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heath ledger and the wonderful christian church
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
what a ing disgrace. you america.
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A US church says actor Heath Ledger is in hell because he played a gay cowboy in one of his films, and has vowed to picket his funeral.
The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), a Kansas-based congregation known for its demonstrations outside funerals for US soldiers killed in Iraq, said the Perth-born Australian actor who died yesterday was “now in hell”.
“WBC will picket this pervert’s funeral in religious protest,” the group said in a statement on its website.
“God hates the sordid, tacky bucket of slime seasoned with vomit known as Brokeback Mountain – and He hates all persons having anything to whatsoever to do with it.
“Heath Ledger is now in hell, and has begun serving his eternal sentence there.”
In a later interview, church spokeswoman Shirley Phelps-Roper said on Fox News that demonstrations would be limited to memorial services held in the US.
“He got on that big screen with a big, fat message: God is a liar and it’s OK to be gay,” Ms Phelps-Roper said.
The church, which has been classified by the Southern Poverty Law Centre as a “hate group”, also planned to demonstrate outside the upcoming Academy Awards ceremony.
Ledger, 28, was found dead in his Manhattan apartment yesterday. A post-mortem examination has been inconclusive and toxicology tests are being performed to determine what, if any, drugs were in his system when he died.
Ledger was nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of gay cowboy Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain, a role for which he was widely admired. |
i kid you not, if the funeral was being held in my city i would go along with a weapon and beat the living out of the baptists - let's see who's better at being an intolerant arsehole. |
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| Ygrene |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
what a ing disgrace. you WBC.
i kid you not, if the funeral was being held in my city i would go along with a weapon and beat the living out of the baptists - let's see who's better at being an intolerant arsehole. |
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| EvilTree |
If you take these oxygen thieves seriously...
well, do yourself a favour. Don't.
Their opinion does not matter.
Nor are they example of typical Christians |
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| bas |
You really should keep up in the Heath Ledger thread, we've all been made aware of this :p
Seriously though, it's absolutely ridiculous. The protest flyer was up on photobucket and has since been removed. |
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| Sweet Death |
If you think picketing the funeral of an actor who played a gay person sounds dumb, what they do the rest of the time is even more stupid. This church actually pickets the funerals of soliders because they died in battle for a country that allows homosexuality. I kid you not.
They aren't a real church, just a lunatic family. |
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| kdepa |
Just so you know, the Westboro Baptist Church is an extremist group in the midwest, made up of only one or two families. They've been denounced by all the other churches out there, so they're hardly representative of America, or, for that matter, the christian church here.
Oh, and everyone in America hates the WBC just as much as you do. |
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| bas |
| Two families? The entire church has 70 something members, about 60 of them are blood relatives of the head priest/founder guy :stongue: |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by bas
You really should keep up in the Heath Ledger thread, we've all been made aware of this :p |
oh, my bad! any excuse to rail against the church! :toothless |
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| mezzir |
| quote: | Originally posted by kdepa
Just so you know, the Westboro Baptist Church is an extremist group in the midwest, made up of only one or two families. They've been denounced by all the other churches out there, so they're hardly representative of America, or, for that matter, the christian church here.
Oh, and everyone in America hates the WBC just as much as you do. |
yessssss
they're bat insane. same guys who picketed iraq war vets' funerals saying that their deaths was god's way of punishing the US for loving fags so much |
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| Ygrene |
| I do believe that a judge ruled against them in a court case where they picketed a soldier's funeral....I'll try to find it. |
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| jupiterone |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
i kid you not, if the funeral was being held in my city i would go along with a weapon and beat the living out of the baptists - let's see who's better at being an intolerant arsehole. |
id help you with that.
they make Nietzsche 100% correct:
"In heaven all the interesting people are missing." |
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| Blahzaay |
| They just interviewed that dumb of a Reverend on a Perth (Heath's home town) morning radio show and abused the out of him. I was never even a fan of heath ledger really but what this guy was saying made my blood boil to the extreme... |
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