considering Westboro’s bizarre track record. After all, Beck is hosting “Restoring Love,” an inspirational event devoted to service and caring for one another. Westboro, as has been evidenced by the group’s past actions, is devoted to picketing funerals and damning homosexuals (and many others) to hell.

Anti Westboro Protester Cant Decide Who Is Worse: Westboro or Beck | #RestoringLove | @glennbeck

“I think if I had to decide, I don’t know, Beck has a lot more power than Westboro does,” she said. “He’s going to reach a lot more people with his views that I personally don’t agree with.”

While this particular protester was more negative about Beck, others in the group expressed positivity toward “Restoring Love” participants and the event, itself.

Watch TheBlaze’s interview with the anti-Westboro protesters, below:

“I don’t really like [Beck] in the city,” she said, referring to the television and radio host’s move to Dallas. “But at the same time, I don’t really like Westboro being in our city either.”

Image Credit: Shirley Phelps-Roper/Twitter

The protesters also told TheBlaze that Westboro refused to engage them, as they simply sang spoof songs and spouted some of their regular messaging. Here’s what Westboro posted on its website prior to the event unfolding:

Glenn Beck despises God, and he proudly says so. He climbs on WBC backs to have an issue for his radio program.

God has Smacked Glenn Beck already, giving him a little child with disease, but that doesn’t even slow Beck down. He is wholly incapable of seeing the Hand of God at work in this earth, and he flatly refuses to give the Glory of God’s work, TO GOD! He worships Mr. Peanut, a god that has no power, and worse

WBC will be at Cowboys Stadium where Beck will be inside hocking his false religious system and his rebellion against God to some other rebels agianst God, and we will warn the living to flee from that place, lest you should become a partaker of Glenn Beck’s sin.

1Ti 5:22 Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other mens sins: keep thyself pure.

Image Credit: Bud Kennedy/Twitter

Westboro tweeted pictures of the picket and posted them on Twitter. Below, see some of the social media messages they sent today:

Anti Westboro Protester Cant Decide Who Is Worse: Westboro or Beck | #RestoringLove | @glennbeck

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Comments (237)

christian7653
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:22am
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PutMoreOnMyPlate
Posted on August 12, 2012 at 4:10pm
Just have a random question. Dunno if anyone will bother answering it. What good does getting married do when you’re out on the street begging for food because the dollar collapsed and you can’t get a job? What good does getting married do when your country could decide to be Muslim based tomorrow and now instead of “it’s not fair” it’s “omg I don’t want to die?” Recognize the times that we’re in and for real people, if you really loved them, truly loved them, then you would die for them and live in a cardboard box and if you did get allowed to be married you’d do it where you could. But ask yourself, is it for love or is it for spiting people who disagree with you or made fun of you. Because if you get married to do that then your marriage is fail already. Friday, August 3rd, speaks volumes of the commitment this movement has. So I’m done hearing about it and I don’t care. Famine is coming.

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Jason342
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 9:17pm
Zombies!!!

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littlebitflighty
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 6:51pm
@ yougottabekidding… hahaha! that made me laugh

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Bill Wallace
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 4:50pm
God doesn’t like liars, cheats, or thieves.

The Westboro preacher is all of them. It was why he was disbarred. A failed attorney who got booted out of the legal profession and instead opted to create his own variation of religion.

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TheLeftMadeMeRight
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 4:47pm
I would be much more nervous standing next to the WBC than GB in a thunderstorm.

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muser53
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:20pm
I really don’t get that they conflict about ‘which is worse’. She says she doesn’t agree with Glens message??? So she doesn’t agree that Restoring Love and Caring amongst all people is a BAD thing? Helping each other in our communities is a BAD thing? And these westboro clowns hate our soldiers who fought for THEIR freedom to say what they want and this is what they choose to say? Westboro promotes hates speech, and Glen promotes LOVE speech. I don’t see the conflict, unless of course you are an idiot sheep person. Westboro is teetering on an arrest record.

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illinioshoj
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:06pm
Hey Beck your finally cool like westboro (kidding)anyone who thinks protesting like a bunch of babboons in front of honorable people who gave there lives for this country and restoring love is the same should retake kindergarten!

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Mr Sanders
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 1:35pm
These people from West bourough, Christians, should remember the time the croud approached Mary Magdeline with stones in hand, a mob, with Yeshua kneeling down, writing in the dirt before him, then stood up, after listening to their arguments for stoning her, and said, “he who is without sin, cast the first stone?”

YOU BROOD OF VIPERS!! First, pull the plank from your own eye, before you reach for the speck in mine.

We are to be tested, not heaped in hot coals whilst we asked and received forgiveness, right?! If you ask, He will answer.

They [West-whatever] think someone is given a child with initial or life-long challenges all because of a life lived and redeemed…. but by their summation redeemed too late?! Fip it around you flock of ‘christians’, some people are better prepared, have been given inner strength, or have been given so, or have been given the challenges because He knows its not more than the yoke they can carry. Maybe even given a loving, guiding heart. Children are a blessing from God, no matter the challenges that comes with them.

As Christians – HOW DARE YOU!!

We are to love on all God’s creation(s), pray for our enemies and the lost that they may come around. This condemnation , in treatment, that you have for gays or lesbians is not biblical. It is biblical to not engage in such daily activities as the gentiles do but shoot for the higher.

No. You have it all wrong.

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rockymtngal
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 1:06pm
I sure as heck wouldn’t want to be a “Baptist”! These people are cruel, mean and make it a point to disrupt other people’s lives in a manner that spits in the face of God. Wish they’d take their picket signs and go to Iran where they may just be appreciated!

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trtmntdude
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 12:08pm
JZS,
Are you a homosexual Muslim? Just wondering.You talk freely about the “Christian groups that hate other groups” but I see no mention from you of the Muslim groups that hate everyone that isn’t Muslim. Oh, and if you’re a homosexual, you are to be killed according to Mohammed. Christians don’t want to kill you. they just want to keep you from getting married. But feel free to travel to, and express your homosexuality in, a Muslim nation.

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Chi-Fawn
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 10:57am
The Westboro church needed the Restoring Love meeting in a huge kind of way only they don’t know it. Wouldn’t it have served them right if any of those people had the Day of Service people helping them the day before? The protesters wouldn’t have yelled so loudly or carried signs if they liked the work the DoS people did. Sort of like how the crowd at “Restoring Honor” greeted the protesters from the Al Sharpton rally only better and more of it.

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Eastinfection
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 8:15am
if you use the word “queer” in it’s literal context as meaning “strange”, then the Westboro gang is really just a bunch of queers.

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UPSETVET
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 6:57am
Westboro Baptist Church and it’s supporters are not American Patriots nor Baptists in the Biblical and traditional sense. They are against everything good in America and are a disgrace to America and all true Baptists.

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billwhit1357
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 6:41am
I have never listened much to Beck because I am an expatriate, living in Europe, where we don’t get much American news, but from what I have seen, I like him. As far as the Westboro Loonies go, as a disabled Vet, I say, “Live your Life in such a way as to make Westboro Loonies want to Protest at your funeral!”

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- muser53
  Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:23pm
  I like that….
  
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lemonfemale
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 6:00am
Of course Phelps and Whelps would be there, Publicity is what Phelps cares about- I’m not certain if he cares about gay folk one way or another. Here in Anchorage they picketed the Pride Parade, City Hall, and Anchorage Baptist Temple. The pastor of ABT, one Reverend Jerry Prevo does as much against gay issues as one can do unarmed. However, ABT is one of our biggest churches hence Phelps decided Prevo was “soft on homosexuality”. See “Addicted to Hate” http://blank.org/addict/
for enough to turn your stomach.

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Rex Whitmer
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 1:15am
Cheney has little sense about what America wants. Had we have had another candidate for president, it’s likely that the Obama spoof would have failed. Opening primaries led to thousands if not millions of people whom had no idea of the goals of party members would not have chosen Senator McCain as our candidate. He’s a dead fish with no real spunk and stopped Palin from bringing issues that would have failed Obama. Todate, Obama is headed into the rally a mystery person after four years as president. He has no leadership skills, he’s frankly not very smart, and he has no idea of the things that have made America great. Having lived his whole life off other peoples earnings, he’s still clueless about self reliance. Palin on the other hand was and is a leader. She’s learned through the school of hard knocks what it takes to make things work. Cheyney was actually the person responsible for our fiasco in Iraq and the person whose advice lead to the break down in the American commerce system. He was in fact the guiding light to Bush in so far as the so called “bailout” was concerned. I would personally love to see Palin as Romney’s runningmate. We would then see government being run as a government should be run!!!

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eadamico70
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 11:30pm
A couple of things, first, these so-called Christian protesters are not Christians, as a Christian myself, I was never taught to hate, I was brought up w/the belief that we are all God’s children and He loves every single one of us, not matter who we are.
Second: It looks like some of the people on here are listening to too much Alex Jones maybe??? The Mormonism you speak of sounds like The FLDS (Warren Jeffs ring a bell?)
Third: Could someone tell me where the book of Titus comes from? I don’t see it in my Bible.
God Bless you all!
TEA!

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Larry E
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 11:21pm
It’s good to know from listening to the fat babe with the long curly **** that stupidity is alive and well in America. If that weren’t already obvious from seeing who was elected President in 2008….

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Words_of_the_Buddah
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 10:59pm
If these people are Christians then I’m a Buddhist.

Oh, wait a second.

1) Rampant homophobia when Jesus said nothing about gays and an argument based on code written for the Jews exiting Egypt and ONLY the Jews exiting Egypt.

2) Picking and choosing lines from a book to support their cause.

3) Using hatred even when Jesus preached love and tolerance. have people forgotten “love thy enemy?”

4) A complete and utter disrespect or disdain for people who don’t share your exact views.

Okay, so they’re Christians and I’m diffidently a Buddhist.

I’ve never been a fan of Glenn Beck. In fact, I quite dislike him and his homophobia, racism, love for corporations over people, political views, rampant paranoia, misuse of history and historical figures, failure to use creditable sources, belief that his personal faith should dictate how others should live, lying to his fans, and hatred of the 9/11 victim’s families, but at least he tries to do some good.

“You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.”
Romans 2:1

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VHVila
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 10:38pm
All of this confusion is certainly an indication of the Godless times we live in as God is not about confusion. These protesters are lost; reaching out for anything, everything, the wrong thing; and have become food for the serpent.
I pray, dear Lord, that their eyes will be opened to your light and their hearts will be softened by your loving kindness and that we who do follow you will be an example of your grace. May you receive all the glory. Amen.

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kamsinger
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 10:17pm
It was a great event, I was excited to attend, Thank you Glenn for stirring up our pride in America again. For reminding us what is right with our country and to stand up for what is right.

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PowerPC
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 10:10pm
The word hate in the bible is very often misinterpreted….the Bible states Esau I hated…….The word hate by God in the Bible means to love less. How else could you take it when the Bible also says that he who does not hate his mother and father is not worthy of me..”Jesus”…It means to LOVE LESS not literal HATE as we use today look it up promise it is there.

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dollyg55
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 9:49pm
The Church of Jesus Christ’s foundation is Christ, we love Christ he is the center of our lives. We do our best to be Christ like, we are not perfect but we do our best to follow Christ. If you want to know about “Mormons” or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, please don’t believe Ashestoashes go to http://www.lds.org or http://www.mormon.org and research for yourself. He doesn’t have a clue what he is talking about. If you believe in Christ you are a Christian…that is what it is all about.

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- eadamico70
  Posted on July 29, 2012 at 11:42pm
  I couldn’t agree with you more! I have many friends who are of different denominations, a lot of them are Catholic, we pray differently, we worship differently but we believe in the same God and believe that Jesus is our Lord and Savior. Isn’t that what counts? One of the hardest things to do is to forgive, one of the biggest lessons Jesus has taught us is to forgive. It’s something we all need to remember.
  
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tncdel
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 9:34pm
Overall I agree with Beck on most things. And even agree with Westboro Baptist on a few things. Such as burning those vile Qarans.

Islam is ORGANIZED CRIME operating under the guise of religion, and the Quran itself is AN INSTRUMENT OF CRIME. For it commands ALL Muslims [not some or a few of them] to kill, oppress and annihilate all who don’t believe as they do.

See this educational video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib9rofXQl6w

Additionally, each and every right under the Constitution is subject to restraint or forfeiture, if it conflicts with the constitutional rights of others. For example, we all have the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness under the Constitution. But if you kill your neighbor because his dog crapped on your lawn, you can lose all those rights.

So too things like the “Jim Jones kool-aid party” and what the Quran commands are NOT protected under the Constitution. Courts are required to apply the “balancing of the scales” analysis, when opposing sides in a case maintain that they have a right under the Constitution. And the judge must determine WHICH side has the greater claim to “right” under the Constitution and which side would suffer the greatest harm by allowing the opposing side to exercise the right that they claim.

To put things in perspective, YOU play the judge in the following case, then tell us your verdict:

Side A alleges it has a right to kill, oppress and annihilate anyone who refuses to be

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on July 30, 2012 at 8:10am
  before u go out & buy ur “I support WBC because they burn Korans” T-shirt, do a little research. Theyre not the Koran burners. Theyre strictly anti-gay and pro-incest.
  
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