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• PEOPLE ARE LEAVG WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH FOR THE BIG GAY HOE ACROSS THE ROAD
• GAY-HATG WTBORO CHURCH PROTTS KY. CLERK WHO DENIED SAME-SEX MARRIAG
• WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH FOUNR FRED PHELPS MAY BE GAY, SUGGTS FORMER MEMBER LREN DRA
• SATANISTS TURNED THE FOUNR OF THE WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH’S DEAD MOM GAY
• DAVE GROHL TROLLS WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH WH A BEE GE CLASSICFIGHTG FOO AND FIGHTG HATE.BY JORDAN HOFFMANAUGT 6, 2021BY KEV MAZUR/GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEDAVE GROHL AND FOO FIGHTERS FOLLOWED UP THEIR LOLLAPALOOZA GIG CHIGO LAST WEEK WH A FEW DAT MISSOURI, KANSAS, AND (TOMORROW) OKLAHOMA. ONE PERFORMANCE THAT WASN’T PREVLY ADVERTISED WAS A STURDY MIDDLE FGER DIRECTED AT THE HATE-MONGERG GROUP OF HOMOPHOBIC SKUNKS KNOWN AS THE WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH.IN THE GUISE OF THEIR DIS ALTER EGOS, THE DEE GE, GROHL AND PANY DROVE BY THE PERENNIALLY-PICKETG DG-DONGS AND DROPPED A THUMPG VER OF THE BEE GE’S SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER-ASSOCIATED H, “YOU SHOULD BE DANCG.” (THE DEE GE’S ALBUM HAIL SAT, WHICH BUTED MID-JULY, IS HALF BEE GE/ANDY GIBB VERS AND HALF LIVE FOO FIGHTERS ORIGALS OM THEIR RECENT MEDICE AT MIDNIGHT ALBUM.)THE TOPEKA-BASED WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH, WHICH THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER LLS “ARGUABLY THE MOST OBNOX AND RABID HATE GROUP AMERI” AND THE ANTI-DEFAMATN LEAGUE SAYS “LASH OUT AT JEWS, MEMBERS OF VAR CHRISTIAN NOMATNS, MLIMS AND PEOPLE OF OTHER RELIGNS,” GAED NATNWI REGNN 1998 WHEN THEY PICKETED THE FUNERAL OF LYNCHED GAY MAN MATTHEW SHEPARD WH REPULSIVE SIGNS AND SLOGANS.THOUGH THE WBC’S PROTT ON THURSDAY WASN’T EXACTLY HEAVILY ATTEND, IS STILL GLOR TO SEE THE PEOPLE BTED BY FUNKY BEATS. IT IS ALSO HEARTWARMG TO SEE A WHE ROCK GROUP CHAMPNG A MIL MO THAT WAS, FOR S, EQUENTLY DISMISSED BY THE MAJORY FOR S ASSOCIATN WH GAY DIENC AND PERFORMERS OF LOR, EVEN LEADG TO SOME VLENT CLASH.TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.HERE IS A DIFFERENT ANGLE.THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME GROHL HAS CROSSED SWORDS WH THIS PARTICULAR HATE GROUP. IN 2011 THE WBC’S LATE FOUNR, FRED PHELPS, LLED THEIR MIC “HELL-BOUND AND HEDONISTIC,” AND LLED FOR A PICKET AT THEIR KANSAS CY, MISSOURI SHOW. FIGHTG BACK, THE BAND GOT ON A FLATBED TCK AND TROLLED THEM WH A DOPEY TUNE “KEEP’ IT CLEAN (HOT BUNS)”IN 2015, SOMETHG SIAR HAPPENED, BUT THIS TIME THE FOO FIGHTERS FOUGHT BACK WH RICK ASTLEY’S “WE FOOLED YOU!” ANTHEM “NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP.” (WHAT’S NICE ABOUT THIS STORY IS THAT LED TO A MEET-UP AND IENDSHIP BETWEEN THE GROUP AND ASTLEY, WHO HAVE SCE PERFORMED TOGETHER.)“YOU SHOULD BE DANCG,” WRTEN BY MRICE, ROB, AND BARRY GIBB, WAS FIRST RERD FOR THE BEE GE’S 1976 ALBUM CHILDREN OF THE WORLD. (HERE’S SOME BAR TRIVIA: ONE OF THE PERCSNISTS WAS STEPHEN STILLS, WHO WAS RERDG AT THE SAME MIAMI RERDG STUD AND SAT .) THE SONG H NUMBER ONE ON BILLBOARD’S HOT 100, THE THIRD OF NE BEE GE TUN TO DO SO.THE FOLLOWG YEAR, THE TRACK WAS ONE OF SIX BEE GE NUMBERS CLUD ON THE SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER SOUNDTRACK. WHILE ONE ULD (AND SHOULD!) STAY UP UNTIL THE WEE HOURS ARGUG WHAT IS THE BT SCENE JOHN BADHAM’S MASTERPIECE, STRONG ARGUMENTS HAVE BEEN MA FOR JOHN TRAVOLTA’S DANCE SEQUENCE SET TO “YOU SHOULD BE DANCG.” YOU N WATCH AGA BELOW. GOOD LUCK STG STILL.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR — BEHD THE SCEN OF ANTHONY BOURDA’S INIC NU PORTRA— WILL TIKTOK SAVE THE OLYMPICS?— KG EDWARD VIII, KG GEE VI, AND THE RIFT THAT CHANGED HISTORY— NEW SUMMER BOOKS FOR EVERY MOOD— JEFF BEZOS AND THE LIFE-CHANGG MAGIC OF GOG TO SPACE— THE BT NEXT-GEN FACE TONERS FOR BALANCED SK— JARED AND IVANKA HAVE REPORTEDLY CLOSED ON BILLNAIRE BUNKER MANSN 2.0— THE REHABILATN OF PRCE EDWARD AND SOPHIE— FROM THE ARCHIVE: HOW JOHN KENNEDY GRACEFULLY TOOK HIS PLACE HISTORY— SIGN UP FOR THE BUYLE TO RECEIVE A CURATED LIST OF FASHN, BOOKS, AND BETY BUYS ONE WEEKLY NEWSLETTER.MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW MK, THIEL, ZUCKERBERG, AND ANDRESEN—FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS—ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE, AUTOCRATIC REALYBY JONATHAN TAPLDESANTIS BOARD NIX FREE DISNEY PASS AND DISUNTS FOR EMPLOYE, MOVE SURE TO W THE GOVERNOR MAJOR POPULARY POTSBY BS LEVJORDAN HOFFMAN
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• EQUALY HOE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI, BULLET HOL

PEOPLE ARE LEAVG WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH FOR THE BIG GAY HOE ACROSS THE ROAD

Wtboro Baptist Church, church Topeka, Kansas, that beme well known for s strint opposn to homosexualy and the gay rights movement, as exprsed on picket signs rried by church members at funerals and other events. The church claimed that s theology was based on a strict terpretatn of Calvist Wtboro church began picketg June 1991 at Gage Park Topeka, allegedly a gatherg place for homosexuals.

The church first attracted attentn throughout the Uned Stat October 1998 when picketed the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a gay llege stunt om Wyomg whose murr was wily nmned as a hate crime. AdvertisementSKIP Drkut/Statman-Journal, via Associated PrsWhen you purchase an penntly reviewed book through our se, we earn an affiliate 8, 2019UNFOLLOW A Memoir of Lovg and Leavg the Wtboro Baptist ChurchBy Megan Phelps-RoperIn 1991, a breakaway church Topeka, Kan., began picketg at a nearby park popular wh gay men. Holdg handma signs that read “Gays Are Worthy of Death (ROM.

GAY-HATG WTBORO CHURCH PROTTS KY. CLERK WHO DENIED SAME-SEX MARRIAG

1:32), ” members of the Wtboro Baptist Church began what would bee a vic, s-long mpaign agast homosexuals, Jews, Mlims and other perceived the picketers was 5-year-old Megan Phelps-Roper, holdg a sign she uld not read.

When he noted the hypocrisy of Wtboro’s llg for the ath penalty for gay people — “Didn’t your mom have your olst brother out of wedlock? The rabow "Equaly Hoe" is loted across the street om the anti-gay Wtboro Baptist Church.

When Aaron Jackson found a property for sale across the street om the Wtboro Baptist Church Topeka, Kansas, right away he had the ia to buy the hoe and pat the lors of the Pri founr of Plantg Peace — a global nonprof whose iativ clu environmental nservatn and LGBTQ advocy mpaigns — Jackson wanted to make a statement wh his choice of pat a number of relig groups are supportive of LGBTQ cln and equaly, acrdg to the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD), the Wtboro Baptist Church is not one of anizatn is nsired to be an extremist and anti-gay relig group, acrdg to the Southern Poverty Law Center. And s members believe that homosexualy is a s, acrdg to the church's webse (which clus a homophobic ephet s URL).

WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH FOUNR FRED PHELPS MAY BE GAY, SUGGTS FORMER MEMBER LREN DRA

Left: A sign above an entrance to the Wtboro Baptist Church photographed Augt 2014 says that homosexuals will suffer "the vengeance of eternal fire. As NBC reported at the time, Jackson and thori disvered anti-gay graffi as well as seven bullet hol on the outsi of the home.

Visors started wrg posive msag on the outsi of the Equaly Hoe after was vandalized wh antigay graffi 2016, Jackson told Insir. Other events have clud a gay weddg, a drag show and a mock weddg between Dumbledore and Gandalf.

Plantg Peace has also engaged large-sle polil activism over the past uple of years, cludg a billboard North Carola that lled out the state's anti-LGBT Hoe Bill 2 and a billboard anti-gay marriage clerk Kim Davis' hometown llg out her You Go15 Thgs To Know About Beg Transgenr By Nicholas M.

SATANISTS TURNED THE FOUNR OF THE WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH’S DEAD MOM GAY

The relig sect, the subject of two BBC 2 Louis Theroux documentari, put great fah s own ‘leral’ terpretatn of the Bible – both horrifygly homophobic and anti-Semic. He would load up his red pick-up wh homema signs, reprentg what he believed was the “scriptural posn on homosexualy”: “Milant gays spread aids”, “Gays are worthy of ath” and – what would bee the Church’s most famo msage – “God hat fags. They targeted the police partment, the cy ernment, many lol church that had joed the unter protts agast them, and any person who spoke out agast them, or spoke up for gay people.

DAVE GROHL TROLLS WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH WH A BEE GE CLASSICFIGHTG FOO AND FIGHTG HATE.BY JORDAN HOFFMANAUGT 6, 2021BY KEV MAZUR/GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEDAVE GROHL AND FOO FIGHTERS FOLLOWED UP THEIR LOLLAPALOOZA GIG CHIGO LAST WEEK WH A FEW DAT MISSOURI, KANSAS, AND (TOMORROW) OKLAHOMA. ONE PERFORMANCE THAT WASN’T PREVLY ADVERTISED WAS A STURDY MIDDLE FGER DIRECTED AT THE HATE-MONGERG GROUP OF HOMOPHOBIC SKUNKS KNOWN AS THE WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH.IN THE GUISE OF THEIR DIS ALTER EGOS, THE DEE GE, GROHL AND PANY DROVE BY THE PERENNIALLY-PICKETG DG-DONGS AND DROPPED A THUMPG VER OF THE BEE GE’S SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER-ASSOCIATED H, “YOU SHOULD BE DANCG.” (THE DEE GE’S ALBUM HAIL SAT, WHICH BUTED MID-JULY, IS HALF BEE GE/ANDY GIBB VERS AND HALF LIVE FOO FIGHTERS ORIGALS OM THEIR RECENT MEDICE AT MIDNIGHT ALBUM.)THE TOPEKA-BASED WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH, WHICH THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER LLS “ARGUABLY THE MOST OBNOX AND RABID HATE GROUP AMERI” AND THE ANTI-DEFAMATN LEAGUE SAYS “LASH OUT AT JEWS, MEMBERS OF VAR CHRISTIAN NOMATNS, MLIMS AND PEOPLE OF OTHER RELIGNS,” GAED NATNWI REGNN 1998 WHEN THEY PICKETED THE FUNERAL OF LYNCHED GAY MAN MATTHEW SHEPARD WH REPULSIVE SIGNS AND SLOGANS.THOUGH THE WBC’S PROTT ON THURSDAY WASN’T EXACTLY HEAVILY ATTEND, IS STILL GLOR TO SEE THE PEOPLE BTED BY FUNKY BEATS. IT IS ALSO HEARTWARMG TO SEE A WHE ROCK GROUP CHAMPNG A MIL MO THAT WAS, FOR S, EQUENTLY DISMISSED BY THE MAJORY FOR S ASSOCIATN WH GAY DIENC AND PERFORMERS OF LOR, EVEN LEADG TO SOME VLENT CLASH.TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.HERE IS A DIFFERENT ANGLE.THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME GROHL HAS CROSSED SWORDS WH THIS PARTICULAR HATE GROUP. IN 2011 THE WBC’S LATE FOUNR, FRED PHELPS, LLED THEIR MIC “HELL-BOUND AND HEDONISTIC,” AND LLED FOR A PICKET AT THEIR KANSAS CY, MISSOURI SHOW. FIGHTG BACK, THE BAND GOT ON A FLATBED TCK AND TROLLED THEM WH A DOPEY TUNE “KEEP’ IT CLEAN (HOT BUNS)”IN 2015, SOMETHG SIAR HAPPENED, BUT THIS TIME THE FOO FIGHTERS FOUGHT BACK WH RICK ASTLEY’S “WE FOOLED YOU!” ANTHEM “NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP.” (WHAT’S NICE ABOUT THIS STORY IS THAT LED TO A MEET-UP AND IENDSHIP BETWEEN THE GROUP AND ASTLEY, WHO HAVE SCE PERFORMED TOGETHER.)“YOU SHOULD BE DANCG,” WRTEN BY MRICE, ROB, AND BARRY GIBB, WAS FIRST RERD FOR THE BEE GE’S 1976 ALBUM CHILDREN OF THE WORLD. (HERE’S SOME BAR TRIVIA: ONE OF THE PERCSNISTS WAS STEPHEN STILLS, WHO WAS RERDG AT THE SAME MIAMI RERDG STUD AND SAT .) THE SONG H NUMBER ONE ON BILLBOARD’S HOT 100, THE THIRD OF NE BEE GE TUN TO DO SO.THE FOLLOWG YEAR, THE TRACK WAS ONE OF SIX BEE GE NUMBERS CLUD ON THE SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER SOUNDTRACK. WHILE ONE ULD (AND SHOULD!) STAY UP UNTIL THE WEE HOURS ARGUG WHAT IS THE BT SCENE JOHN BADHAM’S MASTERPIECE, STRONG ARGUMENTS HAVE BEEN MA FOR JOHN TRAVOLTA’S DANCE SEQUENCE SET TO “YOU SHOULD BE DANCG.” YOU N WATCH AGA BELOW. GOOD LUCK STG STILL.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR — BEHD THE SCEN OF ANTHONY BOURDA’S INIC NU PORTRA— WILL TIKTOK SAVE THE OLYMPICS?— KG EDWARD VIII, KG GEE VI, AND THE RIFT THAT CHANGED HISTORY— NEW SUMMER BOOKS FOR EVERY MOOD— JEFF BEZOS AND THE LIFE-CHANGG MAGIC OF GOG TO SPACE— THE BT NEXT-GEN FACE TONERS FOR BALANCED SK— JARED AND IVANKA HAVE REPORTEDLY CLOSED ON BILLNAIRE BUNKER MANSN 2.0— THE REHABILATN OF PRCE EDWARD AND SOPHIE— FROM THE ARCHIVE: HOW JOHN KENNEDY GRACEFULLY TOOK HIS PLACE HISTORY— SIGN UP FOR THE BUYLE TO RECEIVE A CURATED LIST OF FASHN, BOOKS, AND BETY BUYS ONE WEEKLY NEWSLETTER.MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW MK, THIEL, ZUCKERBERG, AND ANDRESEN—FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS—ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE, AUTOCRATIC REALYBY JONATHAN TAPLDESANTIS BOARD NIX FREE DISNEY PASS AND DISUNTS FOR EMPLOYE, MOVE SURE TO W THE GOVERNOR MAJOR POPULARY POTSBY BS LEVJORDAN HOFFMAN

The ngregatn began picketg at different events across the untry – om gay pri march to the streets of San Francis. She baed celebri wh anti-gay msag and openly celebrated Japan’s Fhima nuclear disaster. Wtboro Baptist — the Kansas church known for s vilently anti-gay agenda — has wad to the ntroversy over the Kentucky urt clerk who ref to issue same-sex marriage licens fiance of urt is takg aim at Kim Davis, who has gone to jail for refg to allow gay people to marry on the basis that would vlate her Christian beliefs.

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Wtboro, or WBC, is notor and wily srned for picketg funerals for service members of victims and mass shootgs to draw attentn to s "God Hat Fags" argument that God is punishg Ameri for acmodatg homosexualy.

Prottg chiefly what they perceived as Ameri’s acceptance of homosexualy, the members of the small Topeka, Kan., church hnted gay pri paras, feral urtho, even ary funerals, wieldg picket signs blazoned wh slogans such as “Thank God for 9/11” and, most famoly, “God hat fags. Pastor Fred Phelps of Topeka, Kan., looks to the sky as he wields plards prottg homosexualy outsi the Albany County Courthoe Laramie, Wyo., on April 5, 1999, where one of the fendants the beatg ath of a gay Universy of Wyomg stunt, Matthew Shepard, will stand trial.

Wtboro Baptist Church members om Kansas planned an anti-gay monstratn outsi Wilson High School Long Beach, Calif., Febary 2010. Wtboro Baptist Church members prott on the Universy of Missouri mp Columbia after football player Michael Sam’s announcement that he is gay, Febary 2014.

EQUALY HOE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI, BULLET HOL

Make no mistake, Wtboro Baptists’ anti-gay msage is as blunt and offensive as ever, and the new signs seem signed not to move toward the mastream, but to more fully reflect the church’s Calvist theology, which appears unchanged. Wtboro Baptists have always unrstood their anti-gay exhortatns as a kd of “tough love. Nor is homosexualy the sole obssn once was.