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Phelps, you *******
Alas, I didn't see anything on the news today about those rectal warts being bludgeoned to death by angry miners and families.
According to the newest press release on the group's website, the group is planning on protesting between 1:30 and 2 p.m. on Sunday, January 15. According to their schedule of pickets, they are in New York today and will be in Kansas on January 9.It has been advised not to visit the website and to avoid clicking on any banners or popups if you must visit the website.
New information has been presented from a group called Patriot Guard Riders. According to the website, www. patriotguard.org, their "main mission is to attend the funeral services of fallen American heroes as invited guests of the family." According to Chris Brocksmith, a ride captain with the group, the WBC receives their money to operate through lawsuits. "They want someone to hit them," he said. Brocksmith suggests that the community ignore them. What the Patriot Guard Riders do if requested by the family is show up at the funeral, turn their backs on the protesters, rev their motorcycles, and play loud music to drown out any sounds of the protesters.
"We are not a protest group," said Brocksmith. The group only shows up at the request of the family. Patriot Riders is very familiar with WBC, according to Brocksmith. "We know how they operate," he said. "My job is to make sure they are running out of money."
In a phone interview Friday, January 6, Shirley Phelps-Roper informed this reporter that a group of approximately 15 people will be coming to Buckhannon to picket at the memorial service on Sunday, January 15. Their website will soon be updated to reflect this, according to Phelps-Roper. The group will also be sending notices to law enforcement agencies to announce their plans, she added.
Note: This article was written late last night after receiving a tip about this release. An editorial decision was made to put it in the paper to alert the area to what to expect. The website was included in the article so that readers could better understand what this group was and what their beliefs were.
A hate group based in Topeka, Kan. released a press release on Wednesday entitled “Thank God for 12 dead miners” and promises to picket the funerals for the slain men.
The hate group, which operates as Westboro Baptist Church, runs a website.
The release states, “God is laughing, mocking and deriding hypocritical ***-infested West Virginia.”
The release also says the WBC will picket the funerals of the miners.
When reached by phone, member Shirley Phelps-Roper confirmed that 10 to 15 picketers were making plans to protest at the funerals of the West Virginia miners.
When asked why the group was planning protests at the miners’ funerals, she responded with questions of her own.
According to the press release, “They died in shame and disgrace, citizens of a cursed nation of unthankful, unholy perverts who have departed from the living God to worship on ‘Brokeback Mountain’ and who have replaced the Bible with ‘The Da Vinci Code.’”
The group has picketed at 80 funerals since June, as many as four to five a week, according to Phelps-Roper. Most of these funerals have been for soldiers.
“Our purpose is to cause America to know our abomination,” she said.
God is punishing America, according to Phelps-Roper.
“America is doomed,” she said. “We have cracked the Bible. We know.”
During the phone interview, Phelps-Roper told this reporter to read all of Malachi (an Old Testament book).
“It covers all of the issues,” she said.
Westboro Baptist Church was established by Pastor Fred Phelps in 1955 as a Primitive Baptist Church, according to the website. It engages in daily peaceful sidewalk demonstrations “opposing the homosexual lifestyle of soul-damning, nation-destroying filth.”
The WBC has conducted more than 22,000 such demonstrations since June 1991 at homosexual parades and other events, according to the website.
When informed about the expected protests, Sgt. Chris Smith, detachment commander of the Buckhannon detachment of the W.Va. State Police, said protection would be provided as needed.
Smith could not immediately say how far back the protesters would be located.
Buckhannon Police Chief Matt Gregory and Sheriff Virgil Miller could not be reached on Thursday evening as this story was developing.
Several local ministers that were present with the families were reached on Thursday evening and shared their reactions.
Rev. Mark Flynn of First United Methodist Church said, “I have met members of the families of most of the miners. I shared scripture passages with several of them. I found them to be people of faith, as are most of the residents of West Virginia.
This mine disaster was not God’s judgement on West Virginia.
“God was with those men in that mine before their deaths,” Flynn said.
Flynn quoted from Romans 8: “Not even death can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
He also commented on the group itself, saying, “For anyone who is expressing any opinion on any issue to compound the grief of these fine families is cruel and is bound to be counter-productive.”
Pastor Ed Lowther, of South Buckhannon Mission Church, commented that the verses quoted on the press release were taken out of context.
God is a compassionate God, and John 3:16 in the Bible is a testimony to that fact, according to Lowther.
The verses in the press release are “describing what they (WBC) are,” Lowther said.
“They are not talking about the God we serve,” he said.
“We need to pray for them ... they have no compassion for anyone,” Lowther added.
Rev. William Mooring of New Life Tabernacle cited the example in John 8:3-11 of the Pharisees bringing a woman accused of adultery before Jesus.
Jesus responded, “If any of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” (John 8:7, NIV)
Jesus also told the woman, “Go and sin no more.”
“We live in the age of grace,” Mooring said.
Jesus did not come to condemn. Mooring added that the miners were a “good group of hardworking West Virginia men.”
God does not bring the judgement as this group proclaims, according to Mooring.
“Judgement’s going to come (to everyone) — but not now,” he said.
New information has been presented from a group called Patriot Guard Riders. According to the website, www. patriotguard.org, their "main mission is to attend the funeral services of fallen American heroes as invited guests of the family." According to Chris Brocksmith, a ride captain with the group, the WBC receives their money to operate through lawsuits. "They want someone to hit them," he said. Brocksmith suggests that the community ignore them. What the Patriot Guard Riders do if requested by the family is show up at the funeral, turn their backs on the protesters, rev their motorcycles, and play loud music to drown out any sounds of the protesters.
"We are not a protest group," said Brocksmith. The group only shows up at the request of the family. Patriot Riders is very familiar with WBC, according to Brocksmith. "We know how they operate," he said. "My job is to make sure they are running out of money."
In a phone interview Friday, January 6, Shirley Phelps-Roper informed this reporter that a group of approximately 15 people will be coming to Buckhannon to picket at the memorial service on Sunday, January 15. Their website will soon be updated to reflect this, according to Phelps-Roper. The group will also be sending notices to law enforcement agencies to announce their plans, she added.
Note: This article was written late last night after receiving a tip about this release. An editorial decision was made to put it in the paper to alert the area to what to expect. The website was included in the article so that readers could better understand what this group was and what their beliefs were.
A hate group based in Topeka, Kan. released a press release on Wednesday entitled “Thank God for 12 dead miners” and promises to picket the funerals for the slain men.
The hate group, which operates as Westboro Baptist Church, runs a website.
The release states, “God is laughing, mocking and deriding hypocritical ***-infested West Virginia.”
The release also says the WBC will picket the funerals of the miners.
When reached by phone, member Shirley Phelps-Roper confirmed that 10 to 15 picketers were making plans to protest at the funerals of the West Virginia miners.
When asked why the group was planning protests at the miners’ funerals, she responded with questions of her own.
According to the press release, “They died in shame and disgrace, citizens of a cursed nation of unthankful, unholy perverts who have departed from the living God to worship on ‘Brokeback Mountain’ and who have replaced the Bible with ‘The Da Vinci Code.’”
The group has picketed at 80 funerals since June, as many as four to five a week, according to Phelps-Roper. Most of these funerals have been for soldiers.
“Our purpose is to cause America to know our abomination,” she said.
God is punishing America, according to Phelps-Roper.
“America is doomed,” she said. “We have cracked the Bible. We know.”
During the phone interview, Phelps-Roper told this reporter to read all of Malachi (an Old Testament book).
“It covers all of the issues,” she said.
Westboro Baptist Church was established by Pastor Fred Phelps in 1955 as a Primitive Baptist Church, according to the website. It engages in daily peaceful sidewalk demonstrations “opposing the homosexual lifestyle of soul-damning, nation-destroying filth.”
The WBC has conducted more than 22,000 such demonstrations since June 1991 at homosexual parades and other events, according to the website.
When informed about the expected protests, Sgt. Chris Smith, detachment commander of the Buckhannon detachment of the W.Va. State Police, said protection would be provided as needed.
Smith could not immediately say how far back the protesters would be located.
Buckhannon Police Chief Matt Gregory and Sheriff Virgil Miller could not be reached on Thursday evening as this story was developing.
Several local ministers that were present with the families were reached on Thursday evening and shared their reactions.
Rev. Mark Flynn of First United Methodist Church said, “I have met members of the families of most of the miners. I shared scripture passages with several of them. I found them to be people of faith, as are most of the residents of West Virginia.
This mine disaster was not God’s judgement on West Virginia.
“God was with those men in that mine before their deaths,” Flynn said.
Flynn quoted from Romans 8: “Not even death can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
He also commented on the group itself, saying, “For anyone who is expressing any opinion on any issue to compound the grief of these fine families is cruel and is bound to be counter-productive.”
Pastor Ed Lowther, of South Buckhannon Mission Church, commented that the verses quoted on the press release were taken out of context.
God is a compassionate God, and John 3:16 in the Bible is a testimony to that fact, according to Lowther.
The verses in the press release are “describing what they (WBC) are,” Lowther said.
“They are not talking about the God we serve,” he said.
“We need to pray for them ... they have no compassion for anyone,” Lowther added.
Rev. William Mooring of New Life Tabernacle cited the example in John 8:3-11 of the Pharisees bringing a woman accused of adultery before Jesus.
Jesus responded, “If any of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” (John 8:7, NIV)
Jesus also told the woman, “Go and sin no more.”
“We live in the age of grace,” Mooring said.
Jesus did not come to condemn. Mooring added that the miners were a “good group of hardworking West Virginia men.”
God does not bring the judgement as this group proclaims, according to Mooring.
“Judgement’s going to come (to everyone) — but not now,” he said.
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