Early this morning (the time God wakes up), the Westboro Baptist Church announced that they have officially renounced their positions on issues that they have spent years protesting, including homosexuality. According to Shirley Phelps-Roper, “We realized that a lot of people have really been missing the point that we’ve been trying to convey, and we’re prepared to accept that. We only wanted to spark a debate over these issues and take advantage of their controversy in order to spread awareness over how serious the issue of gay rights is in this country.”
She later said that the Church would be ceasing all of its picketing activities, and that Shirley herself would take some time off from the Church’s daily operations in order to “spend some more time with [her] beautiful children, Samuel, Margy, Rebekah, Isaiah, Zacharias, Grace, Gabriel, Jonah, Noah, Luke, and even Joshua.”
The Church’s leader, Fred Phelps Sr., said that God no longer hated fags and fag-enablers, but hate and hate-enablers. He said the Church would begin a campaign to “promote tolerance, acceptance, and love”, and that the URL of the official Westboro Baptist Church Website would be changing to “godlovesfags.com”.
In other news, I plan to spend the next week locked in my room crying. So alone…
“Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." (Psalms 30:5)
