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Westboro's Site Crashes, Shirley Phelps Denies Anonymous Involvement

Yesterday a letter purporting to be from Anonymous hackers claimed that the original threat against Westboro was a hoax and not from them. However God Hates Fags has been down all day today. In the clip below, radio host David Pakman talks to Westboro's Shirley Phelps.

BROOKLYN: NY Assemblyman Dov Hikind Attacks Westboro's Shirley Phelps

At Westboro Baptist Church's picket outside a synagogue in Brooklyn yesterday, NY Assemblyman Dov Hikind lunged through the barricades to shove Shirley Phelps-Roper. She says she will not press charges. FYI, Hikind is a completely deranged anti-gay asshat, so you might want to hold your applause.

Outside Snyder Vs. Phelps

Good As You has an email from Shirley Phelps about her time before the Court yesterday. It begins:

I am floating home on a cloud of euphoria. We got to tell the conscience of Doomed america that if they would stop with the proud sin the soldiers would stop dying. Alito was a serious disappointment. I don't know why I would expect him to man up and tell a squally rebel to drink a frosty mug of shut the hell up and AVERT your eyes. On the other hand, the three women were lions of proper and simple First Amendment Law. When a nation is cursed of God, everything becomes so complicated and there [i]s no MAN among the people, so I find that dynamic to be altogether perfect. Shortly this nation is going to crack open like a walnut and be cast into the sea. The horrors of it will make this nation of girly boys beg for some good old-fashioned troops from Iran or China pouring into your borders and laying you waste.

Westboro's Sound Of Hatred

Parody typically falls under fair use, but I've tipped off Sony Legacy Recordings, the administrators of Simon & Garfunkel's catalog, just in case.

(Via - Good As You)

Westboro: God Hates Gaga

Everybody's favorite Clowns For Jeebus will be picketing a Lady Gaga concert next month. Although there is "nothing new or different" about her. OK then. Also on the Westboro picket tour are stops at a couple of synagogues, Joel Osteen's megachurch, and a hockey game in New Hampshire. Because hockey in the winter is "lazy and unimaginative." They are seriously running out of ideas over at Westboro.

Meanwhile Lady Gaga is teaming up with Virgin Mobile to help homeless LGBT youth.

Radio Blowhard Michael Savage And Westboro's Phelps Banned From UK

The UK does not want hatemongers entering their country and have released a "least wanted" list of banned persons.

Fred Waldron Phelps Snr, a 79-year-old American Baptist pastor, and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper are barred for their anti-gay comments. Both have picketed the funerals of Aids victims and celebrated the deaths of US soldiers as "punishment" for US tolerance of homosexuality. Talk show host Michael Savage - real name Michael Weiner - is also excluded. His views on immigration, Islam, rape and autism have caused great offence in America.

Some in the UK oppose banning visitors based on speech. Expect the U.S. rightwing to leap on this news as an example of the road America is headed down.

RELATED: Martha Stewart was once banned from the UK because of her felony conviction.

Westboro Banned From UK

Westboro Baptist Church's Fred Phelps and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper have been banned from entering the UK. Just yesterday we learned of their plans to protest a British staging of the Matthew Shepard play, The Laramie Project.

Two members of the Westboro Baptist Church, an American religious sect which calls for homosexuals to be killed, have been banned from entering the UK. Fred Phelps and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper had planned to fly into Britain to protest against a play being put on by a gay youth group. The pair are members of the church, based in Kansas, which has been described as "the most evil religious sect in the world". Mr Phelps, 79, and his daughter Ms Phelps-Roper, 51, had targeted a performance of The Laramie Project, about the death of an American man killed for being homosexual.

They had announced that they would picket the play, which is due to be held at a school arts centre in Basingstoke, Hampshire, on Friday. But the pair will now be stopped by immigration officials if they arrive and placed straight on a flight back to the US. The ban comes after Dutch MP Geert Wilders was barred from the UK last week for his extremist views on Islam. A UK Border Agency spokesman said: "The Home Secretary has excluded both Fred Phelps and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper from the UK. "Both these individuals have engaged in unacceptable behaviour by inciting hatred against a number of communities. The Government has made it clear it opposes extremism in all its forms.