Good As You: Westboro Roundup
01/12/2010
Audio: All [gays] will earn freedom to marry? Surely, says Shirley
Awesome! Shirley Phelps-Roper just predicted that marriage equality is inevitable, with the debate at this point being "merely a formality." We tuned everything else out, so let us know if she says anything else interesting: Westboro Baptist Church - Shirley...12/31/2009
Audio: 'Poker' turned into Craps
@LadyGaga "Poker Face" parody by WBC is done! Lyrics: http://tiny.cc/LGL2 Music: sound bite LadyGaga "Poker Face" parody by Westboro Baptist Church That's not much fun, this beat is sick. So lame being decried by this disco schtick11/16/2009
Video: Phelps-ocrisy
A month ago, this writer had a spirited exchange with Westboro Baptist's Sara Phelps (who frankly I did not enjoy at all) and Jael Phelps (who's actually kind of fun, as far as Phelpses go) on the subjects of the...11/11/2009
God hates gays, yet loves calling Barack Obama a murderer?!
Is Westboro Baptist Church's newest sign actionable? We fully support this kooky clan's right to protest. Always have. But flat-out calling our sitting president a murderer? Is that not a new, unexplored line, even for the Phelpses? And doesn't it...09/05/2009
Audio: Libby-eration
We don't know how it's possible that this revelatory interview from a March episode of Kansas City's "Church of Lazlo Show" has managed to go unnoticed by this and every other LGBT media outlet for the past five months. But...08/31/2009
Video: Adam Lambert meet Madam Lambaste
You may remember Megan Phelps-Roper from her recent appearance on this site, where she "explained" why her own mother's out-of-wedlock birth wasn't worthy of expulsion because, basically, it happened before the church knew any better (riiiiiiiiiight). Now see Megan 'explain"...08/27/2009
John, Paul, George, and Lawsuit
♫Hey Westboro, don't make a parody. Your sad song is not better. We'll send you a letter if you start, And we'll sue you if you don't make it better. Hey Phelps, we're a major media company. You're homemade 'Jude'?...08/07/2009
If you wanted to be a Westboro rebel, then you should've been a Baby Boomer
Earlier this week, after reading an article about one of Westboro Baptist's young charges, Jacob Phelps, this writer sent an email to WBC doyenne Shirley Phelps-Roper to see how her family would react if one of their flock came out...07/13/2009
Audio: It's got a good beat but you can't fully retch to it
On Friday, Westboro Baptist's Shirley Phelps-Roper left some comments on this site, alerting us to some new parody songs that she and her proudly anti-gay family were working on. And while she promised us that the forthcoming "Beat It" parody...07/07/2009
Clearly they prefer Lisa Lampanelli
Good news, Don Rickles: You don't have to plan a set for your Aug. 3 show. Westboro Baptist Church has just written the jokes for you: Anti-gay, anti-Semitic, and anti-the voice of Mr. Potato Head from Toy Story. Sheesh, is...07/02/2009
They who'd picket on Uranus vs. he who walked on moon
Well you knew this one was coming: We always knew they were Jermaine fans. No word if they'll also hit up Billy Mays' memorial. Though something tells us that God was too big a fan of the Hercules Hook and...06/09/2009
Fred: The Dance Mix
05/04/2009
Video: 'The problem is all inside your head we say to them'
And now the latest from Asscraziness and Garfunkel (aka Westboro Baptist Church): Stay tuned for their highly anticipated B-side, "And here's to you, Mrs Robison, Jesus thinks you're a filthy hussy." Though personally, we think society would be much better...04/27/2009
Audio: Fred challah-ing new hate
Many have joked about it. But now the Westboro Baptist Church is quite literally saying that "God Hates Figs." Oh, except in WBC's view, "figs" doesn't mean fruit. No, no -- figs mean "Jews." And as you will hear in...04/24/2009
They very well may call AIDS 'cool.' But Kool-Aid drinking doesn't seem on WBC's agenda
Since many people are speculating that Westboro Baptist Church is about to go all Jonestown/Heaven's Gate on us, we took the liberty of writing WBC's doyenne of dastardly dogma, Shirley Phelps-Roper. This is what she has to say: So from...04/14/2009
Gee, WBC -- don't take your disdain for Peeps out on the rest of us!
Is it just us, or is Westboro Baptist starting to become unpleasant?04/10/2009
See B.S. news
SHIRLEY: Good evening and welcome to WBC News. Fred's off tonight, nursing a wicked case of self-imposed moral superiority. I'm Shirley. Our top story tonight... SHIRLEY: And now here's Margie with all your "hating gays and liberals as sport" headlines....04/02/2009
MI: Phelps-centric lawsuit gets less 'f*g hatey' plaintiff
In the past, we've expressed our apprehensions about the laws that the state and federal laws that have been used to limit Westboro Baptist Church's funeral protests. Now the ACLU of Michigan is taking those same sort of constitutional concerns...03/30/2009
But I don't eat meat. Can you make my bitch burger veggie?
Here's the latest headline from Westboro Baptist Church: "Stem Cell Supper"? Oh why must Westboro's ideas always be so embryonic? Though this does totally explain why we just saw Rachael Ray at Whole Foods asking the promiscuous cashier how well...03/20/2009
Abhor us and Natasha
We've always imagined that Westboro Baptist's version of hell looks something like Cabaret: Now they've add fuel to our suspicions: Wow, that's a disgusting lil' missive. So clearly it means that they're Marin Mazzie fans still upset about the 1998...03/03/2009
'Pompous, pretentious, self-righteous bitch queen'
You can accuse Westboro Baptist's Shirley Phelps-Roper of being lots of things. Anglophile is not one of them: Response to Jacqui Smith Sheesh -- someone has a (fish and) chip on her shoulder!02/23/2009
You're going to HelL.A.: Shirl reflects on magical Oscars night
Shirley Phelps-Roper has given this writer more info regarding her family's Oscar night protest, as well as Sean Penn's shout out to the same. Enjoy: Hi Jeremy – I love it when the dummy has to rewrite his whole speech...Audio: You connected these dots, Mat, not us!
Speaking about Sean Penn's reference to the picketers who were protesting outside of the Oscars ceremony, Mat Staver said the following today on his "Liberty Live" radio show: So who were the protestors that were on site, you ask? Well...02/12/2009
Video: It's two, two, two extremists in one!
Hey, do you ever imagine what it would be like if instead of being one man, Fred Phelps was a conjoined twin duo? And in your fantasy, does one of the twins have a comically high-pitched voice, while the other...02/06/2009
Young'uns, weaned on BS, are standing up to same
Some things really give us hope for the future. Progressives finally getting a voice and an ear in Washington, for one. Knowing that Amy Poehler's midseason sitcom is in the pipe, for another. Oh, and this: Hundreds counter Phelps' anti-gay...02/03/2009
Video: But the real question: Will Westboro picket the planet's funeral?
The world's about to end. America's excitement about having an intelligent man in office is the main indicator of our impending doom. Oh, and said intelligent man is the anti-Christ, working in unison with Satan and the Pope to dupe...02/02/2009
Westboro books Haggard in hell's hottest suite
Oprah, Larry King, "Nightline." Now even Westboro Baptist Church is getting into the Ted Haggard press maelstrom, posting the following to their official blog: God did NOT send Fag Haggard to preach, but he did it any way, so he...01/19/2009
Westboro on plane crash: Good for the goose, good for the danger
If a plane crashes and kills all aboard, then Westboro Baptist Church calls it God's wrath against America. So what is it if a plane survives a bout of extreme engine trouble? Oh, well that's still God hating us, of...01/07/2009
Preaching hell to the chief: Westboro makes Jan. 20 plans
This from The Washington Blade: ..the National Park Service has granted Fred Phelps and co. a protest permit for the inauguration. The church "will have 15 people at the northeast corner of John Marshal Park protesting military funerals and gays...01/02/2009
Video: Astounding lack of grace
Sometime hymns are presented in the most lovely of fashions, that even the most staunch atheist on the planet would surely find it moving. And then other times they are presented like this: Stay classy, Westboro. Can't wait to see...12/15/2008
Video: Westboro's early Xmas gift
Holly. Mistletoe. Various generations of Phelps children likening Santa to Satan. [::nostalgic sigh::] The holidays have officially arrived: So festive, they are! Our only wish: That they'd put out a Hanukkah song as well. Don't they know that it's politically...12/10/2008
'Don we now our anti-gay ass-craziness'
Some folks like wreaths. Other people enjoy mistletoe. But for the lil' Christmas cookies at Westboro Baptist Church, it's the following sign with which they hope to deck the halls of the Legislative Building of the Washington state legislature: And...12/04/2008
Will Prop 8 fail? Surely, says Shirley
Westboro Baptist Church's Shirley Phelps-Roper may think that we gays are hellbound perverts, but one should not lump her in with Mormon-evangelical "Protect Marriage" coalition that passed the anti-gay Proposition 8. When it comes to both the "yes on 8"...11/18/2008
The wheels on the bus go, "OMG -- this zealotry is nutty!'
Taking the bus can be annoying. For starters, they're unpredictable. The schedule if the driver's, not your own. Especially in winter's cooling temperatures, the last place most of us want to find ourselves is standing outside waiting for public transportation...
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