Westboro Baptist Church plans to protest Elizabeth Taylor's funeral

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Westboro Baptist Church plans to protest Elizabeth Taylor's funeral

Larry Mcshane
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Thursday, March 24th 2011, 10:15 AM

The Westboro Baptist Church plans to picket Elizabeth Taylor's funeral - apparently over her work as an AIDS activist.
 
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The Westboro Baptist Church plans to picket Elizabeth Taylor's funeral - apparently over her work as an AIDS activist.
 
A controversial church known for picketing funerals and its hatred of homosexuality has no love for Elizabeth Taylor, either.

In typically abrasive and offensive style, Margie Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church announced plans to picket the Oscar-winning actress' funeral - apparently over her work as an AIDS activist.

"No RIP Elizabeth Taylor who spent her life in adultery and enabling proud f---," Phelps wrote via Twitter. "They cuss her in hell today. #Westboro will picket funeral!"

In another in a series of increasingly nasty posts, Phelps - daughter of church pastor Fred Phelps - described the late Hollywood icon as a "serial-adulterous f-- hag."

It's unclear how the group plans to target the funeral, since it was expected to be a private family affair.

Westboro Baptist made headlines by protesting at the funeral of a Marine killed in Iraq, waving signs that read "God Hates F---" and "America Is Doomed."

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that the demonstrations were free speech protected by the First Amendment.

Jarrett Barrios, president of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, quickly denounced the announcement.

"Fred Phelps and his vitriolic anti-gay followers are simply trying to exploit their so-called 'faith' by spreading messages of hate at a time when Americans are grieving the loss of an extraordinary woman, actress and advocate," Barrios told E! News

 

LINK TO VIDEO OF ELIZABETH TAYLOR:

http://www.nydailynews.com/video/index.html?eCode=1haDJ5Ohij8jJOnRkV5qeTMgTSGL7luj&dCode=BmZTFjMjoQrIEFOhCpXsLlTvuB3F-s7e

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Comments

Avatar tiparker119 -
#1
I would like to know if anyone will picket their funeral when one of these Westboro people die..???
Avatar joker17 -
#2
Religous freaks !
Avatar visiondude -
#3
the people who attend and front for westboro baptist "church" are an off the scale abomination of the true teachings of Jesus Christ, and in NO WAY are they an accurate representation of historical Christianity.

not even in the ballpark.

do they give Christianity a "bad name"?    yes and no.

yes ....because some people seek to use them as a "comparison" of historical Christianity in order to manufacture an excuse as to why it's "not true" (even though that methodology is a false sense of adding up what's valid and what's not), and NO.....because it's glaringly obvious to anyone with a smidgen of common sense can tell they are wack jobs
Avatar JADELottery -
#4
Time to dispense retribution of thought.

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