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Next Westboro Publicity Stunt: Picketing Elizabeth Taylor’s Funeral

The Westboro Baptist Church became a nationally despised organization when it began picketing the funerals of fallen American soldiers. Since then, the group has expanded its extreme anti-homosexual protest circuit to include events which garner even more media attention. The group’s latest stunt was announced Wednesday via Twitter messages to various media outlets just hours after Hollywood screen legend Elizabeth Taylor died of congestive heart failure.

Next Westboro Publicity Stunt: Picketing Elizabeth Taylors Funeral

TMZ reports:

Those horrible, intolerant, heartless gay-haters at the Westboro Baptist Church are preparing to spread their evil message at Elizabeth Taylor’s funeral … a higher power tells TMZ

Margie Phelps — daughter of WBC Pastor Fred Phelps — took to Twitter today to announce the church is going to picket non-lesbian Liz’s funeral … all because Liz was apparently some sort of gay “enabler” and (God forbid) an AIDS activist.

Liz will likely be buried in Los Angeles — where there are positively no gay people.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Westboro’s First Amendment rights to assemble and peaceably protest, no matter how blatantly obnoxious.

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  • USACommoner
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:43am

    Methinks they doth protest too much…maybe someone in their ranks is a self-hating homosexual, so they must project that hate outwards. I’m thinking some counseling might be in order…

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  • rightwingheroes
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:15am

    If they were real Christian Americans then they would protest Socialist and Communist rallies that seem to be taking place every other day now that King Obama, the merciful, is in power.

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  • rightwingheroes
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:14am

    What the lefties on the SC do not understand is there is a fine line between free speech and what WBC is doing which is harassment, threats, intimidation and hate speech just to name a few. That, to me is not free speech. It is a hate crime. WBC ought to be arrested.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:10am

    I’d like to know if these westboro freaks take suggestions for there protests? I have a few,protest at an ms13 or bloods cripps or any street gang funeral you can think of. Put the protest on ppv you’d make a killing.

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  • Marine Recon Dad
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:09am

    Hey, guys… I actually think this is a GOOD thing! What I mean is this – these nuts will actually be picketing in the Liberals back yard. Now let us see how they react to it happening to them! Wow…. can’t wait to see the reaction now!

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  • neke
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:56am

    I assigned to stand at a funeral for a local Marine who was killed in combat in Iraq a few years ago as these morons picketed. We kept them far enough away that they had little impact on the services. Their message is corrupt and sick, if the media didn‘t give them the attention I believe they’d go away. They make they’re living off of the media, suing and harassing people who try to stop them. What is truly sad is the kids they have with them filling their minds with this poison. In my opinion they are no different than the KKK groups who from time to time show up with their “rallies”.

    I’ve been assigned to the KKK rallies before too, both groups Westboro and the KKK can recite the bible better than most anyone I know. But they twist the meaning to justify their view/politics while claiming to be Christians, these people are anything but Christian. They are nothing more than a scam and use these protest to fund their family.

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  • old guy in SC
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:46am

    I hope the Patriot Guard Riders are there. After all, didn’t Malcolm Forbes give Ms. Taylor a purple Sportster? Ride on. Doc

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    • ProgressiveLiberalMarine
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:53am

      One of my Drill Instructors was in the Patriot Guard, he used to talk SO much crap about those people. I never saw more hatred in his eyes than when he mentioned having to go to a funeral against those people.

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  • LoneStarGigger
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:02am

    If you put some thought into it Westboro’s message is more akin to Islam then anything else.

    These are eleven nutcase’s that crave attention. Mostly all from the same family. Ignore them, give them absolutely zero publicity and they’ll fade away. You play right into their hands when you show them on TV or photo’s of them. They are waiting for the day someone knocks the hell out of them. Then they can our misplaced judicial system against them. Not sure how much more weird this country can get, but I think we’re fixing to find out.

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  • florida123
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:00am

    These Christian Imposters need to be completely ignored, the more the press puts the camera on them the worse they get! Stop the 15 min of fame MEDIA and these evil zealots will go away!

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  • Ross
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:53am

    We should set up some military LRAD’s (Long Range Acoustic Device) at the fulerals. Direct them toward the protesters. Maybe we should take donations and purchase some for the Patriot Guard.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Range_Acoustic_Device

    Thank you Patriot Guard

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  • NeonLeon3
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:43am

    This doesn’t have anything to do with God … Gays … or soldiers. It’s a money making scam by these low life freaks. They want trouble so they can sue … they want attention. Thank GOD for the Patriot Guard!

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  • farmerpat42
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:41am

    I love how TMZ focuses so much on the ‘anti-gay’ part of Westboro, when much of their platform is anti-war as well (hence the protesting military funerals). But that would akin them too much to the hippies.

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    • txbigfoot
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 7:53am

      you really dont see their message do you.

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    • CaptGregg
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 11:01am

      Their message is ENTIRELY anti-gay. They maintain that the country enables gays, so, by their twisted logic, a soldier is guilty of promoting the gay lifestyle.
      I predict that one day some unstable individual will start shooting at these fools.

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  • texas_gal
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:31am

    I guess we will see how Hollywood liberals like it when these freaks invaded their space!

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    • Cherynn
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:27pm

      The WBC is a liberal organisation. Thier Leader…mr phelps ran for office as a democrat. They hold fund raisers for the left. The head of this “church” is buddies with al gore. WBC is democrats, look into them and find out. They do make Christians look like the taliban though, forcing thier beliefs on others.

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  • texas_gal
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:27am

    WHO is funding these fruitcakes?? Soros?

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    • ProgressiveLiberalMarine
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:39am

      Really?!

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    • mykef2
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:47am

      YOU ARE! The WBC is not a church but a law firm. All of the adults are lawyers. They make a pretty decent living suing the city, state and Federal governments for Civil Right violations. Of course, they precipitate the violations, but when a cop tells them to move back beyond the specified limit, or a city tries to refuse their permit, or one of them gets punched in the nose, they sue the government for violating their freedom of speech or for failing to protect them from an angry mob.

      And under Civil Rights law the Federal government picks up the tab under a provision intended to ensure that real victims of civil rights violations can get a lawyer and have their cases heard in spite of poverty. The ACLU also makes use of it.

      So after every incident, they figure out how their rights might have been violated and sue. Even if they lose the case, their billing hours are paid for by your tax dollars. It is the perfect legal scam.

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    • sleazyhippo
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:03am

      Remember churches are tax exempt – their income goes the full mile. Their property is as protected as an Oil Company. .

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    • ProgressiveLiberalMarine
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:40am

      Churches should have to pay taxes, too many people use that as a loophole.

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    • Marine Recon Dad
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 11:05am

      @Progressiveliberalmarine
      First off, churches that violate the tax-exempt guidelines and delve into the political arena WILL lose their status.
      Second, the Westboro group is NOT a church, Christian or otherwise. They receive upwards of $250,000.00 per year from Liberal organisation for the sole purpose of doing what they do.

      I am a member of a Baptist church, and any Christian knows you hate the sin, not the sinner….

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  • FactOrFiction
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 6:26am

    These people are unbelievable. Their cultist leader obviously never preaches about Jesus and forgiveness…or else they’d be praying for people rather than spewing hatred everywhere.

    Westboro, God doesn‘t listen to you’re prayers for death and destruction. If there’s bitterness, unforgiveness, and hatred in your heart than He won’t even forgive sin. Guess they don’t teach that at Westboro either…

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  • End The Fed
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 4:52am

    How ’bout a few thousand gay people protest their church every time they meet for their round of hell, fire, and brimstone.

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  • wash1776
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 3:11am

    The right to free speech is used for all kinds of inexcusable crap. I don’t care what the law says. It needs to be changed so that people cannot disrupt things such as funerals. This is not a Christian church. It is a bunch of Satinists disguised as Christians. This is the kind of crap that gives religion a bad name. The people in that church should all walk around with pitchforks in their hands.

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  • colonial10
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 2:08am

    These people have no honor. They are out judging people who they don’t even know. They will be judged with their own actions.

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    • drbage
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:50am

      When I see pictures of this group doing their thing, I always focus on the young children holding some of the signs. Do they even know what the sign means? What are those children going to be like when they grow up? Clinton and Reno invaded the WACO compound partially over their lifestyle using the typical progressive mantra of “for the children.” Yet the O and Holder do nothing about this group and neither of them can say that the Westboro group is their people. Where are the conservative and mainstream Baptists on this? Is it not hypocritical to bemoan the inaction of moderate Muslims vis a vis radicalism, yet keep the silence of the lambs with Westboro?

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:50am

    you know, Westboro picketing THE ELIZABETH TAYLOR just might get something done by the uberwealthy pro-**** obama-Left AGAINST Westboro. finally. or not. oh. wait, chances are where it is an anti-American gay pride parade will spring up to take the pace of the usual funeral protectors: the pro-American Patriot Guard.

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  • Shaqfuey
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:41am

    I wish The Blaze didn’t even give them any publicity for this garbage. They are losers. If they’re ignored by the press, their “importance” will wane. The press constantly gives them the only thing they want – their hateful, ridiculous signs on television.

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    • sleazyhippo
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:12am

      The Blaze is a Business – and this article inflames the readers, who then are more valued by advertisers. Its also interesting that any really “non tax paying-socio-****-hate“ articles also attract more of those ”free-rider” comment posters who have self interested links to sell things – but do not pay the Blaze. I support capitalists and tax payers make this country great.

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  • alshere
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:40am

    Honestly, there only a handful of these idiots. There has to be a cold blooded citizen out there with all together to much time on his hands.

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    • Oil_Robb
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:59am

      I know its insencitive….BUT….I bet it keeps “DONT ASK DONT TELL” in the military..what **** in his right mind will come out of the closet now, knowing that if he gets shot his funeral will be pickited.

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  • Deaner
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:39am

    I bet the old lady holding the “ your going to hell ” sign get’s there first.

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    • akelso
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:29am

      I think you are correct sir. I spoke to them with several letters, and even my mother, who is a minister, spoke to them by email. Their reply’s, although a little softer, were still filled with their obsession that everyone else is going to Hell that doesn’t tote the exact line, and prompted to look at similar videos and messages filled with their same hyper-religious rhetoric. The bible spoke about being overly ‘religious’, using religion as a simple vessel to promote themselves, wanting the limelight. If they were true Christians, they would not done things like, ‘borrow’ an Ozzy song for one of their rants. One cannot judge the soul of another, as that is a big No-No in the good Book, but we can judge their despicable actions and take peaceful actions to thwart them…like simply forming a human wall a few people thick around wherever they go. Don’t say anything other than “Your action are reprehensible, and we are simply here for those morning today.” – And NO cameras. That is what they also desire.

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  • CHEWYRUNTS
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:21am

    Evil evil people. It is just not human to treat others the way they do at funerals. I’ll be damned if I see a member protest a funeral with me present without me showing them where they can stick their signs….

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  • jbl8199
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:20am

    “Liz will probably be buried in Los Angeles – where there are positively no gay people.” LMFAO!!!!!!!! Anyway, I’m sick of this group. They claim to be Christians, but they spread nothing but hate. They need to start reading their Bibles a little more often because they’re no Christians.

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    • jbl8199
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 1:51am

      Sorry, “probably” should have been “likely”. Typo.

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    • sleazyhippo
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 10:02am

      Good point – Westboro members exercising their rights – Reminds me of some of the chronic haters who post on the Blaze. I love them all.

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    • GODSAMERICA
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 11:40am

      @jbl8199
      You are right. “gay” people will have more chance of getting into Heaven than these phony christians at Westboro could ever hope to get to, even though according to the Bible gay people have no chance at all of getting there.

      @sleazyhippo
      You are right as well. There are a number of those liberal wacko who hate a free America hang around on this site and spew their hatred of things that are good and true. Like the Westboro bunch, they are only concerned with trying to bring down this nation and make it into a nation that would be a blight on the earth, luckily those liberal wackos will never succeed because in the end goodness, honesty, truth and the American Way WILL win out against all those kind of haters.

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  • Robert-CA
    Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:56am

    Thank you Supreme Court for letting these pervert incest loons go on with their hateful picketing .
    Oh & thank you Supreme Court for legalizing the killing of babies .

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    • walkwithme1966
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 3:02am

      Is there any news tonight that is not totally insane – this group is insane!! When are we going to restore sanity in this country? http://wp.me/pYLB7-MH

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 3:21am

      This group defines insanity and uncrhistian like behaviour; no one is won over by such activities that are based on hate and no compassion or sympathy for those in need or succor.

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:39am

      I still say the Supreme Court was wrong. Mourners have as much right to peacefully assemble as Westboro has to protest. They can do it in a non-intrusive manner without infringing on the rights of the mourners. Your right to swing your fist stops at the end of my nose. That’s just CommonSense, Texas style.

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:41am

      Oh, I don’t know…having Phelps & Co. protesting at Ms. Taylor’s funeral could be kinda interesting in the long run. I mean, really, as the article pointed out, there are absolutely NO gays at ALL in L.A. (LOL!) And this Twitter from Phelp’s daughter comes in plenty of time for the word to go out.

      As for protesting at funerals, well, they show their lack of class. The Russians have a word for it, “nieculturnay” (rough English spelling). I like the word “dreck” myself.

      Anyway, Ms. Taylor was a strong advocate for AIDS research, particularly after her friend, Rock Hudson, died. So I hope that GLAAD and all the other associated groups turn out in full force. And I hope the news crews capture every second.

      This may actually be the time that Phelp’s and company bit off more than they could chew.

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    • Navyveteran
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:43am

      Robert-CA
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:56am
      Thank you Supreme Court for letting these pervert incest loons go on with their hateful picketing .
      Oh & thank you Supreme Court for legalizing the killing of babies .

      _______________________________________________

      On the 1st Amendment the SCOTUS has no choice but to allow these people to do this. They are excercising free speech, the right to assembly peacefully, and their religious beliefs. They have every right whether you agree or disagree of what they say. I despise their message but I will defend them to the death for them to do what they do. To protect everyone’s rights you must protect the rights of even the people you disagree with. You allow one group not to have their rights you open the floodgates of every and any group the government or the people doesn’t like at that moment of time.

      However, on abortion that should be up to the individual states to vote on constitutionally, however, I could argue that because abortion deprives the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to the unborn. We are also punishing the child for the sins of the father in cases of rape and incest. No where in our code of justice is the children responsible for any crime their parents commit, unless we talking about abortion and then we give the children the death penalty. A penalty none the less that progressives despise and protest against when the state executes convicted prisoners of heinous crimes.

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    • sleazyhippo
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:55am

      Oh and thank you supreme court for the Blaze.

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    • Rapunzel
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 11:02am

      @Joeseph – in regard to ‘they cannot profess to be Christians and live that lifestyle’. I am a Bible-believing Christian. I believe Genesis is historical and lays the foundation for all of Christian theology.

      However I think Christians forget that while homosexuality is sin, so is fornication, divorce, adultery and many other acts that we seem to be more tolerant of (or for those who are picky about grammar, acts of which we seem to be more tolerant).

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    • GODSAMERICA
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 11:18am

      Yes, the Supreme Court has said that anyone has the right to speak anything they say without any regard to the other person’s rights. I am waiting to see someone start yelling fire in a crowded theater or something like that, according to their ruling they have that right without fear of reprisal. Way to go supreme court.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 11:31am

      I believe that they’re all atheist and protesting to make religion look bad.

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    • paperpushermj
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 11:36am

      Let them come to Los Angeles.

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    • jackrorabbit
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:09pm

      These people really need to read the Bible about removing the plank, before pointing out the speck. WWJD, He would ask this crowd, “let he who is without sin cast the first stone”, since they are all sinners, along with the rest of us, they should put down their signs and all go home and learn some humility.

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    • Rightsofman
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:41pm

      Desecrating a fallen soldier‘s funeral is one thing but don’t mess with a movie star’s funeral or your asking for real trouble. Now you’ll be messing with Hollywood!!!

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    • deho
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 2:23pm

      U.S. Code, Title 4, Chap. 1, Sec. 8. Respect for flag
      (a) The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except
      as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or
      property.
      ….
      (d) The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or
      drapery.

      This idiot is doing both of these violations of the code. She is in danger.
      The people have no taste, and no respect for anything, or anyone.

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    • sawhorse1950
      Posted on March 24, 2011 at 9:43pm

      Yeah, these despicable scumbags..they don’t deserve any press. I wish a house would land on them.

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