Fanatics vs. Even Crazier Anti-Gay Fanatics at Falwell's Funeral
By: Lowell
Published On: 5/23/2007 8:19:39 AM
This is almost beyond parody.
A 19-year-old student at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, apparently in cahoots with a soldier from Fort Benning and a high school student, was caught by authorities in Virginia with "several gasoline-based bombs in his car.
Except, leave it to Wonkette, it's NOT beyond parody:
In light of this, concerned citizens across the nation have urged the government to start rounding up Christians and imprisoning them without charges in secret CIA prisons. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is reportedly planning a major bust of extremist Christian sleeper cells across the South.
Pretty funny, except for a couple of problem. First, I'm sure that most Christians think that the anti-gay (and bomb-making, pro-Falwell) fanatics are bonkers. Second, Gonzales is an incompetent Bush hack (sorry for the redundancy) who couldn't "bust" anything, except maybe his own bubble, if his life depended on it.
Speaking of beyond parody:
Investigators determined that [Liberty University student Mark David] Uhl had problems with a group that protested at the funeral, Gaddy said. The Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church sent about a dozen members to protest across the street from the funeral, claiming Falwell was a friend to gays. The group also has picketed soldiers' burials, claiming the deaths are God's punishment for a nation that supports homosexuality.
It's amazing, almost beyond anything Borat could have come up with, but there are actually people like this in our great nation. Amazing.
Comments
Haha.. (Terry85 - 5/23/2007 11:37:30 AM)
Nothing is beyond parody by Wonkette standards.
So Let Me Get This Straight (Susan P. - 5/23/2007 12:12:34 PM)
There's a guy who wants to blow up the guys who are protesting the funeral of a guy who hated gays, all in the name of Christianity?
And on top of that (Terry85 - 5/23/2007 12:30:07 PM)
The group protesting the funeral, was an anti-gay group.
It's a little confusing (Susan P. - 5/23/2007 10:33:55 PM)
but I think the gay people come out ahead on this one. They're not trying to blow anyone up, protest at a funeral, or spread hatred in the name of religion.
Bombs in the name of Jesus (thegools - 5/24/2007 11:35:13 AM)
to kill fanatical protester, who protest in the name of Jesus. Makes perfect sense to me.
My wife taught some of this guys simblings. He was a local boy around here.
even stranger (martha - 5/23/2007 12:42:22 PM)
Photographs of Uhl on local TV seem to depict a skin-head. Very odd.