By Samuel Warde on December 28, 2014
Bill de Blasio, Mayor de Blasio, NYPD, Police, Protests, WBC
Activism, Controversy, Human Interest, Videos, Weird News
I would like to begin by noting that while I would not ever call myself “pro-police,” I am certainly not anti-police. That being said, I am disgusted by this weekend’s spectacle by officers at the funeral of slain NYPD officer Rafael Ramos. We have written a lot about the Westboro Baptist Church since the creation […]
By Samuel Warde on September 9, 2014
Westboro Baptist Church
LGBT Issues
NBC Reports that new billboard with the message “Gods Loves Gays” debuted Monday in Topeka, Kansas, the home city of the Westboro Baptist Church. “The Facebook God,” a satirical Facebook page with more than 1.7 million “likes,” raised more than $80,000 on the crowd-funding platform Indiegogo in order to mount the billboard. “This hate group […]
By Kimberley Johnson on April 18, 2014
Fox News
Fox News, Religion, Videos
The wacky hosts at FOX “News” love their pretend wars on religious holidays. And why shouldn’t they? Fake wars are ratings boosters and a great way to keep the uniformed viewers of Fox “News” shielded from reality. It seems like we were just dealing with the War on Christmas yesterday and now we have the […]
By Samuel Warde on April 6, 2014
Activism, Videos, Westboro Baptist Church
Activism, Religion, Right Wing Hatred, Videos
Oklahoma’s KFOR News Channel 4 is reporting that hundreds of local residents showed up in the rain to counter-protest the Westboro Baptist church, who claimed to have stages seven other protests throughout Texas today according to their website, quickly chasing them away. Member of the WBC met an elementary school in Moore, Oklahoma, but were […]
By Samuel Warde on March 22, 2014
Russell Brand, Videos, Westboro Baptist Church
Entertainment
Comedian Russell Brand speculates that Fred Phelps, along with other members of the Westboro Baptist Church, are all secretly gay. Brand goes on to suggest that people should attend his funeral and act very respectful. The clip is part of an ongoing series of videos published by Brand on his YouTube page, in which he […]