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[Leafsnail]

Jesus Christ.  So not only did they have a funeral fucked up, they were also expected to pay $16,000?

[chaoticag]

I wonder if we can protest their protests with signs that are meant to be provocative but while exercising free-speech now.

[Josephus]

Bill O'Reilly takes the financial bullet for a greiving family. Good man.

He's bombastic as all hell, but that's mighty big of him.

[Duuvian]

Bill O'Reilly takes the financial bullet for a greiving family. Good man.

He's bombastic as all hell, but that's mighty big of him.

I agree. I'm not a fan but that was pretty cool at least.

[Aqizzar]

Hey, the guy is a human being.  What, do we need to start handing out medals for agreeing that crashing military funerals to bash gays is beyond the pale?

[Josephus]

I was quite surprised, actually. I don't normally imagine Bill O' Reilly as the charitable type, probably because all I know about him comes from Sen. Franken.

[Mephansteras]

Hey, the guy is a human being.  What, do we need to start handing out medals for agreeing that crashing military funerals to bash gays is beyond the pale?

No. But it's one thing to condemn something. It's something else entirely to back your words up with money.

So, hey, he earns a few points in my book for that regardless of what I normally think of the guy.

[Zai]

So here is an update: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/07/pick_your_comic_book_gods.php
There is something very important there that I didn't know.Fred Phelps will sue you if he has a chance to, so if you are going to make fun of him, be careful. The last thing we need are bay12vers going to court over this (Not that many of us have expressed wanting to do). Also, the link has a link to a list of comic book gods worth worshiping, just in case you want to use that.

I say picket their picketing, like chaoticag said (but not the "meant to be provocative" part; that's just asking to have their side of the case considered more legitimate if you're sued).

My opinion of O'Reilly definitely increased while my opinion of the appeals court decreased. Expecting him to pay thousands of dollars for suing over what he did, then winning his case, then having the judgment reversed is pretty ridiculous. Have them pay their own goddamn legal fees. Now not only does that guy have to pay for his own (unless he was his own lawyer?), he has to pay theirs too. That's just bullshit.

What would have happened to the guy if he had just plain not paid them on principle, even if he had the money? I don't think I would give them a dime were I in that guy's shoes, not after having them picket my son's funeral. If I could afford it, I'd donate that exact amount to some LGBT-like charity or to the army instead. Or even to both!

Not to derail this thread, but I really hope one of the Phelps kids (preferably their favorite, if they have one) turns out to be gay. Then they'd have to picket their own offspring's funeral, lest they know in their own hearts that they're hypocrites.

[chaoticag]

One of them is an atheist, does that count?

[Zai]

One of them is an atheist, does that count?

I'm not sure I've heard of the WBC picketing atheists' funerals. Do they?

[Leafsnail]

I'm sure they would if they had the time.  Then again, they'd picket almost everything if they had the time.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I don't think the WBC even really recognizes the existance of atheists. We are suspicously absent from the things they think are destroying the US.

I almost find the WBC kind of refreshing, in a common enemy sort of way. No matter where you are politicly in this country, no matter what you think of the issues, it is a safe bet that everyone around you agrees that the members WBC are not very good people.

[alway]

Heh, they are sort of the RL version of internet trolls... Everyone hates them, they get their lulz by baiting people and generally screwing with others, and they are generally hateful and abusive towards anyone else, including, from what I've read, each other. And to top it all off, they are lawyers so they can profit off it all.

[Cthulhu]

Maybe they feel atheists aren't easily worked up enough to be profitable.

They can be arrogant as hell, especially on the internet, but atheists don't seem to hulk out like some religious people do when you start really attacking their beliefs.

[Criptfeind]

Maybe they feel atheists aren't easily worked up enough to be profitable.

They can be arrogant as hell, especially on the internet, but atheists don't seem to hulk out like some religious people do when you start really attacking their beliefs.

Uhhh...