OKLAHOMA: Westboro Church Gets Tires Slashed, Locals Refuse To Perform Repair
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2010/11/15 19:34:26
OKLAHOMA: Westboro Church Gets Tires Slashed, Locals Refuse To Perform Repairs
Members of Westboro Baptist Church returned to their minivan to find its tires slashed after their picket of the funeral of a McAlester, Oklahoma soldier. And every shop in town refused to make any repairs.
As their minivan slowly hobbled away on two flat tires, with a McAlester police car following behind, the protesters were unable to find anyone in town who would repair their vehicle, according to police. The minivan finally pulled over several blocks away in a shopping center parking lot, where AAA was called. A flatbed service truck arrived and loaded up the minivan. Assistant Police Chief Darrell Miller said the minivan was taken to Walmart for repairs. Even before the protesters discovered their damaged tires, they faced off with a massive crowd of jeering and taunting counterprotesters at Third Street and Washington Avenue, two blocks from the First Baptist Church, where the soldier's funeral was held. Miller estimated that crowd to number nearly 1,000 people, and they not only drowned out the Westboro protesters with jeers, but with raucous chants of "USA, USA." A few motorcyclists interspersed among the crowd also revved up their engines to muffle the protests.
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Disko Pickle 2010/11/15 19:36:27
+17This is more evidence of the anti-Christian bigotry that exists in this country. Thanks for the info.
I think she´s wearing light clothing.
"The Patriot Guard Riders got its start in Kansas in 2005 with the American Legion Riders, a motorcycle group composed of bike-riding members from the American Legion, an organization of veterans who served in wartime. The riders organized to counteract protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church, or WBC, of Topeka, Kan.
The WBC, which believes that God is killing soldiers to punish America for condoning homosexuality, is led by the Rev. Fred Phelps. Church membership consists almost entirely of members of the Phelps family. The church is not affiliated with the mainstream Baptist church.
The church lists on its Web site military funerals at which it plans to protest. Church members arrive at funerals, carrying placards that carry messages like "God blew up the troops."
The efforts by the American Legion Riders to shield grieving family members from protesters quickly grew, and a separate group, Patriot Guard Riders, was formed in October 2005. Today, the PGR has chapters in all 50 states.
The PGR has a twofold mission: to attend veterans' funerals to show respect for America's fallen heroes and their families, and also to provide a nonviolent barrier between protesters and family members at military funerals...
"The Patriot Guard Riders got its start in Kansas in 2005 with the American Legion Riders, a motorcycle group composed of bike-riding members from the American Legion, an organization of veterans who served in wartime. The riders organized to counteract protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church, or WBC, of Topeka, Kan.
The WBC, which believes that God is killing soldiers to punish America for condoning homosexuality, is led by the Rev. Fred Phelps. Church membership consists almost entirely of members of the Phelps family. The church is not affiliated with the mainstream Baptist church.
The church lists on its Web site military funerals at which it plans to protest. Church members arrive at funerals, carrying placards that carry messages like "God blew up the troops."
The efforts by the American Legion Riders to shield grieving family members from protesters quickly grew, and a separate group, Patriot Guard Riders, was formed in October 2005. Today, the PGR has chapters in all 50 states.
The PGR has a twofold mission: to attend veterans' funerals to show respect for America's fallen heroes and their families, and also to provide a nonviolent barrier between protesters and family members at military funerals."
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/p....
"McALESTER - Members of a Kansas church that protests at military funerals may have found themselves in the wrong town Saturday.
Shortly after finishing their protest at the funeral of Army Sgt. Jason James McCluskey of McAlester, a half-dozen protesters from Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., headed to their minivan, only to discover that its front and rear passenger-side tires had been slashed."
"More than two dozen law-enforcement officers - state troopers, sheriff's deputies and city police - formed a security cordon around the Westboro protesters.
"We're here to protect everyone," Miller said.
Westboro members picket military funerals across the country, spreading their message that "God hates America" because it tolerates homosexuality."
Tulsa World article, if you want to read it complete, you're going to have to look it up as when I post the link it doesn't work.
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People like this, make real Christians look bad!
I think the Westboro is a cult of somekind. If you love God and Christ you would not have hatred in your heart.. If they consider themselves Christians than they are a disgrace. If my Church preached hatred I would leave it.
Kudos to the motorcyclists that drown them out. It is good to know that the good in ppl's hearts outweighs the hatred.
What the church represents and has their children involved with is reprehensible. They represent the worst of religious zealots. Keep your religion behind closed doors that is where it belong. When it steps into public it steps on other people's rights to stay with what they believe.