New Low for the Westboro Hate Church

I've mentioned this hate-church before (see here and here), but now they've really reached rock bottom. In the past they've tried to desecrate the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq. This time they considered targeting the funerals of the children killed in the Amish school shooting in Pennsylvania.

The controversial anti-homosexual Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., has canceled its plans to stage a protest at the funerals of the five Amish girls executed in their Pennsylvania school, a church official said Wednesday.

Shirley Phelps-Roper, the daughter of church's pastor, told FOXNews.com the group canceled the protests in exchange for an hour of radio time Thursday on
syndicated talk-show host Mike Gallagher's radio program.

"We're not going to any of the Amish funerals- that's the agreement we're making- that we won't go to any of them," Phelps-Roper told FOXNews.com.

Apparently hate isn't enough. They've now turned to extortion. They even lack the principles of a true hate group- they'll trade their protest away for a little air time. There's no hothievesng theives.

Of course, the agreement doesn't stop them from rubbing salt in the open wound of the Amish community:

"Those Amish people, everyone is sitting around talking about those poor little girls -blah, blah, blah - they brought the wrath upon themselves," Phelps-Roper said, adding that the Amish "don't serve God, they serve themselves."

Incredibly mean-spirited. As a college professor points out later in the article, this act of murder is in no way connected to their anti-gay agenda. They are merely exploiting the issue in the most crass way possible.

GP