Getting in touch with my inner Nelson

[bubosquared]

So Jerry Falwell is dead. I can't find it in myself to be happy about anyone's death, even his, but I'm very glad there's now one less loud, hateful bigot who thinks I'm a subhuman being who should just die and go to hell in the world.

Having said that, the fact that Phelps is planning to picket Falwell's funeral¹ fills me with an unholy glee. Every time I think about it, I can't help but giggle. The phrase "HA-ha!" comes to mind. The only thing that could make this better is if pro-gay organisations end up counter-picketing -- after all, Phelps is picketing the funeral because of the one time Falwell exhibited a shred of actual decency (and when the man who blamed 9/11 on queers and feminists calls you a hater², that's really bad), and because he claims Falwell was a "fag-enabler", and really, taking the high road and getting to watch the entire right wingnut collective squirm and/or brainsplodey would so be the cherry on this cake. :D

¹ I'm taking this link from other blogs's context links, and assuming that page does say something about the picketing plans. Amusingly enough, it's blocked from work because of "racism, hate". For once, the content filter is sort of on my side, heh.

² I can't seem to find the exact Falwell quote after Phelps's picketing of Matthew Sheppard's funeral, so if anyone does have it, share?

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[wibbble]

Copy/pasted through my phone:

WBC will Preach at Jerry Falwell's Funeral!!

WBC will preach at the memorial service of the corpulent false prophet Jerry Falwell, who spent his entire life prophesying lies and false doctrines like "God loves everyone".

There is little doubt that Falwell split Hell wide open the instant he died. The evidence is compelling, overwhelming, and irrefragable. To wit:

1. Falwell was a true Calvinistic Baptist when he was a young preacher in Springfield, Missouri, and sold his soul to Free-Willism (Arminianism) for lucre.

2. Falwell bitterly and viciously attacked WBC because of WBC's faithful Bible preaching -- thereby committing the unpardonable sin -- otherwise known as the sin against the Holy Ghost.

3. Falwell warmly praised Christ-rejecting Jews, pedophile-condoning Catholics, money-grubbing compromisers, practicing fags like Mel White, and backsliders like Billy Graham and Robert Schuler, etc. All for lucre -- making him guilty of their sins.


Falwell is in Hell, Praise God!!

America, Cursed of God

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

(One does wonder why Phelps doesn't move elsewhere then, if America is so cursed by god. Or am I doing that logic thing again?)

[troubleinchina.livejournal.com]

I heard a rumour a bunch of drag queens were also going to picket, but I haven't seen that directly. But I'm enjoying the image. Cuz I'm PETTY.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Join the petty corner, love. The Phelps-picketing-Falwell thing has kept me amused at work ALL DAY!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

O America, never stop being batshit!

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Seriously, do you lot have, like, a breeding programme or something? Or are they genetically engineered clones of Ian Paisley?

I think i'm gonna need a lot of popcorn for the rightwing infighting that's about to ensueas a) Fred Phelps continues to be a batshit insane sociopath, and b) all the other loonies scramble to take Falwell's place in the spotlight.

Mmmmm, fundie infighting ...

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

It's all very strange to me. Not far from my house is the birthplace of William Jennings Bryan, famously loopy politician who was on the wrong side of the Scopes Monkey Trial. His house is on the grounds of one of the region's most advanced hospitals, which was named for him.

It's pretty much like that everywhere.

[i-amthecosmos.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, this feels me with wriggling glee as well. So much glee. And I would expect nothing less of that crazy clan of hateful motherfuckers.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Seriously, I really hope the Freedom Riders, or whatever they're called, the biker gang that counter-pickets Phelps at funerals? I want them to show up with (pro-)queer enforcements. Come join the moral high ground: we have an excellent view of Fred Phelp's exploding head, and you get to watch the Falwellites squirm!

(My reaction to JF's death: indifference and relief. My reaction to the circumstances and reactions: "OMG RIGHT WING FUNDIE IN-WANK BWEEEEE!" I've been in fandom too long, heh.)

[jamaisneutral.livejournal.com]

Phelps picketing Falwell's funeral?

Hi-la-rious!!!

Ah, isn't it grand when the extreme right practically hate each other more than they hate us?

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I cannot stop giggling at this. I know, that makes me an evil person. Still giggling!

(And okay, Mr Phelps? If Jerry freakin' Falwell thinks you go too far and you're a hateful lunatic? That'd be your cue to check into the nearest psych ward, son.)