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Westboro Baptist Church to picket Whitney Houston's funeral

Seeded on Thu Feb 16, 2012 5:19 AM EST
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The Westboro Baptist Church said Wednesday that it would picket the funeral of Grammy-winning singer Whitney Houston because she engaged “in sorceries.”

The 48-year-old singer, daughter of gospel legend Cissy Houston, had struggled in recent years to repair a once squeaky-clean image sullied by public battles with drugs and alcohol, erratic behavior, and botched performances, as well as by a rocky and sometimes violent marriage to R&B singer Bobby Brown.

She was found unconscious in her bathtub on Saturday afternoon at the Beverly Hilton hotel.

 

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“God gave Whitney Houston a beautiful singing voice and a world-wide platform, which she should have used to encourage obedience to His Word and warn the wicked that their rebellion brings destruction from the hand of God,” the church sa

Attention seeking pricks

  • 5 votes
Reply#1 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 5:20 AM EST
Jonathan-1917156

no, attention seeking SANTORUM covered pricks.

  • 3 votes
#1.1 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 5:22 AM EST
YaddaYadda

I have the distinct feeling that if any of these @!$%#faces show u, they will get their asses handed to them. Literally.

  • 3 votes
#1.2 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:30 AM EST
Woody316

no, attention seeking SANTORUM covered pricks.

A frothy mix of bigotry and hate that is sometimes the byproduct of religion.

  • 3 votes
#1.3 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:44 AM EST
Use Your Mind

I don't wish anyone death but I almost wish a well known gangster wrapper would die just so these fools would try to picket the funeral. Could you imagine these white red-necks picketing at 50 cents funeral? Can you say "bust a cap in your a@#."

  • 3 votes
#1.4 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:54 PM EST
YaddaYadda

...gangster wrapper ...

So...would that wrapper have bows attached? Just askin'... AAAHAHAHAHAHA!! Ok. I'm sorry. That was horrible.

  • 2 votes
#1.5 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 1:38 PM EST
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Woody316

I think they are barking up the wrong tree. People in America LOVE celebrities and take offense to comments about dead celebrities very easily. Hope all the Westboro folks get beat to death (then we can picket their funerals). I'm not normally a violent person but in their case, make 'em bleed.

  • 3 votes
Reply#2 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 9:00 AM EST
stueystu

It's incredible that people like this profess to being Christian. It makes me shudder. To even suggest that they would assemble at this time of mourning for Ms. Houston to further their agenda (which they really don't have) is insane. I am assured they would never get close though. As in the movie The Bodyguard, there would be plenty there, as police, to make sure these nutjobs would cause no disturbances or get close to those in mourning if they even dared try to follow through with their threat.

  • 1 vote
Reply#3 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:53 PM EST
sunshine girl-685508

There will be some hard-ass black, gangsta types at Whitney's Funeral- rappers, ballers, producers with street cred.

The WBC get off easy picketing mostly suburban, rural, white funerals (although the veterans' famlies and patriotic bikers gave them some good retaliation) but they ain't seen NOTHING YET when you get a bunch of greiving, black, urban people all riled up and upset.

And nobody will feel the least bit sorry for Shirley Phelps when the beat-down comes. It just might be the ass-kicking most of America will cheer for.

  • 5 votes
Reply#4 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 1:52 PM EST
sbstarlite

I have the same thought and hope it is true. Perhaps if these deviates at the church were shown a little black hospitality it would stop their insulting pickets or at least put them in the hospital where they can recant their own sins.

  • 2 votes
#4.1 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 4:13 PM EST
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TR-421173

Clipped to:Westboro Baptist ABOMINATION!

  • 2 votes
Reply#5 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 7:16 PM EST
TR-421173

Why the Westboro Baptist Church is a Scam

  • 1 vote
#5.1 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:41 PM EST
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SuperSaiyan

Shameful, just shameful...

  • 1 vote
Reply#6 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 8:18 PM EST
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