Westboro is coming here!

[Trip]

Looks like the douchebags are headed to East Tenn.

Too bad I am too busy with getting ready for the honeymoon. I would like to go mess with them.

http://www.volunteertv.com/home/headlines/33550394.html

KNOXVILLE, Tenn (WVLT) -- As a community continues to mourn the loss of 5 people plus an unborn child, an out-of-state group plans to picket.

A Kansas church, known for protesting funerals of U.S. soldiers says it's heading to Scott County to send a message.

Wednesday, the Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas announced their plans to picket in Huntsville in the near future, but some local churches say they are bringing the wrong message with them.

Pastor Bill Shiell works at the First Baptist Church in downtown Knoxville.

From the message to the name, he does not agree with the group planning to protest in Scott County. Bill says "Just because someone says they're a Baptist Church does not make them a Baptist or a Church."

The group from Kansas announced their intentions to picket in Tennessee, with a release that states "God hates Tennessee" across the top.

"In Tennessee you call yourselves God fearing but you don't bother to take the bible off the shelf and read the words," says Westboro member Shirley Phelps-Roper.

We spoke with Shirley over the phone, who says they will picket at Scott County High School, to speak directly to the youth. She says, "We'll get them all, because when we get the children, don't you worry we'll get the parents and we'll get everyone else in that community."

Pastor Chris Buice at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville says "Nobody knows exactly what those families are going through. It's just a lot of pain and to have this type of publicity stunt on top, is just unnecessary cruelty."

Chris is proud their motto is completely opposite of those with Westboro group. He says "we welcome all people here, red, yellow, black, white, gay straight, we welcome everybody. We love everybody to the best of our human ability."

When we told church member Gordon Gibson about the group's plan to picket in Huntsville, shock was all the retired minister could express. "I wish they'd go home and study what their faith should be, we don't need them here," says Gordon.

Bill Shiell says "I can think of no more obscene or heinous act, short of a crime itself, than to go and impose your own views of the world on somebody else's moment of grief."

The Westboro representative we spoke with says this picket is quote their "service to the Lord."

They said they will be in Scott County late next week. They initially had planned to protest the funerals this week, but, again, now they plan to picket at the High School.

[Rider]

Fuck those jerkoff assholes.

[Captain Morgan]

What was the initial story? What are they actually protesting?

[marko138]

I covered a soldiers funeral a couple years ago and they were there. Fucking losers.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Captain Morgan

What was the initial story? What are they actually protesting?

They are protesting that this was punishment for Tennessee disobeying God.

http://www.volunteertv.com/home/headlines/33310199.html

SCOTT COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT) -- The East Tennessee community is in mourning after a deadly crash that killed four Scott High School cheerleaders in an SUV and an adult woman and an unborn child in another vehicle.

Two of the cheerleaders killed in the crash, Jamie Hill, 15, and Aleasha Hill, 17, were sisters. The other girl killed was identified as Nikki Hughett, 16. Their friend and fellow cheerleader, Ashley Mason, 15, was critically injured and later died at UT Medical Center in Knoxville.

In the other vehicle, passenger Jeweline Ledbetter King , 49, was killed, and a 22-year-old pregnant woman, Miranda King, was sitting in the back seat and lost her unborn child from injuries in the crash. The car's driver, 22-year-old Malcum King, and a 10-month-old child, Aiden Wilson, also were injured and taken to a hospital. Their conditions are not known.

The Hill family and the Mason family have asked that memorial donations be made in lieu of flowers to help pay for funeral expenses. Donations may be sent directly to Four Oaks Funeral Home in Huntsville, Tenn., and should be made either in the name of the Hill sisters or in the name of Ashley Mason.

A tree of life has been set up at Four Oaks Funeral Home in remembrance of Jamie, Aleasha, Nikki, and Ashley. You can bring ribbons to place on the tree, and they will remain there until all funeral services are concluded.

[Ducati Diva]

How fu**ing sick are some people!?!

[jeeps84]

I have never understood their purpose and probably never will.

[Captain Morgan]

Originally Posted by Trip

They are protesting that this was punishment for Tennessee disobeying God.

http://www.volunteertv.com/home/headlines/33310199.html

Wow. I can't even begin to understand how these morons can get away with this shit. Freedom of speech, I guess. Everyone is allowed to state their opinion, no matter how ignorant it may be. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if some of those morons disappeared in the Tennessee hills.

[Trip]

The crash wasn't drinking/driving related. It was the night it was raining and one of the cars hydroplaned across the road.

[Captain Morgan]

You know, it just amazes me how these people can believe that God kills people as punishment for not obeying him. If that were the case, there wouldn't be a single child molester alive. They'd all die as soon as they touched a child inappropriately. These people need to learn their religion if they're going to practice it.