the incredibly anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church (headed by Fred Phelps) has threatened to picket at Heath Ledger’s funeral, just for playing gay in a movie role. i did some research on them because, frankly, they sound batshiat crazy…here’s what i found:

• seem to be a compilation of just 3 families, followers of Phelps after he was booted from his original congregation
• they can’t marry outside the church (incest, incest, incest!)
• they picket anything, twisting it to become a gay issue. they even picket the funerals of soldiers, claiming that their deaths are Gods way of punishing the US for being so gay-friendly
• the only reason they didn’t picket the Amish School shooting in 2006 was because of news radio personality/host Mike Gallagher, who offered them an hour of unrestricted air time if they didn’t go. The same happened after the Virginia Tech shootings last year (only they were given 3 hrs of airtime in exchange)
• The Westboro Baptist Church teaches that menstruation is a curse from God upon lustful women. In the group’s teachings if a woman stays ‘pure’ then she will never menstruate.

A satire website called God Hates Shrimp was created in 2004 in response to WBC’s inflammatory website. The website cites Leviticus 11:10, the same book and section that labels sodomy as an abomination, where it says “And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you”. The website argues that this means Long John Silver’s and Red Lobster restaurants should likewise be picketed by WBC.

And now the picture of the day, a random guy showing up at one of the WBC protests to mock them: