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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Peter
October 6th, 2011
1:30 pm
Funny stuff…….Man makes up Religion, then uses it against people !
Very Christian !
SCY
October 6th, 2011
1:32 pm
Can’t you make these stereotypical statements about any group? This would be like saying I was a victim of a crime committed by a Hispanic man so now I avoid all Hispanics, why is it acceptable to stereotype anyone?
MJC
October 6th, 2011
1:32 pm
I love the use of the Futurama meme in the picture of the tweet.
These should be called...
October 6th, 2011
1:36 pm
IDIOTS, not Christians
Chris
October 6th, 2011
1:37 pm
Westboro is giving God no glory and are also sinning in their judgement of others.
BTW
October 6th, 2011
1:37 pm
Fred Phelps, also ran for office, as a Democrat.
MacHead
October 6th, 2011
1:39 pm
If the Phelps group had ever done a single thing to help someone rather than always demonstrating the worst of Christianity they would be worth writing about. As it is, they are just a waste of perfectly good oxygen. They can protest all they want but all they are doing is driving good people that much further away from the Church. They are basically a hate crime in motion.
Sheila
October 6th, 2011
1:47 pm
What about allowing his family to grieve in peace? Would Jesus be outside his funeral protesting? Even scripture says blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted. I think someone needs to stop these people. Wonder how they would feel if someone protests outside the funeral of the next one of their love ones to be eulogize. God loves Steve Jobs just as much as he loves all of us.
ATL Guy
October 6th, 2011
1:53 pm
If they hate Steve Jobs so much … why are they using their iPhones to Tweet messages of hate against him!?!?!? Irony at it’s Best
Atlanta Allen
October 6th, 2011
1:58 pm
Perhaps we could get Westboro a Green Energy loan guarantee from the federal government. Then they would surely go out of business and their leadership would shut up – even if congress asked them to speak.