Hate Filled Westboro Zombies Coming to My Old Neighborhood

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Today is one of those days when I’m especially proud to be an atheist. You see I grew up St. Louis County, Missouri, and when my daughter sent me this story I knew I had to publish it. You see, when the despicable Fred Phelps and his gang of hate-zombies carry on their protests in places where I have no connections it just makes me angry. When he brings the horror that is him and his Christian deity to a town I know quite well it infuriates me.

Clayton is the government center of St. Louis County and I have a lot of friends who live and work there, as well as family that lives close. Now it’s personal.

Unfortunately, even when it’s close to home, there’s little anyone can do about this pus-filled infection as it wages war against good and decent people with impunity, thanks to the SCOTUS. We can only hope the local police, many of whom I know, will make certain the Westboro Baptists are relegated to a vacant lot far removed from the public eye. Too bad shooting is out of the question. Once again I’m glad I’m an Atheist.

Here’s the well written and properly expressed story:

Suppurating asshole Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church plan to bring their piquant blend of ignorance, religious hate and general dicketry to Clayton High School for a 30-minute protest on Monday, February 6, according to this batshit-crazy flier posted on his website.

The group plans to picket from 7:50 to 8:20 a.m. because — hold on while I jam my head up my ass so as to properly quote from the press release — “We will give your children the chance to see what truth looks like, the face of what they were entitled to have from every adult that ever touched their lives! You brutish teachers and hateful parents have broken the moral compass of this generation, teaching rebellion with everything you say and do.”

Christ, what an asshole.

What did CHS do to receive such an honor?

Presumably, this is a retaliatory visit. Back in March 2011 the CHS Equality Club brought Nathan Phelps, the estranged son of WBC’s chief asshole, Fred Phelps, to speak to students and parents about growing up Phelps. Nathan Phelps’ address is available on YouTube in five sections, and it’s an interesting one. Phelps discusses his father’s ideas on child rearing (if you guessed it involves lots of Bibles and physical discipline, you’re correct), the insular beliefs of the sect (they’re not about conversion because they’re the only ones who are “saved”) and the total strength of the congregation (about 60 people, most of ’em with the last name Phelps). It’s an interesting, informative and frank discussion about how adhering to blind hatred eventually makes you blind to everything that actually makes life worth living. You can see why that asshole Fred Phelps would hate it.

Story by Paul Friswold writing for the Riverfront Times (RFT). Tip of the hat to Mary Christine Watson.

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