Hate Your Way to Fame, the Fred Phelps Way

http://www.godhatesfags.com

http://www.thesignsofthetimes.com (The links seem to be broken)

http://www.godhatesamerica.com

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/noise/?id=louis_theroux

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church

http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2007/04/video_the_surre.html

I think it’s easy to classify most people on a sort of number line of political philosophy.

I see it as going something like this:

Communist - Radical liberal – Liberal – Moderate liberal – Fed up with politics – Moderate conservative – Conservative – Radical conservative – Nazi

But some groups, like the Westboro Baptist Church, defy my system.

• Are they Commies? They sort of live communally with a shared back yard.
• Are they radical liberals? They’ve condemned the “wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan.
• Are they fed up with politics? They hate Kerry and Bush.
• Are they radical conservatives? They can’t stop talking about hating fags.
• Are they Nazis? They sure seem to like to vilify Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Mormons, Swedes, and every other group that isn’t them.

I can’t put them on my line, but I’m actually not too upset about that. I can see the justification behind the Nazis and the Communists, even though I don’t agree with them. These WBC people can have their own classification, way down in the footnotes.

These people are pure attention whores.

That’s it, folks. I think they just want face time. They aren’t particularly attractive or talented, so what else would get their faces and names out there in the public eye? Hating on everybody, that’s what.

Therefore, I believe the best course of action would be for us to ignore them.

What can they do? There aren’t that many of them and they’ve already intermarried. Their leader won’t allow marriages outside the church. WBC is its own destruction.

I think the only thing we as a people should do in response to the WBC is to make it a Federal offense to picket a funeral. I’m a huge proponent of the First Amendment, but I can’t for the life of see a decent reason to show up to a graveyard and annoy mourners.

Thoughts?