I’m from Topeka, home of Westboro. One year, the protested my high school band concert
You are so right. Even in my home town, they are a small nuisance compared Trump. Part of that has to do with the patriarch of the cult dying in 2014, but part of it is absolutely because Trump is crazier and more nonsensical than they are. And that’s saying something.
Didn’t Fred try to admit that he was wrong in doing all the shit that he did on his deathbed trying to get right with God ? whatever fuck that pussy. Caused untold suffering to how many fucking people and then he wants to fucking apologize on his dead bed what a fucking coward.
Memories hazy but if memory serves the family clan sort of split in half because of him doing that. Shirley is still doing it. But I know Kevin for sure got one her kids out and I think even helped her financially with a safe place to stay. Yea red state is a good flick.
Hello, neighbor to the south. I remember Kevin Smith managed to get one of Shirley’s daughters out of the cult and I think the other daughter left as well
Megan and Grace Phelps-Roper did leave in 2012. Megan I has taken on a more prominent role in activism since leaving.
I don’t know if Kevin Smith is the reason she left, but they did frequently debate on Twitter while she was still with the church. He made a movie, Red State (2011) which upset the church so they got into it a lot online and when he toured the area.
After she left the church, he was very supportive of it. I know he interviewed on a podcast a few times, but I haven’t heard those.
I really hope someone in thigh-high striped socks takes one for the team and makes out with someone in front of the Westboro protesters in Kansas. I also really hope someone builds a Unitarian Universalist church near the site of the Westboro church.
Anything that could have been legally done to troll and harass them has already been done through the years. There used to be a sub dedicated to trolling them on reddit way back in the day. Back when reddit was used for good and not supporting fascists
The wbc has seen every funny, clever, disgusting, and even abhorrent trolling attempt you could possibly imagine. Someone literally bought the house across the street from them years ago and painted it in the colors of the pride flag. Ultimately the church/family is run by lawyers so they would also catalog the more troubling stuff like death threats too. Before the modern era culture wars they were a group that essentially everyone hated. They’re a hardcore Baptist denomination preaching hate so that alienates your leftists and libs, generally, and they took the attitude of “dead soldiers are gods punishment for America allowing lgbt stuff, 9/11 was a gift from god, etc” which alienated the overwhelming majority of the conservative crowd too so they got hate from every angle.
The proper thing to do is continue to let them fade into obscurity. The best thing that ever happened to them was the lawsuits about freedom of speech and the continued media coverage related to their ridiculous messaging. They weren’t stupid either; they recognized 99.99% of the people watching them on cnn or whatever would write them off as extremist kooks. But if 10 million people watch that interview? That 0.01% leave 1,000 potential new members to the flock, with those numbers. And this is where the growth was seen: peak membership was in the era preceding Phelps death, and its waned since. The brainwashed family members are primarily what you see in the time preceding and after (though not exclusively, some people who joined stayed and some family have broken free).
As always, the best way to deal with a troll is ignoring and certainly not giving said troll media exposure to an audience of millions to help them recruit.
I’m from Topeka, home of Westboro. One year, the protested my high school band concert
You are so right. Even in my home town, they are a small nuisance compared Trump. Part of that has to do with the patriarch of the cult dying in 2014, but part of it is absolutely because Trump is crazier and more nonsensical than they are. And that’s saying something.
Didn’t Fred try to admit that he was wrong in doing all the shit that he did on his deathbed trying to get right with God ? whatever fuck that pussy. Caused untold suffering to how many fucking people and then he wants to fucking apologize on his dead bed what a fucking coward.
I have never heard rumors of him repenting in anyway. I think it’s safe to say, he’s burning in hell if you believe in that.
Memories hazy but if memory serves the family clan sort of split in half because of him doing that. Shirley is still doing it. But I know Kevin for sure got one her kids out and I think even helped her financially with a safe place to stay. Yea red state is a good flick.
Ya Shirley is a fucking psychopath. She has been the most vocal one of them all for a long time.
There’s a lot of stuff they do that most people don’t even know about.
Back when schools still used fax machines, they would send real heinous stuff pretty much every day. They were harassing children.
They were always protesting somewhere in Topeka. As a kid, my parents always told us not to look at them.
I don’t hear much about them now, I don’t live there anymore but I have a lot of family there. I don’t even see WBC out protesting when I visit.
Hello, neighbor to the south. I remember Kevin Smith managed to get one of Shirley’s daughters out of the cult and I think the other daughter left as well
(°▽°)/ Howdy!
Megan and Grace Phelps-Roper did leave in 2012. Megan I has taken on a more prominent role in activism since leaving.
I don’t know if Kevin Smith is the reason she left, but they did frequently debate on Twitter while she was still with the church. He made a movie, Red State (2011) which upset the church so they got into it a lot online and when he toured the area.
After she left the church, he was very supportive of it. I know he interviewed on a podcast a few times, but I haven’t heard those.
I really hope someone in thigh-high striped socks takes one for the team and makes out with someone in front of the Westboro protesters in Kansas. I also really hope someone builds a Unitarian Universalist church near the site of the Westboro church.
Anything that could have been legally done to troll and harass them has already been done through the years. There used to be a sub dedicated to trolling them on reddit way back in the day. Back when reddit was used for good and not supporting fascists
Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters troll them every time that band plays Kansas City.
The wbc has seen every funny, clever, disgusting, and even abhorrent trolling attempt you could possibly imagine. Someone literally bought the house across the street from them years ago and painted it in the colors of the pride flag. Ultimately the church/family is run by lawyers so they would also catalog the more troubling stuff like death threats too. Before the modern era culture wars they were a group that essentially everyone hated. They’re a hardcore Baptist denomination preaching hate so that alienates your leftists and libs, generally, and they took the attitude of “dead soldiers are gods punishment for America allowing lgbt stuff, 9/11 was a gift from god, etc” which alienated the overwhelming majority of the conservative crowd too so they got hate from every angle.
The proper thing to do is continue to let them fade into obscurity. The best thing that ever happened to them was the lawsuits about freedom of speech and the continued media coverage related to their ridiculous messaging. They weren’t stupid either; they recognized 99.99% of the people watching them on cnn or whatever would write them off as extremist kooks. But if 10 million people watch that interview? That 0.01% leave 1,000 potential new members to the flock, with those numbers. And this is where the growth was seen: peak membership was in the era preceding Phelps death, and its waned since. The brainwashed family members are primarily what you see in the time preceding and after (though not exclusively, some people who joined stayed and some family have broken free).
As always, the best way to deal with a troll is ignoring and certainly not giving said troll media exposure to an audience of millions to help them recruit.