{"id":11364,"date":"2007-09-12T15:39:31","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T22:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/09\/12\/sen-craig-vs-rev-phelps-fight.html"},"modified":"2007-09-12T15:39:31","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T22:39:31","slug":"sen_craig_vs_rev_phelps_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/12\/sen_craig_vs_rev_phelps_f.html","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Craig vs. Rev. Phelps — FIGHT!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow.  About the only thing that could make me actually do anything in support of Sen. Larry Craig is word that he’s being  picketed by Fred Phelps<\/a> and his gang of Topekan Hate-Lunatics from the Westboro Baptist Church.<\/p>\n

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In a press release dated Aug. 28, Westboro Baptist Church, located in Topeka, Kansas, exhorted followers to “Thank God for revealing a bit of truth about Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho; and, by a logical extension, about the United States Congress.”<\/p>\n

“[…] Every member of Congress is either a fag or a fag-enabler,” he continued in the release. “God Almighty has now drawn back the curtain of hypocrisy and lies for all the world to see how fags and fag-enablers run the government at every level–starting at the top.”<\/p>\n

Phelps believes that Craig\u2019s purported sexuality was no secret to voters, the press or other legislators. The church would picket Senator Craig\u2019s offices in Boise and in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 10 and Sept. 11, respectively, “in religious protest and warning” with the message that, “God Hates Fags! & Fag-Enablers! Ergo, God hates Sen. Craig, and ldaho, and America.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Meanwhile, Craig’s attorneys have filed paperwork<\/a> to contest his guilty plea (which he entered a month and a half after the bahtroom incident).  GOP leaders have stopped openly urging him to resign, realizing that they acted with, ah, unseemly haste (esp., as Les<\/a> points out, “the way he\u2019s been treated by his fellow Republicans is pretty disgraceful considering that Sen. David Vitter has admitted to cheating on his wife with a prostitute and has largely been ignored by Republicans.”).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow.  About the only thing that could make me actually do anything in support of Sen. Larry Craig is word that he’s being  picketed by Fred Phelps and his gang…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gay-stuff","category-politics-law","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29096,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/03\/phoiling-phelps.html","url_meta":{"origin":11364,"position":0},"title":"Phoiling Phelps?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 3-Aug-12 5:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Man, I would love to see the intolerant idjits of the Westboro Baptist Church go away and be utterly forgotten ... but I really don't see how a restriction of this sort will pass judicial muster as a First Amendment issue. 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