Westboro Babtist Church Crazies Get Conned – Comic Conned

The loons of the Kansas cult called the Westboro Baptist Church (you know the folks, the Fred Phelps clan that pickets soldiers' funerals claiming the soldiers were punished by god for America's leniency toward gays?) went to San Diego to protest the annual Comic Con convention. Of course.

But may the Lords of Kobol bless the science fiction and comics fans at the event, who staged a grand counter-protest. According to this report on Comics Alliance, the SF/comics crowd included many people dressed in genre costumes, and they chanted "'WHAT DO WE WANT?' 'GAY SEX!' 'WHEN DO WE WANT IT?' 'NOW!' while brandishing ironic (and some sincere) signs."

Go read the report; the photos are priceless, and they confirm in me the belief that SF/comics folks will one day save this planet!

Video of Anti-Semitic Protest by Fred Phelps' Clan

I finally wrangled the video from my Nexus One to YouTube. Video above. It's short, and not great quality, but then again, so is Westboro Baptist Church.

Ugh.

So Now Fred Phelps Is Protesting Jews and Gays

We all know that the "Rev." Fred Phelps and the members of his family-based cult, the Westboro Baptist Church, are a bunch of ultra-conservative anti-gay crackpots. They are the folks who protested the funerals of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, arguing that the soldiers died because God was punishing America for its homosexuals. They also have held protests at the funerals of gay men, with signs declaring "God hates fags."

So, we knew they hated gays. But now they've been going after Jewish organizations, accusing them of being pro-gay. Today, they're in San Francisco with their little band of airheads, protesting outside such organizations as the Contemporary Jewish Museum (see photo below), Hillel at Stanford, a production of Fiddler on the Roof, and more.

I made a short video of the folks at the CJM protest, and I'll post it later today after I fix some upload problems with YouTube. In the meantime, you can get some background on this strange clan here.

The Phelpsies were very much outnumbered by the counter-protestors outside the museum, just as they tend to be everywhere they go. That's the good news. The really bad news? The Phelps clan was young.

UPDATE: Finally got the video. See it here.