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Happy New Year! Westboro Baptist Love Campaign Targets Christ Killers

By Dan Filler

In honor of the High Holidays, the friendly folks from Westboro Baptist Church, in Topeka, Kansas, got up off their tucheses and came to Oklahoma University for a Rosh Hashanah protest last week.  I never really thought that Rosh Hashanah was the kind of thing one protested.  My bad.  This from the OU Daily:

Members of Westboro Baptist Church forcefully protested the Rosh Hashanah holiday in front of Hillel today, while another crowd protested and shouted across the street in opposition. Shirley Phelps-Roper, leader of the Westboro protest, said the church stopped at OU as part of a love campaign across the country to protest Jews killing Christ over 2,000 years ago. She said despite the common belief that Christ?s death brings salvation, members of the Jewish community should not have killed Christ.

?These people killed our Lord, and they know it,? Phelps-Roper said. ?The hour of judgment is near and everything bad happening in the world is in part their fault for killing Christ.?

Westboro protestors held up signs reading ?God hates fags,? ?God hates Jews,?America is Doomed? and ?God hates Israel,? among other derogatory statements.

This from our friends who attend funerals of fallen Marines, toting signs like "thank God for dead soliders."

Ain't free speech grand?

Update: A reader notes that the Westboro folks weren't afraid to visit the belly of the beast.  They protested Yom Kippur in Brooklyn this weekend. 

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on September 29, 2009 (boomark / email).