Westboro's Next Target? M.J.'s Funeral

By Michelle Garcia

The Westboro Baptist Church clearly knows no boundaries.

Members of Fred Phelps's fundamentalist church are planning to picket the funeral of the late pop icon Michael Jackson, according to the group's website. The funeral is scheduled for Tuesday at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

The controversial group became well known in the 1990s for picketing funerals of those who had died of AIDS, though they eventually moving on to picketing services for public figures and military personnel.

Jackson was using the Staples Center to rehearse for his upcoming 50-show concert tour, which was to start on July 13 in London, according to MTV.

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Name: Alex
Date posted: 7/9/2009 2:41:00 PM
Hometown: Santa Cruz

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PJR writes: "you're just arguing against your own desires! " I guess we have a lot in common, PJR.
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Name: PJR
Date posted: 7/7/2009 10:35:00 PM
Hometown: Michigan

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Godfrey, not only is there no evidence of any gay gene, there's no evidence of any "gay component", a term which appears to be some gay agenda made up wordsmithing, of course with no scientific basis!
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Name: PJR
Date posted: 7/7/2009 10:30:00 PM
Hometown: Michigan

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Better hope there's no "gay gene" or like the horror suffered by Downes Syndrome children, 90% of "gay gene" children will be aborted!
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Name: PJR
Date posted: 7/7/2009 10:27:00 PM
Hometown: Michigan

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Alex, don't let your own wants create the gay straw man argument, as you're just arguing against your own desires!
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Name: Alex
Date posted: 7/7/2009 1:17:00 PM
Hometown: Santa Cruz

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Westboro is protesting MJ's funeral because MJ let his pedo secret get out. Westboro believes firmly in keeping pedophilia under wraps (and in the family). PJR hangs out on this site because the idea of man-on-man sex titillates him.
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Name: Bill McFarlin, Jr.
Date posted: 7/6/2009 2:57:00 PM
Hometown: Upland, CA

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Fred Phelps is a huge joke. I wish him alot of luck with the LAPD. Security for the event is going to be nearly as tight as it was for the 1984 Olympics. If Fred Phelps and company were not already part of the group invited by the family and did not receive tickets from AEG for the event, they won't even get within viewing distance of Staples Center.
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Name: ben thare
Date posted: 7/6/2009 11:19:00 AM
Hometown: usa

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@mike, not that i disagree completely, ignoring trolls on our site will give them less reason to continue their postings, but in pjr's case, there is something more going on. pjr, is waging a disguised public battle over his own repressed homosexuality, though he only dimly suspects this himself. it will all get worked out in due course. good luck to our troubled friend. (hint to pjr, the key is thinking for yourself)
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Name: mike
Date posted: 7/6/2009 9:34:00 AM
Hometown: ohio

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people like pjr come here to start flame wars. just don't respond. ignore it and he'll get tired of the nonresponse. i could sit here too and call you all whatever slur i want all day and it doesn't matter, cuz if i get a rise out of no one, i'll get bored. people like that exist and will hate you regardless of any logic or reason and will continue to check everyday to see if someone got mad at them and so they can continue to spew their garbage. or do what i do. just laugh at those comments. yes, i know they represent mainstream america's opinion of us.. or at least 30%, but just remember that in time this will all be an ugly memory.
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Name: Brad Bailey
Date posted: 7/6/2009 2:08:00 AM
Hometown: Fayetteville, Arkansas

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Dr. Arthur Frederick Ide is a medical doctor, PJR. You're just an ignorant, closed-minded bigot.
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Name: Godfrey
Date posted: 7/5/2009 9:26:00 PM
Hometown: San Francisco

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Actually there is significant evidence building to support a genetic basis to "sexual orientation". To be clear: there is no evidence of a "genetic disorder"-just a genetic component.

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