I just came to the conclusion that Reverend Henry Kane and Fred Phelps are the same person!!!

Rev Henry Kane:


Rev. Fred Phelps

How come one of the "bad guys" is wearing a white hat? That's not right!

cuz he's a cowboy!!!!

I gots a hot idea. Let's gather together and have a little protest gathering in front of the Phelps family church.
Um, it's going to be winter soon, so we have a good 5 months to put this together.

Annah, let's really piss 'em off. You up to leading some hybrid Christian/Wiccan service?

Quote from: Michelle. on October 18, 2011, 04:48:52 PM
I gots a hot idea. Let's gather together and have a little protest gathering in front of the Phelps family church.
Um, it's going to be winter soon, so we have a good 5 months to put this together.

Annah, let's really piss 'em off. You up to leading some hybrid Christian/Wiccan service?

lol

Michael Moore beat ya to the punch tho. He drove a big pink RV in front of his church and cute gay guys where cut off jeans were flirting and carrying on in front of Fred.

Here's a snippet:

Michael Moore some 20 years younger and 100lbs  less of him ago.

Phelps. I actually have a soft spot for the guy. Who else can bring together such disparate groups of people?
Feel free to cue up some of his anti-soldier funeral protests.

Quote from: Michelle. on October 18, 2011, 10:39:02 PM
Who else can bring together such disparate groups of people?
Feel free to cue up some of his anti-soldier funeral protests.

Well, it's pretty easy when 80% of the church is related to him! Plus, hate is like moths to a fire. People just love to find a reason to hate!

I was thinking more of the counter- protesters. There's images somewhere on the net of hard-core bikers and flaming' gay guys linked arm in arm to protect the dignity of a service mans funeral.

I've seen real cowboys.  Fred wouldn't last 1 round with a real cowboy (I'm not talking the Dallas Urban-Cowboy type that drives a pickup and lives his whole life thinking he needs to prove he's a man by fighting and drinking and being a bigot - I'm talking the people that actually, you know, raise cows).

Fred is just a bigotted and bitter manipulator (his goal is to get Americans to pay his salary by either suing a city when they violate his 1st amendment rights or getting punched by a counter-protester and then suing the city for not protecting him when they knew he was at risk of attack).   That's how he gets his money to drive around protesting funerals.  Counter protests just give him publicity and increase the chances he'll have of a successful lawsuit (the exception to this is the counter protests that take place at funerals at the request of the deceased person's family - that serves a very vital purpose of providing support when people most need it).

I also agree that few people can bring people together like Phelps.  I've seen the most unlikely of pairings thanks to him. He shows people what is wrong with bigotry, and does it in a much more clear way than the "moderate" people who seem respectable to too many people - the people who are actually dangerous (you know, the "hate the sin, love the sinner, see me smile about how caring I am" types).