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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David Shivers
October 12th, 2011
1:59 pm
Margie Phelps is the daughter of Fred Phelps. I guess in their case mental illness is hereditary.
MichelleP12
October 12th, 2011
7:48 pm
Maybe those people just want an “audience” and as long as the media give it to them, they’re happy. As Christians (I am Catholic), we are supposed to pray for others, especially those who hate us, or are hateful (and these people do make it difficult, don’t they?). Maybe they’re the test of life.
Pray for them; leave them in God’s hands; and go on. But cut out the media attention. Hopefully they will retreat back into their little church box and pray for others and “go about doing good” as Christ did. God have mercy on them.
Paul
October 12th, 2011
10:41 pm
Will it never end? Ask old man Phelps what he was busy doing with the boys from 1967 – 1975 at the McFarland Reststop in I-80 outside Topeka KS, having relations with the boys. More than J Edgar Hoover, Ted Haggart and the like, this Fred Phelps is the most egregious case of “he that doth protest too much” is likely guilty of the very thing. Yes, old man Phelps is gay, sadly, and his self-loathing has infected his entire clan.
Just a Thought
October 13th, 2011
8:59 am
I know I’m late to the party, here, having just heard about this a couple days ago – ignorance IS bliss sometimes.
Margie Phelps is quoted elsewhere as saying something about God created the iPhone for what she was doing – the organizing of the protest of the immediate creator’s funeral . . . shouldn’t that make Steve Jobs an instrument of God?
I wonder, too, when God called the Westboro folks up and said to them that he was passing along his supreme right to judge humanity to them. I would love to hear THAT iPhone conversation. Last I heard, God was still in charge and HE was the one we’d be answering to in the end.
Just wish they’d crawl back under the rock from which they came. Hard not to judge someone who preaches so much hatred.
smjohnston
October 13th, 2011
9:18 am
oh Lord not these people. they are a hot mess! and u know what they say the loudest protesters are usually the freakiest ones!
randall Jewell
October 13th, 2011
9:02 pm
This is not a church, so the comments against ever “going to church” are without merit. I belong to a fairly conservative church. They would NEVER protest any funeral, gay, straight, military, computer geeks, etc. They feel God is the one who judges the heart. The Westboro Baptist Cult should be silenced one way or another. I am all for freedom of speech. But this is hate speech, encouraging people to become violent. I wish I knew what to do.
Irene Tollison
October 16th, 2011
3:58 am
In Many for tennis!
Long Helvik
October 25th, 2011
10:20 am
Good information