Not only does God hate fags, he also hates the Foo Fighters – according to Fred Phelps and his extended family of haters, otherwise known as the Westboro Baptist Church.* Placards in hand, they recently turned up to picket a Foo Fighters’ gig in Kansas, on the grounds that the band were teaching ‘fornication, adultery, idolatry, and fags’. In response, the Foo fighters took to the back of a pick-up truck and serenaded the Phelps crew with a song extolling the virtues of gay sex and hot man-muffins (whatever those might be). You can read more here.
*Has no connections with the Baptist Church.
What are Fred Phelps and the WBC afraid of anyhow? Rainbows? Unicorns? A flaming pink queer apocalypse? I attempted to address this with a portrait of the good reverend on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/03/fred-phelps-and-westboro-baptist-church.html Drop in and let me know what you think!
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