The following lines are quotes from representatives or founders of Westboro Baptist Church, possibly the most disgusting fundamentalist group I have come across. I can't actually understand how people can think in this way.

Just to give you an idea of these guys' ideas, their website is called godhatesfags.com. They're well known in America for picketing the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

From "Louie Theroux's The Most Hated Family In America":

Shirley Phelps: "God hates fags, God hates fag enablers, therefore God hates America and all of her military."
Shirley: "If you see a nation or a people who have risen up with one voice to say that it's OK to be gay, you're looking at a doomed people. Those people have crossed the line. When you say "gay pride," you obviously have given over any trace or any notion that you're going to admit that you're sinning."

Steve Phelps: "She [Princess Diana] split hell wide open when she died. She's a fag enabler, and she'll be in hell for all of eternity."

Louis: "Did you rejoice yesterday when that church burned down?"
Steve: "You're supposed to rejoice over all of God's judgements."
Louis: "And do you rejoice when soldiers die in Iraq?"
Steve: "Absolutely, I do."
Louis: "And do you rejoice when people are knocked over by cars and they get cancer?"
Steve: "Absolutely, I love it. And I can tell you right now because it's the righteous judgement of God almighty."

During the filming of this programme, the WBC were filmed picketing a local appliance store because the store "sold Swedish vacuum cleaners" and the Swedish government had recently imprisoned a pastor for preaching against homosexuality.

Other incidents:
On January 15 2006, WBC members protested the memorial of 2006 Sago Mine disaster victims claiming that the mining accident was God's revenge against America for its tolerance of homosexuality. Footage of the protest, including several members dancing, was later shown on Fox News.

On May 14, 2008, two days after the deadly 2008 Sichuan earthquake, they issued a press release thanking God for the great earthquake that caused heavy loss of life in China, and "pray for many more earthquakes to kill many more thousands of impudent and ungrateful Chinese". In the article they also called Chinese people "vile oriental [sic] ingrates", and declares that "God hates China".

When leading a protest at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996, Fred Phelps, the founder of WBC, stated:
"Whatever righteous cause the Jewish victims of the 1930s-40s Nazi Holocaust had... has been drowned in sodomite semen. American taxpayers are financing this unholy monument to Jewish mendacity and greed and to filthy fag lust. Homosexuals and Jews dominated Nazi Germany.... The Jews now wander the earth despised, smitten with moral and spiritual blindness by a divine judicial stroke.... And God has smitten Jews with a certain unique madness... Jews, thus perverted, out of all proportion to their numbers energize the militant sodomite agenda... Jews are the real Nazis."

In July 2005 the Westboro Baptist Church declared its intention to picket the memorial service of Cpl. Carrie French in Boise, Idaho. French, aged 19 years old, was killed on June 5 in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, where she served as an ammunition specialist with the 116th Brigade Combat Team's 145th Support Battalion. Her death is seen by the church as divine punishment of the United States. Fred Phelps was quoted as saying, "Our attitude toward what's happening with the war is [that] the Lord is punishing this evil nation for abandoning all moral imperatives that are worth a dime."


If anyone reading this agrees with any of the above, just fuck off. I don't see how you can actually treat your fellow humans like that and still trying to take that fucking moral high ground.

Somewhere out there in the vast nothingness of space...

Somewhere far away in space and time...

Staring upward at the gleaming stars in the obsidian sky...

We're marooned on a small island, in an endless sea,

Confined to a tiny spit of sand, unable to escape.

But tonight,
On this small planet,
On Earth,

We're going to rock civilization.

If time can break us down,
And not keep us around,
I won't wait.
I won't mind,
Not this time.

I've started up the clocks,
It's time I left behind,
And everything we've lost,
Disappears.

(I'm calling, I'm calling out,
For answers on the long walk home.)
I've started up the race,
It's something I can't change,
And now we're not the same.

I'm running past the words,
To finish up the faults,
(Can't come back.)

Because I won't wait,
(Won't live like that.)
Not this time.

I've started up the clocks,
It's time I left behind,
And everything we've lost,
Disappears.

(I'm calling, I'm calling out,
For answers on the long walk home.)
I've started up the race,
It's something I can't change,
And now we're not the same.

(I'll find myself once more again.)
I've started up this race,
It's something I can't change,
Now we're not the same.
(I can't help by myself again.)