Anti-gay religious group wants Twitter to 'serve god'

Everyone's favorite anti-gay, anti-Jew, anti-military, anti-Lady Gaga, anti-hockey, anti-basketball zealots are coming to San Francisco. The Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church -- notorious for picketing funerals of fallen soldiers -- plans various protests here and across California. Among its stops is Twitter headquarters in SF on Thursday (4:30 p.m.), reports NBC Bay Area's Jackson West. According to the church's site, they want to remind the company of its heavenly obligation:

"They (Twitter) have a duty to God just like every other person to serve God and to use ALL their resources in their service to him. So we come with hearts of love and joy to humbly suggest they GET ON THAT TASK!"

Megan Phelps-Roper, granddaughter of church founder and preacher Fred Phelps, explained in her tweet:

Don't be silly! We're not protesting Twitter as a platform; that's like picketing television! =) We're picketing the people who run @Twitter, who don't use their position & voice to warn a generation of rebels of the consequences of their rebellion. Same goes for those at Foursquare & Gowalla (tho I personally find their products useless -- at least relative to Twitter. =)

The Thursday tour of SF includes the Contemporary Jewish Museum (12:15 p.m.), the Anti-Defamation League (1:10 p.m.), Jewish Community Center (1:50 p.m.), Lowell High School (3:20 p.m.), and Golden Gate Theatre's "Fiddler on Roof" (7:20 p.m.)

On Friday, the group moves on to Gunn High School in Palo Alto (7:25 a.m.) to protest the spate of suicides and Stanford University's Taube Hillel House (8:10 a.m.). Counter-protests are planned for both events. Westboro returns to SF, spreading its good cheer at Congregation Beth Israel & Day School (10 a.m.), the Jewish news weekly (11 a.m.), the U.S. District Court (11:45 a.m.) -- battleground for Prop. 8 -- Jewish Community High School of the Bay (2:10 p.m.), George Washington High School (3 p.m.), and "Rent"at the Randall Museum Theater the Randall Museum Theater's production of "Rent" (6:50 p.m.). They're also targeting "Rent" at the Sacramento Community Theater next month.

Members will demonstrate in Texas before turning their attention to California again. Pickets culminate at the Oscars, where the group will condemn the worship of the golden idol and denounce all gowns made of tulle, mesh or credit cards.

From: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/scavenger/detail?entry_id=56122

Bunch o' sheep fuckin' Godwhores...

J.A.C.