I tip my hat to the students of the University of Chicago, who nicely illustrate the appropriate response to the Westboro Baptist Church: mockery. They were accompanied down the street by a group of students mocking the WBC’s message. The students held a sign reading “Figs Doom Nations� and pl...

Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church are coming to Albany!...

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling this week affirmed the Casper, Wyoming City counsels decision not to allow anti-gay pastor Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas to place an anti-gay... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]...

Kees van Helden, eat your heart out. Adam Curry, meet your match. Want jullie zijn respectievelijk een mietje en een onnozelaar vergeleken bij de Fire & Brimstone-profeten van de Westborough Baptist Church. Wel bekend van die kekke 'God hates fags' en 'Thank God for dead soldiers' protesten bij begr...

Bad news this morning for Summum, the Utah religious group famous for its mummification practices. The Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, rejected the group's arguments that the First Amendment required the city of Pleasant Grove to install a Summum monument displaying its "Seven Aphorisms" (Nu...

Fred Phelps and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper thought it'd be fun to take their gay-hating "God Hates Fags" protest show on the road and stage an event outside of Hampshire's local college production of The Laramie Project, a play about the death of Matthew Shepherd, but auth...

Usually, we ignore stories about Westboro Bapstist minister Fred Phelps and his flock of fundie bigots. There's something about a guy who claims that American soldiers are going to hell because the U.S. "supports" homosexuality that makes us think he's not worthy of any attention...

Some of you are probably scratching your head and wondering why the name Westboro Baptist Church is familiar. That’s because it’s the church associated with Fred Phelps of God Hates Fags fame. He and his fellow church members have a habit of going around picketing the funerals of militar...

Generally, we just ignore Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church since "Do Not Feed the Trolls" is as good a strategy in real life as it is on the Internets, but this musical video holiday greeting from the church is so entertaining, we had to share. It's called "Santa Claus...

For once I’m actually glad Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church people are making asses of themselves. These are the idiots that picket funerals of dead soldiers and celebrities holding the “God hates fags” signs and just generally pissing off everyone in the vicinity. Somet...