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Westboro Idiots Lie About Protesting Whitney Houston's Funeral
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Christopher Robbins
Published Feb 18, 2012
Modified Feb 19, 2012
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The whiny, bigoted, inbred members of the Westboro Baptist Church are infamous for picketing military funerals to prove some point about pushing the boundaries of the First Amendment, because that's what their Jesus would want, or something. But today, they broke the Ninth Commandment when Margie Phelps, the daughter of church founder Fred Phelps, tweeted a photo purporting to show the church's protest in front of Whitney Houston's funeral in Newark. However, reporters for the Star-Ledger "confirmed no active protests were occurring in the place depicted by the photograph."
If only there was a God to smite these people, and smite them good. We also approve of this new, if lazy, proxy-protesting strategy: keep practicing your Photoshop skills and leave people to bury their loved ones in peace.
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Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins is a New York City reporter covering transportation, affordable housing, local politics, and criminal justice. His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Village Voice and The New York Times. Chris is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke, Virginia, and enjoys biking to Fort Tilden in the summertime.
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