Westboro Baptist at the Peake

[bchris02]

Westboro protested the Lady Gaga concert in OKC back in 2010.

[kevinpate]

I do not know how many are at the peake but there are apparently only around forty people who are members of the church

A seemingly much nicer family of faith over in Arkansas could probably surpass them in membership by 2038.

[Easy180]

At least someone with the name beginning with Westb will be at the game tonight

[Plutonic Panda]

Westboro protested the Lady Gaga concert in OKC back in 2010.

Why???? lol

[Mel]

Hail is to clean to strike them. I'd rather it be a big ol' chunk of blue ice.

[boscorama]

Ugh, Ch4 began their 10 o'clock newscast on this. Way to go, "News"-4.

[hoya]

Where's that gang member who shot people at the playoffs last year? Can't we let him out of jail for just one night?

[ljbab728]

Ugh, Ch4 began their 10 o'clock newscast on this. Way to go, "News"-4.

Of course, we also could have never had a thread about this too. Way to go OKC Talk.

[venture]

Hail is to clean to strike them. I'd rather it be a big ol' chunk of blue ice.

Well tried the hail thing, just didn't work out.

[Bellaboo]

I walked through the Cox, accross the street to the arena, and never saw them tonight.....

[Snowman]

I walked through the Cox, accross the street to the arena, and never saw them tonight.....

From some of the photos people were posting on twitter mocking the protest, it looked like they were in the southeast corner of the Myriad Gardens

[warreng88]

From some of the photos people were posting on twitter mocking the protest, it looked like they were in the southeast corner of the Myriad Gardens

We drove down Robinson around 8:15 pass the park and didn't see them there. They might have already been gone by that time.

[Anonymous.]

via reddit/twitter/social media in general.

[hoya]

via reddit/twitter/social media in general.

This is going on Facebook.

[venture]

That's hilarious. Those poor children.

[Plutonic Panda]

this is going on facebook.

nice!!!!!!!!!

Another thing, why are they able to just tape off part of the sidewalk like that and stay there?

[Larry OKC]

I imagine that was the restrictions placed on them by the City when the protest permit was issued, but that is just a guess.

[Bunty]

Why???? lol

They must have hated one of Lady Gaga biggest hits called "I Was Born This Way".

[soonerguru]

via reddit/twitter/social media in general.

This guy is my new personal hero.

[Plutonic Panda]

This guy is my new personal hero.

Man, I wish I would've say that. I would love to walk up to them and be like "alright lets get this thing going" lol

[Plutonic Panda]

They must have hated one of Lady Gaga biggest hits called "I Was Born This Way".

What is wrong with these people. Is this what they do at their meetings?

"Ok, so anyone have any new protests we can do? No one has came out recently but I don't like lady gaga's song, lets protest it" Phelps "ok lets go".

2 years later. "HEY GUYS AFTER COUNTLESS HOURS ON THE INTERNET I FOUND AN NBA PLAYER IS GAY, LETS GET OUR SIGNS AND GO!!!!!!"

I mean really?????

[venture]

I watched a documentary on them a few years back, they are definitely an odd branch. Phelps is full of anger and hate. He has everyone of his followers / family members believing they are going to hell for the most part unless they protest and tell everyone else they are doomed. I didn't have any intention of watching it, since I was just flipping through channels at the time, but its one of those train wreck situations. You are sitting there watching observing their actions and hearing their statements and about 30 minutes in I was wanting to start slapping some sense into a few of them.

It is a wonder if they will survive once old man Phelps bites the big one (he's getting up there), but unfortunately even some of the younger teens in the group are just as hateful. They are pretty much the closest thing we have right now to a modern day hate group in this country, but at least aren't following the path (as of yet) of the more tenured hate groups like the KKK, Black Panthers, and other supremacy groups. Sometimes you wonder if it is only a matter of time, but I think with the way equality is spreading the country they are becoming more and more irrelevant. Of course, does that mean we are just setting up for a "cornered cat" scenario where they will get desperate? Hopefully not.

[bhawes]

The black panther did not go around murdering people or lynching people.

[Bellaboo]

The black panther did not go around murdering people or lynching people.

You are correct, they sold drugs and extorted businesses in Oakland.

[Bunty]

I watched a documentary on them a few years back, they are definitely an odd branch. Phelps is full of anger and hate. He has everyone of his followers / family members believing they are going to hell for the most part unless they protest and tell everyone else they are doomed. I didn't have any intention of watching it, since I was just flipping through channels at the time, but its one of those train wreck situations. You are sitting there watching observing their actions and hearing their statements and about 30 minutes in I was wanting to start slapping some sense into a few of them.

It is a wonder if they will survive once old man Phelps bites the big one (he's getting up there), but unfortunately even some of the younger teens in the group are just as hateful. They are pretty much the closest thing we have right now to a modern day hate group in this country, but at least aren't following the path (as of yet) of the more tenured hate groups like the KKK, Black Panthers, and other supremacy groups. Sometimes you wonder if it is only a matter of time, but I think with the way equality is spreading the country they are becoming more and more irrelevant. Of course, does that mean we are just setting up for a "cornered cat" scenario where they will get desperate? Hopefully not.

One of the members, not of the Phelps family, got kicked out. She's trying to make some money from time spent with them by writing a book called, "Banished - Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church."