Australia: A Fag Fantasy Island

International News, By Christian Taylor, 18th July, 2008

Westboro Baptist Church, best known for their slogan “God Hates Fags”, say that they had plans to come out to Australia to picket World Youth Day, but Australian authorities wouldn’t let them in.

“Yes, these Roman Catholic priests, bishops, cardinals – all the way up to the Pope – have got a lot of shameless nerve, luring hundreds of kids to a sodomite island thousands of miles away, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, with their reputation of molesting kids!” says Westboro. “What kind of idiots – escapees from the funny farm masquerading as parents – will let their kids go to Fantasy Island of the Fags, masquerading as a nation called Australia?”

Shirley Phelps-Roper, spokesperson for Westboro, told Same Same, “If your government would give us a visa we would be there, but they won’t!”

The Westboro Baptist Church got plenty of headlines earlier this year when they vowed to picket Heath Ledger’s memorial service, because of his depiction of a gay character in the film Brokeback Mountain. Every time a media outlet tried to have a conversation with Shirley, it always seemed to end up in a screaming match.

“God Hates Australia for criminalising gospel preaching about fags,” says the controversial church. “Just quoting Leviticus 18:22, ‘Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind; it is an abomination’, will get you arrested in fag dominated Australia.”

America’s first amendment has been the very thing that’s allowed Westboro to freely preach their controversial message. Laws protecting free speech have allowed them to picket everything from funerals to theatre productions. However, when they started picketing the funerals of fallen soldiers, new legislation was written to stop them, much to the chagrin of Westboro, who have been fighting to uphold America’s free speech laws ever since.

It’s ironic that up until a few days ago, we were fighting for the same thing.

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