What in the world is wrong with the Westboro Baptist Church?

Last Christmas we had this “church” telling us Santa is Satanic and a pedophile, this year they’re planning to protest a Lady Gaga concert.  You can read the “press release” below.

I mean, sure I’m tired of hearing Lady Gaga everywhere I go, but I don’t feel the urge to protest her. Oh, wait, that isn’t why they’re protesting her? My bad.

Okay, I get it, they’re going after her “fashion sense”!  No?  Close?

So, they say she is teaching “rebellion.”  What, she’s buying her fans X-Wings and they’re going after the Death Star?  Again, no?  Man, I’m horrible at this game!

Okay, okay … they’re desperately seeking even more media attention for their crazy religious antics by going after a currently popular singer?  YAY!  I think I got it this time!

I was looking at the church schedule for protests (I refuse to link to them as it only helps them and their domain name is offensive … find it for yourselves), and the list is just filled with nonsensical rantings.  Not to mention the protest of the Lady Gaga concert is their third protest of the day.  Here is the description of the protest, it varies somewhat from the press release above: (formatting by them, enjoy)

Lady Gaga Concert at Fox Theatre 527 N. Grand Blvd. — Press Release: http://tiny.cc/LGSTL — “Lady” Gaga has no qualms about displaying her filth for all the world to see, using the platform given to her by God to teach rebellion against Him. She loudly and proudly proclaims her fornication and “sexual relations with women,” saying that she wants to “free” and “liberate” her young fans. Gag! She glories in her shame, encourages everyone she can get her hands on to do the same, and pretends that God is just great to go along with her plan. She wasn’t lying, however, when she said, “This is for God and the gays,” during the MTV VMA’s. What she meant by that was: “In your face, God! You can call gays abominable, but here I stand, Best New Artist, and I say gays are great!” There’s nothing new about the antics of this silly girl; she got here late! Like the many whores who came before her, “Lady of the night” Gaga thinks she can change God by teaching you to hate Him and “liberating” you from His standards. And like those whores, she will not escape the destruction that awaits her for her hatred and deceit. “Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.” Jer. 8:12. And to all those that would follow the example of this treacherous tart, know that God’s curses abide on the disobedient. That includes this warning from God: “And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.” Lev. 26:27-30. Catch that? Because you won’t obey, God will cause you to eat your children, He’ll cast your dead bodies on those of your idols, and He’ll abhor you. Obeying God is your only recourse at this hour. But because you heed the words of stupid rebels like Lady Gaga INSTEAD of the God who created you, this generation is doomed.

It’s fine that Fred Phelps, the head of the church, is a nut job, but how in the world does he find enough followers to actually listen to him?

The thing is, I don’t even care that much for Lady Gaga’s pop music, but I kinda wanna go to this St. Louis concert now … thanks, Westboro Baptist Church!