Phelps clan to protest at Southern Baptist Convention

[racaulk]

GREENSBORO -- Anti-gay protesters, who became the focus of recently passed federal legislation for their controversial demonstrations at the funerals of soldiers, will be at the Greensboro Coliseum next week to picket the unveiling of a statue of the Rev. Billy Graham at the Southern Baptist Convention.

"I told him we were going to picket his funeral when he dies, and he's not a well man," said the Rev. Fred Phelps, of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan. Like Graham, Phelps attended Bob Jones University and was ordained by the Southern Baptist Convention, which expects to draw upward of 10,000 people to its annual meeting here on Tuesday and Wednesday.

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That won't keep him from the coliseum. Phelps plans to gather twice on Lee Street, a busy road that runs past the coliseum, and has already notified local police.

"I think he and his church members would be better off to stay home," said the Rev. David Horton, immediate past president of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina and pastor of Gate City Baptist Church in Greensboro. "I don't understand them. I looked up some information about them last night on the Internet and I was absolutely shocked about what I found. They believe...that they are the only ones who are going to heaven."


Link: http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060609/NEWSREC0101/606090306

Personally, I say let them tear each other apart! :popcorn:

[msongs]

1. ha ha ha the baptists are so phony here -

the baptists hate gays. the baptists belive they are the only ones going to heaven sheesh. phelps and the baptists share the same family values. i was raised in the southern baptist church. been there done that.

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[racaulk]

3. Me too.

I grew up in the Southern Baptist church in North Carolina. And I'm gay.

I'm now a "recovering Southern Baptist."

:)

[yellowcanine]

2. They believe...that they are the only ones who are going to heaven."

I don't know why the good rev would be so shocked at that. Jerry Fatwa pretty much believes the same thing does he not?

[1620rock]

4. Somebody needs to take a lead pipe to Phelps and his band...

...of interbred morans. :puke:

[gator_in_Ontario]

5. That old geezer

should talk about "people not looking well." Who's gonna protest at his funeral I wonder?

[Vogon_Glory]

6. Correction: Who Is Going To CELEBRATE at His Funeral? n/t