Phelps protesters get screams, jeers at Marine's funeral.

[AngryOldDem]

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/02/02/ddn020208funeralprotestweb.html

<<VANDALIA — Members of a fundamentalist Kansas church who protest at military funerals out of their professed belief that the Iraq war is God's punishment for American tolerance of homosexuality were outnumbered by counter-protesters and police at a Marine soldier's funeral Saturday.

The protesters, escorted away by police as counter-protesters waving American flags screamed and jeered at them, stayed about an hour and departed just before the funeral's 10 a.m. start. There were no arrests, Vandalia police Lt. Harry Busse said.

At one point, an Army soldier in military fatigues angrily approached the protesters and called out something to them before police intercepted him and turned him back, without incident. The man, Army Staff Sgt. Bobby Brite, 40, of Dearborn, Mich., said he and a companion soldier had driven from Detroit to pay their respects to Lauterbach. Investigators believe that Lauterbach, of Vandalia, was killed by a fellow Marine who remains at large.

"That's just offensive," Brite said of the Westboro Baptist protest. "If you want to protest, protest at the White House, not at a funeral.">>

Amen, brother; amen.

Only four of these chickenshit bastards made the trip out from Kansas.

[Fed_Up_Grammy]

1. Despicable. They are all crazed nuts !

[rzemanfl]

2. Crazed nuts is okay. But I've learned that calling them religious

nuts offends people here at DU. Despicable is very polite of you.

[Contrary1]

3. They had to spread their hate thin today...

The Fred Phelps Freak Show also turned up today at the funerals of Gordon B. Hinckley in Salt Lake City,
Army Staff Sgt. Robert J. Miller in Orlando, FL, and Spc. Jon M. Schoolcraft III in Wapakoneta, OH.

[qnr]

9. They were also supposed to be here in Corpus Christi, in response to

the recent deaths of three sailors in the crash of a Sea Dragon helicopter. I'm uploading photos of the counter-protest right now (the flickr link in my sig, if you want to see any ... only about 1/8th done at the moment). ... hmmm, just iin case sigs are turned off: http://www.flickr.com/photos/qnr

[Contrary1]

13. Wow! You've got some great pics there.

:yourock:

[qnr]

14. Thanks - they might even be finished uploading by the time I wake up

in the morning :rofl: :hi:

[muntrv]

4. Draft the Westboro Baptist Church into Iraq.

:evilgrin:

[Raine]

5. Last Spring they came to my city

here in Los Angeles County to protest at the memorial for a young soldier that was killed. The police had to hold the crowd back from attacking them. I couldn't believe they dared show themselves here in LA but I guess they like attention where they can get it. It's the lowest of the lowest to protest a funeral and if there is a hell they will surely find themselves there. :grr:

[Skittles]

6. I don't understand why they don't get their asses royally kicked

do they have some kind of police protection?

[proud patriot]

7. well Skittles They haven't been In my neck of the woods

it would surely tempt my husband .

He is a Libra and would weigh the options ..

I wonder if he would find a felony worth
beating the crap out of them.

:think:

[Skittles]

8. they MUST be getting protection of some sort

my bet is they put the word out so the cops show up too, to keep them and the counter protesters apart? I mean, what they do is so indecent.

[AngryOldDem]

15. That could have easily happened....

...which is why I think the Phelps "horde" chose to leave before the service started. There were a lot of veterans and veterans' support groups there -- some of which looked like they would have taken NO SHIT from anybody -- and I think they caught on to the lay of the land early and left, under police escort.

Gratifyingly, the electronic media here gave them 0 seconds of coverage last night. They just aren't worth it, but I have to admit the degree and depth of such abominable, unfathomable hatred is, in and of itself, fascinating -- how do such minds work? Part of me does not want to know.

[SeattleGirl]

10. Those asshats are a stain upon the earth.

I hope their self-righteousness sends them straight to hell.

[ordinaryaveragegirl]

11. Phelps sucks.

Speaking as a Kansan, he's an embarrassment to our state. His breed of hate has no rightful place on this planet.

[sutz12]

12. Good....it's about time someone got back up in those assholes' faces.

AFAIC, anybody from Westboro "Church" deserves to be heckled and intimidated, and I wouldn't mind much if violence was done to them. They are a bunch of fucking losers IMO.