Flailing Anti-Gay Church Takes on Lady Gaga and Professional Hockey

by Michael Jones · 2010-01-07 09:53:00 UTC
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Lady GagaThe Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), the homophobic creation of Rev. Fred Phelps and his ilk of like-minded relatives, is so far out of the mainstream they might as well exist on another planet. (Would that they did.)

Though they gained fame and fortune (or, well, at least fame) over the past decade protesting Matthew Shepard and the funerals of American service members, they've since seemingly switched their tactics. Forget soldiers. They now want to protest Lady Gaga and professional hockey.

Why? Because Lady Gaga and her minion of rebels are queering up the world, and because the National Hockey League continues to employ someone who has a gay son. Sounds crazy, but oh, it's real.

A Phelps famliy member even went so far as to create a parody of Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" song, mixing up the words to make it "Whorish Face," with such groan-inducing lines as: You pissed off God, you'll see what he's got.

Angry! But the fun and playground trash talk don't stop there.

According to Outsports, the WBC is also lashing out at professional hockey, calling the sport lazy and unimaginative because a hockey official supports his gay son.

"Hockey freaks God H8s U! WBC will picket your stupid, cold (really, ice hockey in the middle of winter?! COULD YOU BE MORE LAZY AND UNIMAGINATIVE?) violent, time-wasting crappy Hockey game," the WBC writes.

No word on whether the WBC traveled over to a nearby daycare to taunt a few five-year-olds.

In all seriousness, the WBC barely deserves coverage, short of mentioning that the institution must be flailing so badly that they have to stoop to these levels to attract attention. Truthfully, the most relevant thing they've done over the past year is serve as a fundraising success for scores of LGBT organizations.

But though they're crazy, are they really that far off from groups like the National Organization for Marriage, or Americans for Truth? Sure, the WBC has a particularly violent and tacky way of protesting. But aren't their end results all the same?

Photo: Hinata-Emo-Me

Michael Jones is a Change.org Editor. He has worked in the field of human rights communications for a decade, most recently for Harvard Law School.
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