Westboro Baptist Church Covers Lady Gaga
Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church, famous for protesting at the funerals of Matthew Shepard, Heath Ledger, and soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, has released its first ever pop music single,...
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God Hates Twitter
Kansas’s Westboro Baptist Church has become famous for holding no-holds-barred protests at funerals and places of worship. But just because you believe that modern America is a hell-bound bastion of...
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Hate-Filled Westboro Baptist Church Gets Out-Protested in West Virginia Coal...
Timothy B. Hurst writes on ecopolitology: Never missing a chance to hide behind their children and trot them around carrying signs with hate-filled messages to display for the cameras, members of the...
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Westboro Baptist Church Protests At Comic Con: ‘God Hates Nerds’
I have got to get one of those “God Hates Nerds” signs for the front door of my fraternity house. One of the new arrivals at this year’s Comic-Con is Kansas’s Westboro Baptist Church. The group arrived...
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U.S. Supreme Court Takes On Westboro Baptist Church Hate Case
Jess Bravin reviews the upcoming docket of the U.S. Supreme Court, starting with a case relating to the Westboro Baptist Church, infamous for its “God Hates” placards, for the Wall Street Journal: Free...
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Community Action Stops Westboro Baptist Protest
Whatever a person may feel about the politics surrounding the multiple issues involved, lessons can be taken from the small community that found a way to beat Fred Phelps at his own game, legally and...
View ArticleThe Westboro Baptist Church’s Christmas Carol
An update of ‘Santa Claus Is Coming To Town’ titled ‘Santa Will Take You To Hell,’ this is sure to earn a place in the modern believer’s seasonal songbook. Actually, it’s nice to see a Christian group...
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Anonymous: It’s A Trap! (From the Westboro Baptist Church)
Ms. Smith writes on Network World: According to Anonymous, Westboro Baptist Church was behind the Open Letter allegedly from Anonymous, and then added fuel to the flames with WBC’s “Bring it” reply....
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U.S. Supreme Court Rules ‘Hurtful Speech’ of Westboro Baptist Church is...
Warren Richey writes in the Christian Science Monitor: Supreme Court Justice Alito is the lone dissenter in the 8-to-1 ruling on free-speech principles, saying the conduct of the Westboro Baptist...
View ArticleLiving Inside The Westboro Baptist Church
Wondering what it would be like to live in a cult? British documentarian Louis Theroux spent several days in the Kansas homes of members of the Westboro Baptist Church and filmed the experience for the...
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9-Year Old Counter-Protests Westboro Baptist Church With ‘God Hates No One’ Sign
This kid is a genius. Mark Memmott reports on NPR: Patty Akrouche says she’s “never been prouder” of her 9-year-old son, Josef Miles, than she was this past weekend. As Akrouche wrote on her Facebook...
View ArticleAnonymous Versus Westboro Baptist Church
A worthy target of Anonymous’s ire, methinks. Via BetaBeat: The Westboro Baptist Church, widely reviled for its homophobic beliefs and protests of veteran funerals, announced on Saturday that it would...
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Fox News: Westboro Baptist Church a ‘Left-Wing Cult’
Pointing out Fox News’ editorial bias is as easy as shooting fish in a barrel, and almost not worth noting anymore. Still, examples like this do an excellent job of illustrating the “news” network’s...
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Thirty-Five Times Westboro Baptist Church Lost Badly
Apparently God loves epic lulz. Check out this round-up of 35 hilarious and moving rebuttals to the hate-filled shenanigans of Westboro Baptist Church. My favorite sign of the bunch is carried by the...
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Power Of CERN Collider To Be Doubled, May Reveal Extra Dimensions
Are we ready for a hint of the eleven-dimensional world? Via Reuters: “When this refit is completed,” CERN scientist Marc Goulette says, gesturing across the gigantic Large Hadron Collider (LHC), “we...
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Gitmo Prisoners Stage Violent Rebellion
The unrest at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (a/k/a Gitmo) that has seen brutal force feeding of hunger strikers exploded this weekend as detainees staged a rebellion armed with broomsticks and...
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So Ray Kurzweil Wants To Live Forever…
Ok, so Ray Kurzweil is a man of above average intelligence and achievement, even if he only just got his first job (Google, of course), but is a desire to live forever a wise choice or foolish hubris?...
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An Open Letter to TED
Ken Jordan, Publisher & Editorial Director, Evolver/Reality Sandwich, has written an open letter to TED’s Chris Anderson in an attempt to get the TED organization to stop squirming around for a...
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Christian Fundamentalism’s War on Higher Mathematics
I’ll be the first to admit that my math skills are rudimentary. I’d go so far as to say they’re borderline non-existent. To quote that famous plastic scholar Barbie, “Math is tough!” If you can do...
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60,000-Ton Underwater Pyramid Detected Beneath Sea Of Galilee
Deep sea diving teams will be dispatched to attempt to decode the meaning of the monolith, Live Science reports: A giant “monumental” stone structure discovered beneath the waters of the Sea of...
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