Church tweets protest of Steve Jobs funeral via iPhone
After the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, the #iSad hashtag is trending on Twitter.
Westboro Baptist Church, a group that has forsaken human decency in the name of headlines, announced Wednesday night, in a tweet sent via #iPhone, a planned protest of the iPhone creator’s funeral.
Perhaps an #iRony hashtag would be appropriate?
Why protest Jobs?
Religious leader Margie J. Phelps, in responding to an Associated Press headline on Twitter concerning Jobs’ death, said the group would picket the funeral because Jobs had “a huge platform; gave God no glory and taught sin.”
Phelps, a lawyer and daughter of Westboro’s founder, Fred Phelps Sr., argued successfully before the Supreme Court that the thankfully tiny church had the First Amendment right to stage anti-gay and anti-war protests at the funerals of celebrities and U.S. soldiers.
Westboro’s leaders have been here before. In 2010 the group picketed Twitter’s offices in San Francisco. They tweeted about it, of course.
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richie
October 6th, 2011
12:32 pm
oh the irony
Ruth McVeigh
October 6th, 2011
12:43 pm
Gee – wonder why I no longer go to church! There are no “Christians” to be found there.
SBC Pastor
October 6th, 2011
1:02 pm
I wish this crowd would quit using the terms “Baptist” and “Church” in their names as they are neither of these things.
Rob
October 6th, 2011
1:03 pm
I assure you…these folks do not represent the true beliefs of Christianity.
Ellen
October 6th, 2011
1:14 pm
Ghandi said, “I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ.”
Braves #17 Fan
October 6th, 2011
1:14 pm
This group wimped out of appearing at an event in Woodstock earlier this year. Ignore them. Ruth, I know what you mean, but not all churches are like that.
Chuck
October 6th, 2011
1:16 pm
Please, SBC Pastor, tell me how they are different. Having grown up in an SBC church and left, I really don’t see how the Westboro brand of intolerance differs that much from the intolerance taught inside the church I grew up in. The Westboro folks are just more public about it.
TEW
October 6th, 2011
1:21 pm
They are such a sad and pathetic group of individuals. And we wonder why so many people are turned off by Christianity and really religion in general. GOD WILL JUDGE Mr. Jobs just like HE will judge the rest of us.
ATL Guy
October 6th, 2011
1:25 pm
Just another way for them to stay in the Media (hence the article written about them again). Just like in L.A. … bad publicity still makes you relevant, compelling, and unfortunately mainstream
ME
October 6th, 2011
1:29 pm
Screw ‘em –