Westboro Baptists Vs Comic-Con!

[Greg Cox]

Originally posted by Fred Phelps:
... so start calling on Batman and Superman now, see if they can pull you from the mess that you have created with all your silly idolatry.

Hehehe.

It's funny because he's projecting his own inability to distinguish fantasy from reality onto others.

That's the problem with pretty much everyone who protests Harry Potter, comic books, D&D, whatever. Invariably, they take all this fun fantasy stuff way more seriously than the people who actually enjoy it . . . and they never seem to realize that fans don't actually believe in superheroes or magic or vampires . . . .

 

[Jack Bauer]

Fred Phelps looks like a decomposing corpse. Zombies are real!

 

[Aragorn]

Of course zombies are real!!

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMIVQoPpbYk[/yt]

 

[Turtletrekker]

Never has the narrow line between hysterically funny and fucking pathetic been so neatly illustrated...

QFT, just because it can't be said too many times.

 

[FordSVT]

Whenever I read about Fred Phelps he always sounds more like an elaborate practical joke than a real person. It's somewhat difficult to imagine what if anything he and his followers actually do when they're not protesting something in an incendiary fashion.

Suing people.

Don't forget all the yucky, yucky in-breeding they do.

 

[Cutter John]

I'm just holding out for the day they bury ol' Fred. It's gonna look like Woodstock.

 

[SeerSGB]

I'm just holding out for the day they bury ol' Fred. It's gonna look like Woodstock.

that man has made sooooo many enemies, they'll have to bury him in secret.

 

[Aragorn]

Don't forget all the yucky, yucky in-breeding they do.

Inbreeding?

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz9jL3YNX-0[/yt]

 

[Neroon]

As odious as I find the antics of Phelps and crew.... let's get back on topic with some discussion regarding the protest and Comic Con, etc

 

[Buck Rogers]

Well I agree with KLaus this is too funny for words,but if this is on you tube I'll alert my fellow club members to watch out for it.

Signed

Buck Rogers

 

[Buck Rogers]

Well I agree with KLaus this is too funny for words,but if this is on you tube I'll alert my fellow club members to watch out for it.

Signed

Buck Rogers

 

[The Lensman]

For some reason I was thinking of Landover Baptist Church when I clicked on this thread. They are to Westboro, what Colbert is to O'Reilly.

 

[FordSVT]

Don't forget all the yucky, yucky in-breeding they do.

Inbreeding?

I doubt the members of WBC are that musically talented.

 

[KimMH]

So rather than give the man what he wants, which is the inevitable conflict, what if a number of cosplayers agreed to show up as Phelps, and treat him as a fictional character - out-Phelps-ing Phelps so to speak...? While it might call attention to Phelps conceptually, if done right it would come off as dismissive of him and his followers rather than treating them as anything of import... If people are willing to dress up as The Joker or Darth Vader, why not Fred Phelps?

C'mon - even nerds and geeks have standards . . .

 

[SeerSGB]

Comic Alliance has pics and vids of the Counter Protest

They've faced down humans time and time again, but Fred Phelps and his minions from the Westboro Baptist Church were not ready for the cosplay action that awaited them today at Comic-Con. After all, who can win against a counter protest that includes robots, magical anime girls, Trekkies, Jedi and...kittens?

Unbeknownst to the dastardly fanatics of the Westboro Baptist Church, the good folks of San Diego's Comic-Con were prepared for their arrival with their own special brand of superhuman counter protesting chanting "WHAT DO WE WANT" "GAY SEX" "WHEN DO WE WANT IT" "NOW!" while brandishing ironic (and some sincere) signs. Simply stated: The eclectic assembly of nerdom's finest stood and delivered.

Pretty funny, if only for the Jesus cosplayer.

 

[Aeon]

Awesome!

 

[Greg Cox]

Jesu
And Wouldn'T Moses & Jesus be the first ''super heroes''?

Nah. Gilgamesh beat them to the punch.

Not to mention Hercules and that crowd.

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

It is now Day 2 and I still haven't seen them or felt a disturbance in the force.

 

[thumbtack]

So their "protest" is four people?

 

[captcalhoun]

My god has a big hammer. Thor shall smite the puny carpenter.