New York Painter Satirizes Westboro Baptist Church Leaders In Painting

Los Angeles Times:

Leaders of the ultra-conservative Westboro Baptist Church have repeatedly skirted the law by maintaining a legal distance while picketing military funerals. This weekend, a New York artist attempted to beat the church at its own game by creating a satirical painting of Pastor Fred Phelps Sr. across the street from the organization's headquarters in Kansas.

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Comments

[cloudmaker]

09:24 AM on 04/25/2011

Ah, the power of art.

[normalintexas]

09:40 PM on 04/21/2011

Wonderful! Now, there's a man with principles. Thank you Mr. LoBaido.

[Smithn]

09:18 PM on 04/21/2011

WOW! What a creative counter protest idea! Mt thanks go to Scott LoBaido for the extra effort.

[GatorAtLarge]

04:09 PM on 04/21/2011

Great! One more jobless attention seeker.

[robear6987]

03:09 PM on 04/21/2011

the westbough church is not christ like . they do not practice tolerance , they do not practice forgivness, they do not practice love. they are in league with the devil and are no better than the musiim extemist who threaten this country and have held it in fear for the last 12 years while we elect a musilim president, yes he is musilim, check out his tv interviews while he was a senator. watch all of them . HE IS MUSILIM .

[lakabux]

04:05 PM on 04/21/2011

A couple of points:
A) The term is "Muslim", not "musilim".
B) You need to get back on your meds.
3) Even if Obama has been a secret Muslim all these years: Who cares?

[BuckyJamesDio]

04:30 PM on 04/21/2011

I like turtles.

[lakabux]

06:07 PM on 04/21/2011

Perfect answer.

ummm...

Mutant ninja or choklit?

[Joe Rizoli]

03:51 AM on 04/21/2011

How can this comment make sense:

"Leaders of the ultra-conservative Westboro Baptist Church have repeatedly skirted the law by maintaining a legal distance while picketing military funerals"

They didn't "skirt" any law they obeyed the law...........The article says that they were "maintaining a legal distance while picketing military funerals"

I actually enjoy the WBC and their protest. The group represents true Constitutional guarantees that protect EVERY ONE of us. To censor them means YOU will be censored the day YOU need to tell the world YOUR opinions or beliefs.

Remember:
The principle of free thought, as Holmes famously wrote, is "not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought we hate."

http://www.america.gov/st/democracyhr-english/2008/June/20080630212514eaifas0.1354945.html

Joe Rizoli
CCFIILE.com

[robear6987]

03:11 PM on 04/21/2011

they are dumbasses with no respect for the dead or thier mourning families and so are you for speaking up for a worthless godless church.

[Joe Rizoli]

11:58 PM on 04/21/2011

Hey robear8987, I post with my full name. I am not a coward like you. As to the WBC, this is the USA if you don't like freedom of speech and the Constitutional protections we have as Americans you can move to Israel.

Joe Rizoli

[michiganguy586]

03:41 PM on 04/21/2011

with all the constitutional guarantees that went out the window from the "patriot act", as far as im concerned they can add religious groups protesting at funerals to the list as well, i dont need that one and im pretty sure no else does as well.

[wonderboy69]

08:40 PM on 04/20/2011

This is beautiful! That painting is up for bid on e-bay now

[margarets opinion]

01:44 PM on 04/20/2011

Hay!!! It's times like this when I'm REALLY proud to be an artist! We are expected to nail it sometimes, or most of the time! He did it! Good for him! If I lived down there, I'd join him with another painting for the occasion. Join him, all artists down there!

[eskeeemo]

01:36 PM on 04/20/2011

LOVE it! People need to attend their church on EASTER Sunday, satnd at the leagl distance, and hold up signs saying "God Hates Haters!" and "God loves F*Gs more than he Loves FAKE Christians"! I SOOO wish I could!!

[PolitiConservative]

02:27 PM on 04/20/2011

People may want to attend their own church on Easter and remember what the day celebrates.

[eskeeemo]

05:25 PM on 04/20/2011

I don't need to go to church for that.

[GraphicMatt]

12:55 PM on 04/20/2011

NICE!

[Don Giovanni]

12:44 PM on 04/20/2011

Mo' Betta!

[Aj Sol]

10:17 AM on 04/20/2011

Fred Phelps, the original Teabagger

[Vinnster]

02:10 PM on 04/21/2011

Fred Phelps ran for major office in Kansas as a Democrat no less than four times. He ran for governor on the Democrat ballot in 1990, 1994 and 1998 and for senator in 1992. Phelps received 11,000 votes, or seven percent, in 1990, he received 5,000 votes, or three percent, in 1994 and he picked up 15,000 votes, or 15 percent, in 1998. And in the senatorial contest in 1992 he garnered 49,000 votes, or 30 percent. Phelps furthermore ran as a Democrat candidate for mayor of Topeka in 1993 and 1997.

Phelps also has been closely associated with Al Gore on several occasions throughout Gore’s career – Phelps’ son Fred, Jr. was a Gore delegate at the 1988 Democrat convention and the Phelpses hosted a Gore fundraiser in Topeka that year. Phelps claims that Westboro members “ran” Gore’s 1988 campaign in Kansas.

Phelps may not fit within the typical definition of “Democrat activist” some of our readers expect – but a six-time Democrat candidate is an activist Democrat. That is quite clear, as unknown to the public as it might be.

[Jim Pasterczyk]

04:36 AM on 04/20/2011

Good, but don't expect them to play clean in fighting back.

[HockeyGirl74]

09:44 AM on 04/20/2011

Exactly, but I don't think many of us expect them to ever play clean.

[Musiker]

12:32 AM on 04/20/2011

Why Fred and Shirley...looking marvelous, dahlings!

[ydnas639]

05:21 AM on 04/20/2011

He is a gifted artist. He has truly captured the essential miasma of the Phelps duo.

[BuckyJamesDio]

04:34 PM on 04/21/2011

Faved for the use of the word "miasma".

Oh, what the heck - fanned too. Why not? Why the heII not? It's Thursday!