Westboro Baptist Church calls Charlie Daniels a fat pervert; AKSARBENT covers its mouth and laughs

The Iowa Independent is reporting that Shirley Phelps-Roper of the Westboro "God Hates Fags" Baptist Church just got the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals to strike down a Nebraska law aimed at keeping demonstrators away from funeral or memorial services.

Today’s ruling reverses an earlier one by U.S. District Court Judge Laurie Smith Camp, who ruled the Nebraska law struck a compromise that both protected family and friends attending services and allowed free speech for the Westboro picketers.

The suit and appeal were filed by Shirley Phelps-Roper, a daughter of Fred Phelps. The Westboro organization has several military funeral service pickets planned as well as a protest against the Joplin High School football team (to remind them God sent the tornado) and “fat pervert” country music singer Charlie Daniels for his support of fallen soldiers and America.

8th Circuit Court of Appeals: Phelps-Roper v. Troutman, et al


Obviously, unlike AKSARBENT, WBC dislikes septuagenarian country star Charlie Daniels because he isn't homophobic enough but we liked what it said about his fans:

"We will warn his hell-bound fans (who consist primarily of violent, delusional bikers, veterans, and “Christians”) at his Missouri concert."

AKSARBENT wonders if Shirley Phelps-Roper wrote the the following description on one of WBC's web pages herself. (We omitted WBC's obligatory fag-bashing but you can see it here.)

[Charlie]Daniels lives in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, but around the pagan holidays he goes to his home in Durango, Colorado, to play in the snow. While in Colorado, in January 2010 God gave him a stroke. He recovered, and ran his big mouth about “the fingerprints of God” being all over that event, because there was a drug available and a life flight helicopter to address the medical crisis...

     Daniels worships the military. He has a "soapbox" page on the Charlie Daniels Band Website, where he holds forth his flag-worshiping religion... He jumps on politicians who don’t kiss enough military ass, like in 2004 criticizing Bush for statements about John Kerry’s service record. He criticized Obama for changing from "war on terror" to "overseas contingency operation."

How nice for Charlie Daniels that WBC exists. Otherwise the GEICO advertising mascot's own mass media queer baiting* might be in sharper relief...
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*About gay-unfriendly GEICO: In its advertising, GEICO has recently featured Charlie Daniels, whose 1973 smash "Uneasy Rider" inundated top 10 airwaves with the epithet "fags" (skip to 3:17 here.) Daniels' sequel, "Uneasy Rider '88" featured lyrics like the following:

But this funny looking feller kept coming on
And he was making me mad with some of the things he said
Then he put his hand on my knee
I said if you don't get your paw off me
I'm gonna locate your nose around
The other side of your head

In April [of 2010], GEICO fired gay Voice-over actor Lance Baxter, aka D.C. Douglas, best known for his "save up to 15%" tags on GEICO commercials, after a voicemail he left for Dick Armey's  FreedomWorks was widely circulated in the right-wing blogosphere. (Rule #1: If your voice is on commercials heard by millions of people, use email, not voicemail, when you're pissed off.) Baxter was incensed by what he considered to be rampant racism and homophobia among Tea Party members. Baxter's home phone number was posted on Andrew Breitbart's Big Government website.