Insane 'Church' Plans to Protest Ledger's Funeral

I can't even call the Phelps family a church because they are a complete joke. And I feel like I'm just adding to the fire by even blogging about this despite how few people this reaches compared to say a radio show or MSNBC, but I need to say something: Wow.

I say "wow" once in a while when there's some really great music coming out, but this is a whole new level of wow. This is a I'm completely shocked that such people in this world can actually exist wow. And I can blame myself a bit for giving them the time a day, but it is really the aforementioned media that need to stop kicking this should-be dead horse. We know they do not make sense to the sane. We know they are completely off the wall with their "God Hates Fags" and "righteous" bullshit. So why bother?

There's already a documentary floating around somewhere about these completely out-of-touch individuals, so do we really need to give them the limelight with this one? No, we do not. Because in all seriousness, I do not believe they would go away if we stopped giving them the attention they so desperately need, but they would no longer matter. If you do not make the news and you are not popping up in our Web browsers than you are unimportant.

So in case you have not heard or did not get it from the headline, the Westboro Baptist Church plans to protest Heath Ledger's memorial service, funeral and for some reason the Oscar's. I actually remember seeing them or at least people with similar idiotic viewpoints in L.A. at the Oscar's a couple years ago. It's getting old.

Shirley Phelps-Roper, one of the main, loud-mouth players for the 'church,' was interviewed yesterday on the Kane morning show on 99.5 in Washington, D.C. It is a rather upsetting interview, to be honest. The host tries to lighten it up and play Elton John music in the background while she tries to talk, but there's really too much bullshit coming out of her mouth to find any of it really funny. When the person who is being played doesn't get it, then it sort of misses the point. Either way, the podcast of the interview can be found here. They do try to call her out on her illegitimate child during the interview, which causes her to produce a loophole for herself that somehow gets her out of hell.

In short: the Phelps are far from sane, but the media needs to stop thinking they can have reasonable conversations with them and needs to get them out of the headlines. It's only giving them what they want.