I don't believe this shit.

Let me paint a picture for you. Friday, November 21st, 2008. Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. Beginning at 02:45 pm Eastern, the Westboro Baptist Church will be picketing. Where? A funeral? Not quite. They'll be picketing a high school. That's right. These morons are going to picket a public high school, and why? Because the school is going to be putting on a production of The Laramie Project, a play telling the story of Matthew Shepard, a gay man who was brutally tortured and killed in Laramie, Wyoming ten years ago.

Keep two things in mind, here. One, this is the tenth protest of thirty that Fred Phelps and his sheep have planned for the rest of 2008. I'm not even going to count next year, because their first scheduled protest is January 20th. Guess where. I may actually watch the inauguration now. I want to see a glimpse of them getting arrested on live TV.

Two, this is a group that has been publicly banned from Canada. Yes, I typed that correctly. Members of the Westboro Baptist Church are currently prohibited from entering the country of Canada, and they're going to follow up the protest of Grosse Pointe South with two protests at the Canadian Consulate in Detroit.

As a matter of fact, I think there's only one thing that WBC and I agree upon: a dislike of Sarah Palin.

Let's see...some interesting quotes from their webpage, specifically the one listing their picket schedule...

"God hates you, and you're going to hell"
"God hates Mexico"
"God hates Canada"
"George Carlin is in hell" (Well, duh.)
"God hates Congo"
"Queen Elizabeth is a whore!" (Sadly, I am not making this up.)
"Muslims are pedophile freaks!" (Seriously. How are these idiots still alive?)

Also, apparently they're going to picket places in Washington, D.C. tomorrow, just because they're there. Although, on the subject of Washington...looking at their picket brief for the inauguration, they apparently were so busy calling President-elect Obama a heathen that either they forgot he was black, or they just don't care.

At least that's something.

Also, in a pathetically obvious occurrence of irony, they refer to their picketing as a "Love Crusade".

And the thing about the high school protest. The students of the school are apparently actually motivated by these idiots. And the principal said they're not going to stop them. I hope they don't. It'll be funny to see protesters get beaten with their own signs. (And I have a feeling that that's what will happen.)

I apologize in advance if I'm a little more emotional and biased than I usually am. It's just that Westboro kind of hits a nerve. I don't mind that they believe what they do, in fact, I encourage it, because it will likely cause less reactionary Christians to question their religion, which is exactly what they should be doing in the first place. What I mind is that they choose to share their beliefs in a hateful way. It bothers me that someone could hold so much hate for, well...everything.

I believe I heard it put that WBC is the live-action version of 4chan. After thinking on that for a few days, I'm inclined to agree. And 4chan is a terrible, terrible thing for humanity. They're completely necessary, but they're designed to hate. The difference is 4chan is a place where each and every one of us can let the evil and the hate out of ourselves in complete and utter anonymity. Westboro? They live their hate, and it will destroy them in the end.

But I've gone on too long for this. Until the next time.