{"id":17163,"date":"2010-04-19T21:00:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T03:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=17163"},"modified":"2010-04-19T21:00:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T03:00:49","slug":"i-might-actually-need-to-do-something-about-this-or-maybe-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/19\/i-might-actually-need-to-do-something-about-this-or-maybe-not.html","title":{"rendered":"I might actually need to do something about this … or maybe not"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fred Phelps’ loathsome Westboro Baptist Church<\/a> is coming to town for their standard panoply of “God Hates Fags” (and Jews and Catholics and Americans and …) protests.<\/p>\n

And, it turns out, they’re coming very close to town.\u00a0 As in, a few blocks away, this Saturday, 7 a.m. to 7:30 a.m., at St Thomas More Catholic Church down the street.<\/p>\n

Hrm.<\/p>\n

On the one hand, it’s hard think of a group that is a greater waste of oxygen, or worse advertisement for Christianity, than the Phelps clan, and more deserving of being publicly countered (if not ridiculed).<\/p>\n

On the other hand … 7 a.m. on a Saturday?<\/p>\n

Maybe the greater moral victory is for them to be there marching back and forth, and everyone else be snug in bed with their loved ones (of whatever gender).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fred Phelps’ loathsome Westboro Baptist Church is coming to town for their standard panoply of “God Hates Fags” (and Jews and Catholics and Americans and …) protests. And, it turns out, they’re coming very close to town.\u00a0 As in, a few blocks away, this Saturday, 7 a.m. to 7:30 a.m., at St Thomas More Catholic … Continue reading “I might actually need to do something about this … or maybe not”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[27,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-religion-me"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4248,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/08\/calling_in_mark.html","url_meta":{"origin":17163,"position":0},"title":"Calling in markers","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Oct-03 3:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I am morally bound not to hate anyone. 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