There Are Far More Depravities than Have Been Written about in Your Good Books
Westboro Baptist Church was founded by Fred Phelps in Topeka, Kan., in 1955. The church — unaffiliated with any mainstream Baptist organization — has always "preached against all forms of sin," as its Web site says. Church members began demonstrating against homosexuality 15 years ago. According to Phelps's daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper, Westboro believes that America is damned to eternal punishment because the country is accepting of homosexuality and other "sins of the flesh."
. . . Westboro gained notoriety when members held an anti-gay rally outside the funeral of Matthew Shepard, who was brutally murdered in 1998 in Wyoming due to his sexual preference. Westboro later attempted to get a plaque commemorating Shepard's "entry into hell" erected in a Wyoming park.
The church of about 100 members is made up primarily of Phelps's supposed family. Westboro directs most of its preaching against homosexuality and America's acceptance of gays, whom Phelps-Roper calls "the bottom rung on the depravity chain."
"Bottom rung of the depravity chain"?! Oh, please. Either, you know nothing about homosexuality or you know nothing about depravity.
Straight men in my state pay to have horses anally pleasure them while their buddies watch and film the act -- and we don't have laws against it. That is but one example of the hetero depravity you're discounting here.
Really, it's all that I need, but if it makes my point more emphatic, use your Internet connection to look up a Cincinnati Steamer. I'll wait.
The point is, anything that you can define as uniquely in the provenance of homosexuality, is going to land middle to upper rung on the Depravity Chain. Tops.
Thank god. I'd hate to think there was some funky pleasure out there that I couldn't take part in because I was born Straight.
I prefer to be limited by my low threshold for pain and my overly developed gag reflex, instead.
posted by Biff Loman at 10:10 PM
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Phelps is a freak of the highest order. He might even have eclipsed Jerry Falwell, and that's difficult to do. I used to think that Phelps was simply acting a part, but the more I read about him the more I'm convinced he's simply a miserable hateful hideous creature with so little going for him that the only way he can get his shrivled rocks off is to make others feel pain.
In my humble opinion. people that claim to strictly follow the teachings of the Bible are scary creatures that should be avoided at all costs.
It's the hypocrisy of it that drives me nuts. Most of these people who use religion as the source of their bigotry are using selected fragments of the text to base their hatred on and totally ignoring others. Forget that the overall theme is Love and that all relationships with our fellow man and woman are suppose to be a reflection of His love toward us. Focus on the scads and minutiae found in Numbers and Deuteronomy. No person in the modern age can live up to those archaic teachings. Which isn't the point. The point is that they hate others and they are too cowardly to do it openly, preferring instead to hide behind the holy skirts of their Bibles.
Fuckers.
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