"Infamous group to protest transgender mayor"

In this 11/18/2008 news report from KOMO, KATU in Portland, Oregon reports that the infamous ("God Hates Fags") Fred Phelps and his Westboro (Kansas) Baptist Church were planning on coming to Silverton, Oregon to protest the recent election of a transgender mayor, Stu Rasmussen. (11/19/2008)

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• Transgender
• Stu_Rasmussen
• Gay
• Intolerance
• Fred_Phelps
• Westboro_Baptist_Church

[CrazySpatula]

We ran those damn protestors out of our town! Love defeats hate all the time. GO STU!!!!

[stevemallen1]

People just need to bust out some mace, and spray the crap out of those moron westboro homophobes.. it would be hilarious.

[Applesmaush]

@MaryWaterton

"God will blow up stuff like an angry 4 year old who doesn't get his way just as he did in his book of fairy tales."

Remind me again why I'm suppose to care?

[owenluvspie]

Im just glad they havnt came to massachusetts or they would have met mr.7.62

[monkeydood13]

I live there and all the high schoolers wanted to skip school and protest against the protesters and start fights but they wouldn't let us leave the school grounds like we usually can

[magog1138]

@CrazySpatula I heard the story on RadioLab! My God it was so inspirational, and I got so emotional towards the end! Your town is beautiful- If only everyone everywhere would be as caring towards one another as you were that day, there'd be no need for heaven- We'd already be there. n_n GO STU! GO THE GOOD PEOPLE OF SILVERTON, OR!

[CalifaJohn]

The mayor says they would receive the same welcome as anyone else. What would be the reaction of the town of Westboro if outsiders came to protest their community choices? Does "live and let live" make any sense to you?

[MaryWaterton]

On the Day of Judgment, God will incinerate Silverton, Oregon just as HE did Sodom & Gomorrah.

"Be not deceived, God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." (Galatians 6:7)

"The Son of Man (Jesus) shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." (Matthew 13:41-42)

[Makyui]

I know you weren't quoting the mayor. You partially-quoted the pastor and changed the meaning of his statement in the process. That's called quote-mining.

They have the right, but that still doesn't make it appropriate. You can scream obscenities at old people, but that doesn't make it appropriate.

And I said your argument was weak. Read.

[cigolone1]

I didn't quote what the mayor said.

Doesn't affect them? You can say that for anything. But EVEN if it DIDN'T affect them, they STILL have their right to protest according to law.

If you find my comments as weak, then why the hell did you reply to them?

[Makyui]

Quote-mining is a very weak argument, too.

The issue isn't that they're non-citizens. The issue is that they're non-citizens protesting a town because of an election that doesn't affect them in any way, and saying highly inflammatory things about the mayor and the town when they don't know squat about it.

Even the mayor said they're welcome to come, if they feel the need to.

If you think that's on the same level as saying, "Yeah, good for you," then you've got a screw loose.

[cigolone1]

"...inappropriate for them to come to a community they don't belong to..."

Yeah, yeah. As long as they don't like the message then they're not welcome. But if the Phelpses would come and support that mayor with sing like "God Loves that Mayor", "bless this community for electing him", then they wouldn't say a beep about it. So it's a very weak argument.