Fred was a respected civil rights lawyer, before he went bananas. |
What will the gay right pretend to be angry about next?
Maybe hegemony needs these silly demons to validate itself as the mainstream?
Set your clocks for journalist cliché o'clock: 'Hey, but maybe he was so extreme that he made homophobia increasingly unacceptabl.... *
Zzzzz....
Isn't it ironic, Alanis?
* Lost count of the articles saying Fred Phelps - ironically - did us so much so good. The pink fart machine Gay Star News has run two already.
I don't doubt that the Westboro Church will carry on, sucking in money from religious right wing lunatics that could be better spent on the poor and sick. So there is still plenty for people to get angry about.
ReplyDeleteNo-one seems to remark on the way this church indoctrinates the children unfortunate enough to be born to its adherents. Maybe that's because it just mirrors the way all churches indoctrinate children, but with slightly less hateful and fantastic beliefs.