Foo Fighters vs Westboro Baptist Church

Furious-Red

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1sTM_yEPFU

Foo Fighters' live show in Kansas City later this month is set to be picketed by members of the notorious Christian fundamentalist church Westboro Baptist Church.

The church, who have become notorious after they protested the funerals of fallen US soldiers with signs that read "God hates fags" and "Thank God for dead soldiers", will be out in force outside the band's show at the Sprint Center on September 16.

According to a statement on the church's protest schedule, they have opted to picket Dave Grohl and co's show because:

The entertainment industry is a microcosm of the people in this doomed nation: hard-hearted, hell-bound, and hedonistic. These people have a platform and should be using it to encourage obedience to God; instead they teach every person who will listen all things contrary to him: fornication, adultery, idolatry, fags.

It continues:

The people in this nation have sinned away their day of grace and have so enraged their God that you are seeing new outpourings of his wrath continually. We will be there to remind you that the day of your destruction is upon you, even as you vainly seek comfort in the frivolities of this life.

The church have also picketed the funerals of a number of high profile musicians in recent years, including Michael Jackson and former Black Sabbath singer Ronnie James Dio.

Foo Fighters are currently undertaking a major US tour in support of their seventh studio album 'Wasting Light'.

On their official website, the Westboro Baptist Church said it would also be picketing the World Trade Centre on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

LH Pathe

Shows how rare/fluffy mainstream rock is gone if they deem Foo Fighters a threat to anything at all. what about all that modern pop exhibiting those symptoms? Wolf in sheep's clothing, if ever

Sick of dave ghrol pratting about as the last bastion of rawk on the pop circuit, why the f- would you want to entertain those people anyway?! guess he's just a nice guy.

scudzilla

These are the same fcukin idiots who protest at funerals of U.S Servicemen killed in Afghanistan.

The same fcukin idiots who protested at Ronnie James Dio's Funeral

The same fcukin idiots, who, as i type this, are probably fcuking there sisters and mothers

MetalDog

Westboro church are a bunch of redneck gobsh!tes. Did anyone see that docuumentary Louis Theroux did on them a few years ago? They really are a sad bunch.

scudzilla

MetalDog wrote: »

Westboro church are a bunch of redneck gobsh!tes. Did anyone see that docuumentary Louis Theroux did on them a few years ago? They really are a sad bunch.

here's Part 1 of that, Parts 2-8 are on right hand side

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmIr9P-vkSQ

Nailz

Shower of arseholes. Surreal bunch, but with a purely idiotic way about them. But **** sake, the Foo Fighters? Publicity is Godly.

RayCon

Stop talking about them and they'll go away .... oxygen of publicity an all that blah blah

Kess73

RayCon wrote: »

Stop talking about them and they'll go away .... oxygen of publicity an all that blah blah

Nah genetics will be the end of them at some point. There is only so much inbreeding a line can withstand before it is forced into extinction.

grames_bond

scudzilla wrote: »

These are the same fcukin idiots who protest at funerals of U.S Servicemen killed in Afghanistan.

The same fcukin idiots who protested at Ronnie James Dio's Funeral

The same fcukin idiots, who, as i type this, are probably fcuking there sisters and mothers

The same fcukin idiots who had planned to picket heath ledgers funeral - but decided against it when they found out it was in Australia! :rolleyes:

frag420

RayCon wrote: »

Stop talking about them and they'll go away .... oxygen of publicity an all that blah blah

Who? The FooFighters??

Sephiroth_dude

I just watched the documentary and someone should slap that pastor silly,bunch of clowns.

JBnaglfar

That Louis Theroux documentary is great. He made a follow up on it this year called America's most hated family in crisis.
Part 1 here, the rest are on youtube as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ticxD0GfewA

As Raycon said, best to ignore them. They seem to crave attention and use attacks/criticism on them as validation. Sickening how they tear families apart though. :mad:

Undergod

They're a scam, I reckon. Set up to get people so aggravated they assault them - and then they can sue.

MajorMax

Why the hell can't someone protest Justine Bieber instead, a true imp of Satan

Opinicus

On their official website, the Westboro Baptist Church said it would also be picketing the World Trade Centre on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

I'm sure that will end well.:rolleyes:

Kess73

Undergod wrote: »

They're a scam, I reckon. Set up to get people so aggravated they assault them - and then they can sue.

Most of their funding comes through lawsuits.

seanybiker

The daughter that buggered off on them is a ride.

Nailz

seanybiker wrote: »

The daughter that buggered off on them is a ride.

I reckoned she was a bit tacky. Although she had great big..... Tracks of land.



Although while we're on the topic of Louis Theroux's shows on the Phelps', the latest one is actually on RTÉ Two at the moment, handy that.

Jelle1880

I can just see them now, standing next to the entrance when thousands upon thousands of fans are queuing, most of them with a few drinks in them too...

Should be fun.

seandotcomm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e5hRLbCaCs

FOO FIGHTERS: 1 WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH: 0

Naomi00

seandotcomm wrote: »

FOO FIGHTERS: 1 WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH: 0

Saw this when they posted it on Facebook last night. It's so full of win

Sephiroth_dude

Kess73 wrote: »

Most of their funding comes through lawsuits.

any idea what there lawsuits are about?

seandotcomm wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e5hRLbCaCs

FOO FIGHTERS: 1 WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH: 0

haha thats brilliant !

Undergod

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

any idea what there lawsuits are about?

They provoke people into assaulting them and sue for damages, I think.

seandotcomm

I think this video deserves it's own thread.

Kess73

Undergod wrote: »

They provoke people into assaulting them and sue for damages, I think.

Yep that seems to make up a lot of their lawsuits.

Furious-Red

Had to laugh at one of the protesters saying at the end "I quite like that song" ha

Riddle101

I hate those Westboro Baptist Church guys. They take the fun out of Fundamentalist.

120_Minutes

Riddle101 wrote: »

I hate those Westboro Baptist Church guys. They take the fun out of Fundamentalist.

but they put the mental in.

Angron

I'm not a fan of the Foo Fighters, but I do support them against those bunch of lunatics.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

the westboro baptist church are big proponents of the hiv-aids link

Kess73

Furious-Red wrote: »

Had to laugh at one of the protesters saying at the end "I quite like that song" ha

That was Shirley Phelps-Roper. She is the main spokesperson for the WBC. The woman who codemns people to hell for things like being gay or for having children outside of marriage, yet she managed to have at least one kid outside of marriage herself.

Angron

Kess73 wrote: »

That was Shirley Phelps-Roper. She is the main spokesperson for the WBC. The woman who codemns people to hell for things like being gay or for having children outside of marriage, yet she managed to have at least one kid outside of marriage herself.

Cause it's just not religious if there are no hypocrites.

Kess73

Denny M wrote: »

Cause it's just not religious if there are no hypocrites.

I could use other words to say what I think about that Baptist church and it's members, but they are cetainly not worth getting a ban/infraction over.:D

Motley Crue

I've seen that documentary, a bunch of useless people with nothing to do standing for nobody, because if there is a God out there I'm pretty sure (in fact I bloody well hope) that he/she/it doesn't support the thinking of these people

Anyone who stands for what these people stand for needs to be quietly escorted off to a nice quiet place and left there