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The Westboro Baptist bigots brought their special brand of hate to game three of the NBA Finals on Sunday to protest the league’s policy against gay slurs.
Members of the Topeka, Kan.-based church, demonstrated outside American Airlines Center in Dallas, displaying their familiar “God hates fags” posters, along with others that included NBA Commissioner David Stern’s photo.
KDAF-TVWestboro member Steve Drain
“Now David Stern, the tyrant commissioner of the NBA is jamming a message down the throat of America that not only is it okay to be gay but you don’t even want to use the word gay in a negative connotation,” said Steve Drain with the church.
“God hates fags. God hates fag enablers. Therefore God hates David Stern and the NBA.”
The demonstrators didn’t get much support from the fans, who seem puzzled by Westboro’s lack of “constructive things to do,” and mostly pitied the children who appeared forced to participate in the spectacle.
Watch a news report here from KDAF-TV:
The Westboro church, led by founder Fred Phelps, is not affiliated with the Baptist denomination or any other Baptist church. According to news reports, almost all of its members — fewer than 100 — are related to Phelps by either by blood or marriage.
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lol o
ok then
i hate the westboro baptist church. someone should beat them up.
lets hold a protest against WBC breathing our air!!!
Not funny @steph. No violence for us, no violence for anyone. Regardless of how bigoted a group and/or person is.
I would say something to make them look ridiculous
But…
Um…
… really? they have NOTHING better to do then fight pro-slurs?
if they protest my uncle’s military funeral, i WILL freak out.
These people need to get a life. Seriously.
I love how fantastic religious people can be… O.o “We are loving and caring, join us!!! EXCEPT FOR GAYS, TRANSGENDERS, HUMANS, …” Bleh… Fuck you religion… really…
the only way we can get rid of them is banning the westboro form news papers, online articles, tv. lets pretend they dont exist. lets all get together so the media dont acknowledge them. the true is that they’ll never stop doing what they’re doing, hate to admit it…but its true. they feed off our feelings towards them. The Media Needs To Stop Giving Them The Attention They Don’t Deserve.
they will find a “logical” reason for them to protest anything.. its getting so far fetched now NO ONE should take them seriously anymore
Basketball is obv one of the many tools of the devil.
@tatianna and jessica- yes!!
People should have thrown food and drinks at them.
Annnd the WBC gets some nice juicy free advertisement…thanks guys…
wow these people really need to get a life..
I just need to say that not all christians are like this… I’m a christian and I fully support gay rights. These are just a bunch of crazy hateful people.
Good point, we should not use violence. But, what we should do is make it illegal for them to buy posterboards. That’ll teach em.
Exactly what cindy said. Theres a huge difference between christians such as myself, and “christians” who spread hate and intolerance. WBC just needs to be forgotten about. They merely seek media attention to spread their hate speech and cruelty.
They’ll never learn. God will punish them for their actions, not the LGBT community’s actions. Same for the straight allies.
well if the WBC is protesting then the NBA must be doing something right!
U mad bro? Lol Fred Phelps wasn’t held enough as a child that’s GOTTA explain the sharp stick he’s had stuck up his ass for the past 60 years
What really kills me about the inbred morons of the WBC is that the cowards use their own children as human shields. I saw it firshand when the yellow-bellied idiots came to Ft Bragg a few years ago.
So incredibly sad…
I’m sure God loves hate…yup, that makes total sense…