Westboro Baptist Church To Picket Funerals Of Arizona Shooting Victims

Westboro Baptist Church: Thank God For the Shooter
I have one question for Jesus. How come Satan doesn't rent a schoolbus and drive really, really, fast (85 MPH?) into your picketers as they are getting out of their minivan? Fuck them hard, up the ass, on the hood of a hot car. These Westboro people are retards. And not the good kind. God sent the shooter? Kind of makes me long for the days when he would just call down a Lightning Strike. What's the Matter with Kansas? Westboro Baptist Church. Riley's really picking up a lot of pe...

Beshear orders flags at half-staff for Arizona shooting victims
FRANKFORT — Gov. Steve Beshear has ordered flags at all state Office Buildings be lowered to half-staff immediately through Friday, Jan. 14, in honor of Victims of Saturday’s shooting in Tucson, Ariz.. that wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed six people. “Saturday’s senseless act of violence is truly unthinkable and its repercussions have affected not only the citizens of Arizona, but this entire nation,” said Gov. Beshear. “I ask that Kentuckians ...

Westboro Baptist Church To Picket Funerals Of Arizona Shooting Victims
Westboro Baptist Church, the Topeka church known for its inflammatory anti-gay Protests, plans to picket the Funerals of the six people gunned down in Arizona on Saturday. In a flier posted on its web site, the Controversial church writes, "THANK GOD FOR THE SHOOTER -- 6 DEAD!" The message continues: God appointed this rod for your sins! God sent the shooter! This hateful nation unleashed violent Veterans on the servants of God at WBC--hoping to silence our kind warning to obey God and ...

Westboro Baptist Church Happy About Arizona Shootings
Will THIS finally outrage Americans? Will we all now start seeing the connection between the hatred for LGBTs, undocumented immigrants and other People of Color? The Huffington Post found this poster on the website of the antigay Westboro Baptist Church (WBC): “THANK GOD FOR THE SHOOTER — 6 DEAD!” The message says: God appointed this rod for your sins! God sent the shooter! This hateful nation unleashed violent Veterans on the servants of God at WBC-hoping to silence our ...

Westboro Baptist Church Announce Plans to AZ Shooting Victims Funerals Including Christina Greenes
(Hillbuzz) — The Left does some truly despicable things in this world, but this is a new low for Democrats. Former three-time Democrat Gubernatorial Candidate Fred Phelps Jr. (commonly called just “Fred Phelps”) and his Westboro Hate Group have announced plans to disrupt the Funeral of 9 year-old Shooting Victim Christina Greene. Christina was murdered by Jared Lee Loughner yesterday in his Assassination attempt on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. The little girl was born on S...

Obama leads silence for shooting victims
US President Barack Obama led a nationwide moment of silence Monday to honor the Victims of the shooting in Arizona, where six people died and 14 people were wounded by a lone gunman. At precisely 11:00 am (1600 GMT), Obama and his wife Michelle emerged from the White House, took a few steps toward the South Lawn and stood, heads bowed, the only sound the somber ringing of a bell. After the observance, they returned to the building without making a statement. The silence was also observed out...

Obama leads silence for shooting victims
US President Barack Obama led a nationwide moment of silence Monday to honor the Victims of the shooting in Arizona, where six people died and 14 people were wounded by a lone gunman. At precisely 11:00 am (1600 GMT), Obama and his wife Michelle emerged from the White House, took a few steps toward the South Lawn and stood, heads bowed, the only sound the somber ringing of a bell. After the observance, they returned to the building without making a statement. The silence was also observed outsid...

Westboro Baptist Church to picket funeral of 9-year-old Tucson shooting victim
Speaking of hatred that knows no bounds or Party Affiliation, the Westboro Baptist Church, famous for picketing the Funerals of slain members of the American Military, has announced plans to disrupt the funeral of the youngest of yesterday’s Shooting Victims, 9-year-old Christina Greene. The child was among the six fatalities that resulted from a Shooting Spree in Tucson by Jared Lee Loughner that left Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords hospitalized with a brain injury. Christina, who was th...

Westboro Baptist Church to Picket Funeral of 9-Year-Old Tucson Shooting Victim
Speaking of hatred that knows no bounds or Party Affiliation, the Westboro Baptist Church, famous for picketing the Funerals of slain members of the American Military, has announced plans to disrupt the funeral of the youngest of yesterday’s Shooting Victims, 9-year-old Christina Greene. The child was among the six fatalities that resulted from a Shooting Spree in Tucson by Jared Lee Loughner that left Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords hospitalized with a brain injury. Christina, who was th...

Westboro Baptist Church to Picket Funeral of 9-Yr-Old Girl Murdered in Tucson
Westboro Baptist Church says that God sent the shooter to Tucson, Arizona to kill and maim as many people as possible. And the followers of WBC plans on protesting at the Funeral of 9 year-old Murder Victim Christina-Taylor Greene. Christina was born on September 11, 2001, and was shot Saturday morning waiting to meet her Congresswoman, and passed away a short time later at the University of Arizona Medical Center. According to her father, John, Christina was recently elected to the
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Shooting Victim Died Saving Wife
Huffington Post reports: The longtime pastor of 76-year-old Dorwan Stoddard, one of the six Victims of Saturday’s Arizona shooting, says he had a conversation with Stoddard’s wife in the Hospital that leads him to believe Stoddard died trying to protect her from the spraying bullets. “According to Mavy when I talked to her in the hospital, when the gunshots went off Dorwan pulled her down and ended up on top of her,” Michael Nowak, pastor of the Mountain Avenue Church o...

What If We Just Ignored the Westboro Baptist Church?
A number of blogs have linked today to the predictably despicable reaction of the Westboro Baptist Church, the "God Hates Fags" people, to the Arizona shooting. They're a particularly hateful group of maniacs, and it's tempting to point out their actions so people understand that that sort of thing exists within our country. But they're a tiny group that has no supporters anywhere, at least none willing to stand up and join them. They have a First Amendment right to say whatever they want -- ind...

Tell the Arizona Shooting Victims That Guns Don't Kill
The chant that guns don't kill people is just a cowardly way of evading responsibility for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' shooting and the six-death nightmare in Arizona, says Harold Evans....

Moment Of Silence For Arizona Shooting Victims To Be Led By Obama
WASHINGTON — When President Barack Obama steps out on the South Lawn of the White House Monday morning, the thoughts of the nation will turn to Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the other Victims of an Assassination attempt against her. Obama will lead the nation in a moment of silence to honor the congresswoman and the six people killed and 13 others wounded in Saturday's shooting outside a Tucson Supermarket. "It will be a time for us to come together as a nation in prayer or reflect...

Arizona Shooting Victims' Neighbor: High School Sweethearts 'Were Very Devoted'
Don and JoAnn Newland met their neighbors George and Dorothy Morris when the couple moved to their Oro Valley, Ariz. Retirement community in the late 1990s. "They were our neighbors," JoAnn Newland told HuffPost on Monday. "We would see them at the mailbox and we would talk." Dorothy Morris, 76, was one of six people killed Saturday by a crazed gunman at a "Congress on the Corner" event hosted by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.). George Morris is still in the Hospital after reportedly sufferi...

South Florida lawmakers to observe moment of silence for Arizona shooting victims
South Florida lawmakers elected to Congress will hold swearing-in ceremonies in Miami and Fort Lauderdale on Monday morning that will include a moment of silence for Victims in this weekend's Arizona shooting. In Miami, newly elected Sen. Marco Rubio is scheduled to be joined by U.S. Rep.'s Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Mario Diaz-Balart, David Rivera and Frederica Wilson at 10 a.m. in the courtyard in front of the Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. federal Courthouse in downtown Miami. U.S. District Chief Judge ...

8 Still Hospitalized after Deadly Arizona Shooting
Monday, January 10, 2011 By Pauline Arrillaga, Associated Press From left, Ellie Steve, 6, Lucia Reeves, 6, and Zoe Reeves, 18, gather for a candlelight vigil outside the offices U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., in Tucson, Ariz., Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011. Giffords was critically wounded during a shooting at a political event Saturday in Tucson. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson) Phoenix (AP) - Doctors say Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is still responding to doctors and her condition is stable. He...

Sick Westboro Baptist Church Taking Protest to Arizona
This is sick. Why isn’t the media blaming Jared Loughner’s criminal acts on Fred Phelps and his violent, hateful Rhetoric? Phelps praises Loughner’s violent acts in this video, where he announces he will be taking his sick Protest to the funerals of the Victims of the Arizona Shooting Spree. He also refers to Loughner as an Afghanistan War Veteran, even though initial reports of Loughner being a Veteran turned out to be false. HillBuzz has more on this sick, twisted man, incl...

Westboro Sludge Plans to Picket Funeral of 9-Year-Old Killed in Tuscon
Saturday the Westboro Baptist Church, always hungry for negative attention, gave thanks to their God for shooter Jared Lee Loughner. Loughner is being held for the shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords that took place Saturday morning at a Supermarket in Tucson. Members of Fred Phelps's Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) plan to picket memorial services of Loughner's Victims. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of ...

"I Have Confidence in Our Legal System:" NJ Son of Arizona Shooting Victim
The son of one of the Victims caught up in the Assassination of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords said, "Because of the state of mind of the suspect, I don't really hold any bad feelings" toward the man arrested at the Murder scene, Jared Lee Loughner. Former New Jersey resident Phyllis Schneck, 79, also died in the attack and her son Ernest, who lives in Rutherford, N.J., told NBC New York, "I have confidence in our legal system that they're gonna do the right thing to mak...

2 Tucson Shooting Victims Have Strong Local Ties
RUTHERFORD, N.J. (CBS 2) — Two of the Victims of the massacre in Arizona have strong ties to our area, Kathryn Brown reports. Phyllis Schneck, 79, grew up in Rutherford, met her husband at Rutherford High School, and still spent summers in New Jersey to see family. The grandmother was better known for her macaroni and cheese than her involvement in politics, but on Saturday, she went to a community event for Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and became one of six Victims killed during a sho...

Alaska will lower flags in memory of Tucson shooting victims
Flags will be lowered to half-staff beginning Monday until sunset Friday in honor of the Victims of the Arizona shootings. U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 19 other people were shot Saturday morning by gunman who opened fire at a town hall gathering she was hosting at a Safeway in northwest Tucson. Six people died and Giffords was critically injured. President Barack Obama ordered flags to be lowered and the Governor's office says the state is doing the same. "I urge all Alaskans to pause today ...

President calls for moment of silence in honor of Tucson shooting victims
Stumble This! President Barack Obama called on Americans to observe a moment of silence Monday at 11:00 a.m. EST to honor the Victims of the shootings in Tucson, Arizona. "It will be a time for us to come together as a nation in prayer or reflection, keeping the Victims and their families closely at heart,” the president said in an advisory. Obama will observe the moment of silence with White House staff on the South Lawn. Flags are to be flown at half-staff in accordance to the president...

Shooting victims' physician begins treating emotional trauma
Dr. Peter Rhee, the medical director at University Medical Center gave an update on the status of the eight Tucson Shooting Victims the facility is treating, saying they're beginning to treat the "person and the patient as a whole." Rhee told reporters at a Press Conference that two patients remain in the intensive care unit, one of whom is in critical condition; five others are in serious condition; and two others are in good and fair condition. Some patients will require further su...

Giffords still critical but condition encouraging, doctors say
WASHINGTON — Doctors said Monday they were encouraged that the condition of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has stabilized since she underwent emergency Brain Surgery on Saturday after being shot by a gunman who went on to kill six people and wound numerous others. The suspect, Jared Lee Loughner, will make his first appearance in Federal Court on Monday in Phoenix. The 22-year-old college castoff and Army reject faces two counts of Murder and three Attempted Murder charges in connection with th...