Westboro Baptist will picket Elizabeth Edwards' funeral

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Members of the Westboro Baptist Church announced Thursday plans to picket Saturday's funeral for Elizabeth Edwards in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Kansas-based Church - monitored by anti-hate groups such as the Anti-Defamation league and the Southern Poverty Law Center - is known for its extremist opposition to homosexuals, Jews and other groups.

The church members also oppose the War in Iraq.
According to the church's website, members will hold a protest from 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m.
Edwards, the estranged wife of presidential candidate John Edwards, died Tuesday after a six-year battle with breast cancer.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...uneral/?hpt=T2

I am not surprised.

[hooplala]

They have every right to picket. 

They're scumbags, but they have the right.

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Yes they do and yes they are.

[Precious Moments Zalgo]

Yeah.  I absolutely hate what they do, but not as much as I would hate attempts to deprive them of their right to do it.

[Suu]

On what grounds are they picketing? Just because the brass will be there and they will make asses of themselves with signs as usual?

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Because she used a fertility doctor to conceive her last two children.

[Phox]

... well, fuck. That's the last straw.

[Jenne]

Because she used a fertility doctor to conceive her last two children.

Okay.    They're not only assholes but class-A idiots.  They CLEARLY have no real agenda and have given up pretending they don't just want to be mediawhores.  Stupidest reason to picket some poor woman's funeral, evar.  Not that they need to have great ones with such a heinous act, but now they're just being lazy.

[AFK]

Well of course they are going to picket her funeral.  They're Morons.  

[Whatever]

I will be surprised if they are allowed.  The last funeral here they tried to picket, they ended up a couple of miles away from the actual cemetary before they could get to "public property".  The police kept making them move as the cemetary, funeral home and surrounding areas were privately owned. 

I really hate the WBC people.  Yes, they are within their rights and by no means do I want those rights violated, however, just because they can, doesn't mean they should. 

[BadBeast]

A proper Funeral protest, was when someone dug up Oliver Cromwell's body, and put his head on a spike outside the Houses of Parliament, where it remained for many years. 

[Nephew Twiddleton]

A proper Funeral protest, was when someone dug up Oliver Cromwell's body, and put his head on a spike outside the Houses of Parliament, where it remained for many years. 

It was a great day for both England and Ireland.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

One of the things that's truly amazing about WBC is the amount of hate directed at them. You could have a Marxist and a Libertarian joining up to shout them down. I saw one of them show up on Fox News once. They fucking hated her, and it wasn't just because of them being unpatriotic. They were getting really worked up over them.

They're abhorrent little fuckers, but as long as they remain abhorrent, at least the American public has SOME sense.

[Juana]

Indeed. IIRC, one of the more recent pickets, a bunch of people who opposed the picketing placed themselves between the WBC assholes and the funeral. Best way to deal with them, ever. Community support for the family and prevented the funeral (mostly) from being marred by their presence.

[Juana]

I hope something like that happens at Ewards's funeral - people placing themselves between the WBC people and the funeral proper. I dunno if it will, but it would be nice.