Foo fighters vs WBC

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/19...st-church/

(CNN)– Rock stars the Foo Fighters played an impromptu show for a group of protesters from Westboro Baptist Church who had come to protest outside the band's show Friday night in Kansas City, Missouri.

Band members jumped onto a flatbed truck, sporting costumes they wore in a recent video parody, parked across the street from the protest, and sang "Hot Buns," CNN affiliate KSHB reported.

The lyrics to the song: "Driving all night, got a hankering for something/Think I'm in the mood for some hot-man muffins/Mmmm, sounds so fine, yes indeed" made pointed response to the church's protest.

As they often do, the protesters held up brightly colored signs that read, "God Hates Fags," and "Thank God for Dead Soldiers."

Dave Grohl, the frontman for the Foo Fighters, ended the song with a patriotic message: "Ladies and gentlemen, God bless America! Land of the free, home of the brave," KSHB reported.

In a news release, dated August 30, 2011, the church said it would protest the Foo Fighters concert because "The entertainment industry is a microcosm of the people of this doomed nation: hard-hearted, Hell-bound, and hedonistic to the max. Every person with a platform should be using it to encourage obedience to God; instead, you teach all things contrary to Him: fornication, adultery, idols, fags."

Westboro Baptist Church has been greeted in a variety of ways at protests in the recent past.

This summer, Mars Hill, a multisite church in the Seattle area, welcomed protesters with coffee and doughnuts.

"They need Jesus, too, maybe as bad as anyone on the Earth. As a church, we're called to love people. They're people, so they make the list," Mars Hill Pastor Mark Driscoll told CNN in June.

The Topeka, Kansas-based Westboro was started by Fred Phelps in 1955 and is best known for protesting soldiers' funerals, with protesters carrying their controversial signs.

The church says on its website that it is an "Old School (or, Primitive) Baptist Church," though it has no known ties to any broader national Baptist denomination.

Phelps told CNN in 2006, "You can't preach the Bible without preaching the hatred of God."

The church's membership is small and mainly made of Phelps family members.

The church is regularly sued for defamation but often wins those cases. Last year, one such case went all the way to the Supreme Court, where the justices upheld members' right to free speech. One of Phelps' daughters, a Harvard Law-trained attorney, represented the family before the court.

The protest and response generated substantial publicity and attention for the band and the church.

The Foo Fighters performance went viral over the weekend. The band posted a behind-the-scenes video on YouTube of preparations play on the street in front of the church that has racked up nearly a half a million hits.

A representative for the Foo Fighters told CNN, "The band is leaving that video/performance as their only comment on the matter."

The band is on tour promoting a new record. The church is perpetually on tour promoting its brand of hellfire and brimstone, protesting military funerals, churches and, as announced this weekend, the funerals of the nine people killed in an air show accident in Reno, Nevada.

Silly journalists, the song's called Keep It Clean.

[video=youtube;6e5hRLbCaCs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e5hRLbCaCs[/video]

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Hot Buns works too.

Too bad it doesn't make the Foo Fighters' music suck less.

I don't think Christians should be using insults like "fag". Weren't Christians called to be the "salt of the Earth and light of the world"? How are they being a shining example of how a godly person should act, if they're doing stuff like this? =.=

The WBC are just a bunch of bigots hiding behind the pretext of Christianity, selectively using portions of the religion to justify their actions and behaviors while disregarding all the portions that actually matter. They're nothing but a cult of attention seeking hypocrites and I am honestly amazed every day they're not firebombed by an unstable family member they pushed too far.

I don't think Christians should be using insults like "fag". Weren't Christians called to be the "salt of the Earth and light of the world"? How are they being a shining example of how a godly person should act, if they're doing stuff like this? =.=

They aren't christians actually, look at their signs "Christians caused fags marriage", they don't look themselves as christians but something else.

OT: wow foo fighters, i think this is the best way to fight this kind of people, making them look like a joke, because that's what they are no one cares about them, oh and the protester is right when he said "And the Fagots" , Dave forgot about his Church...

[video=youtube;Co0Sqhh17hM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co0Sqhh17hM[/video]

Seems relevant.

They're nothing but a cult of attention seeking hypocrites and I am honestly amazed every day they're not firebombed by an unstable family member they pushed too far.

They're all brainwashed. Duh.

They're all brainwashed. Duh.

I'm referring to the families they're antagonizing, not their own family members. Duh.

I'm referring to the families they're antagonizing, not their own family members. Duh.

I said the same thing, but then I saw a video where one of the kids got hit with a rock, like one of the 4 year olds. I felt really bad for him because he doesn't know what he's doing.

Oh and one of the daughters actually left because they wouldn't allow her any freedom. They litterally disowned her, burned any picture involving her, it was pretty fk'd up. Unfortunately I was surprised by this event, I thought they finally lost so much money they collapsed after the whole anonymous thing.

Where exactly would they "lose" money?

Where exactly would they "lose" money?

You didn't know? Everything they have goes into it, it was in the documentary of "Inside WBC" or something. Problem is ever since that supreme court ruling, people have supporting them by having them as their represented lawyers, although they don't agree with their views at all lol.

But if I remember right, they were saying it was like 150-200k spent on trips across country to spread their message.

Yes, but what does that have to do with Anonymous? You said it like somehow Anonymous bankrupted them.

They've got more than enough income from their family practices to keep doing this crap forever, just like they've been doing. They just build up enough, pick a target and go.

Yes, but what does that have to do with Anonymous? You said it like somehow Anonymous bankrupted them.

They've got more than enough income from their family practices to keep doing this crap forever, just like they've been doing. They just build up enough, pick a target and go.

Well that was a pretty ambiguous response(referring to the "where exactly.."), but, I haven't actually seen anything news related with them since anonymous, so I figured after that whole blow up with retardation, and the second "inside look" they lost their spotlight. Although the firm pays for most of their bills, so they claim, the documententary made it clear they were losing a lot of money.

That's just a sympathy plow to try to get donations.

They're not losing a lot, they're voluntarily spending a lot, and you can't spend what you don't have, and they're not spending past the point of being able to support themselves, they're just dumping every extra dime they can into whoring for their 'cause'.

Same diff, they are making investments into something they thought they'd get back in donations, thinking people would follow their social suicide ideology

I love bible thumpers. They're so silly.

How they haven't been murdered yet is beyond me to be honest.

Referring to the Westboro cult, not Foo Fighters. Foo Fighters are awesome.

Too bad it doesn't make the Foo Fighters' music suck less.

basis?