The Westboro Baptist Church is stirring up controversy again, this time threatening to picket the memorial services for firefighters who lost their lives in last week’s fertilizer plant explosion in the town of West, Texas. Without specifically naming the WBC, McLennon Country Sheriff Parnell McNamara addressed rumors of protests, saying the following: “We’ve been made […]
After hearing that Westboro Baptist Church planned to protest in front of their concert in Kansas City, rock band the Foo Fighters hit back with their own counter-protest- riding through the city on a pickup truck blasting Rick Astley’s Rick Roll anthem “Never Gonna Give You Up”, on Friday, August 21, 2015 Drummer Taylor Hawkins […]
McLennon Country Sheriff Parnell McNamara has had enough of talk by the Westboro Baptist Church and issued the following blanket warning earlier today to anyone threatening to picket the funeral services for victims of the West, Texas, explosion: “We’ve been made aware that there could be individuals or groups who plan to picket or protest […]
UPDATE: Earlier we incorrectly reported this as a hacked page, when if fact, as the article states below, it was a fake page. The hacktivist group Anonymous has created a fake Westboro Baptist Church Facebook fan page in retaliation for their efforts to disrupt funerals services of soldiers, victims of mass shootings and the like. The About […]
The Westboro Baptist Church has launched a media blitz on its Twitter account posting a series of inflammatory photos blaming yesterday’s bombing on gays. They also launched a series of Tweets first announcing their plans to picket the funerals of the victims of Monday’s bombings in Boston and blaming the attack on everything from God’s […]