ONE OF THEIR "CHRISTIAN" MESSAGES

Another of their "Christian" inspirational messages
SOURCE-"But
an attorney for Westboro Baptist on Thursday said the parody, "God Hates the
World," is protected under First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and
religious expression. She said the church intends to keep the video posted on
its Web site."

Further on in the article...

"It is the latest incident bringing attention to Westboro Baptist and its
leader, Pastor Fred Phelps Sr., and their ongoing campaign against
homosexuality. On its Web site, Fox News described the song parody as a "new
outrage."

The church argues that soldiers' deaths in Iraq and
Afghanistan are God's punishment for the U.S. tolerating homosexuality. The
video parody says "God hates the world and all her people" because of their
wickedness.

"It's all our religious doctrine," said Shirley
Phelps-Roper, church attorney and daughter of the pastor. "It's our religious
preachment. It's all our effort to deliver a faithful message to this
generation."



But Warner/Chappel Music Inc. in Los Angeles views the video as infringing on
the copyright it administers for "We Are the World." The song raised money for
famine relief that led to a video featuring some of American music's biggest
stars, including Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder and Bruce Springsteen.

"According to our records, no request has been made to use
the composition, no authorization has been granted nor has any license been
issued for the use of the composition on the Web site," Kelly Isenberg, the
company's director of legal and business affairs, wrote in a May 8 letter to the
Topeka church.

Her letter demanded the church stop using the parodied
song "in any manner" and issue a statement under oath that the song "will not be
exploited in any manner whatsoever" without prior written permission.

Isenberg wasn't available for comment in her Los Angeles
office and didn't return a telephone message from The Associated Press.

The parody follows the "We Are the World" video's format
of showing a group of singers — Westboro Baptist members — in front of a
microphone. The rewritten lyrics include, "You are all a part of the devil's
family and the truth, you're all headed straight to hell!"

(And, a final note in the article)

"Westboro Baptist's picketing of troops' funerals led Congress and 34 states,
including Kansas, to enact laws attempting to restrict such protests."

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Lest we forget exactly who the Westboro Baptist "fine"
parishioners are, their primary website is "
http://www.godhatesfags.com ".

Look, I am not ruling on the copyright infringement aspect of this article or on
the merits of any case, but sometimes, the old CodeWarrior has personal opinions
(yes, shock, horror, surprise) and my personal opinion of the actions of the
people from "Westboro Baptist", for what they have done at the funerals of our
soldiers who bravely gave their lives in this insane useless thing in Iraq being
called a "war", is that they are a bunch of retards who seriously have way too
much time on their hands. Just having a website called "GodHatesFags.com" shows
how seriously off track their minds are, and in my opinion, their moral compass
is spinning like a top...and has a big red "TILT" sign on it.

You KNOW someone is seriously in the wrong when I am
almost tempted to side with Warner Music against them (insert laughter here).

By the way, Fred Waldron Phelps,Sr, the "pastor", and Whoopi Goldberg (real name Caryn Johnson) were both born on November 13...Also born 11-13:
1941 Dack (Norman) Rambo (actor)
1938 Jean Seberg (actress)
1934 Garry Marshall (producer, director, actor)
1932 Richard Mulligan (actor)
1924 Linda Christian (actress)
1922 Oskar Werner (Josef Schliessmayer) (actor)
1922 Madeleine Sherwood (actress)
1916 Jack Elam (actor)
1913 Alexander Scourby (actor)
1856 Louis Brandeis (supreme court judge)
1850 Robert Louis Stevenson (author)
1833 Edwin Booth (actor) brother of Lincoln Assassin John Wilkes Booth

so much for astrology!

To Westboro Baptist, GET A LIFE !

~Code

This song may be parody, but from what I have been hearing form the local media (yes, I do live in Topeka, but don't hold that against me) they are using the original music to "We are the World." If so, and they didn't clear the rights to use the music, would they not be in violation of copyright of the music composer? Generally, when a mainstream artist does a cover of a song, they have to clear the use, and pay a fee to ASCAP, to get the rights to perform the song. Even Wierd Al, in his parodies, seeks clearance for the songs that he uses (and yes, he has tried to get the use rights to at least one song by Prince, and been told no).

While the RIAA may be be completely evil (which I do agree with) in this case, they are doing exactly what they should be, and moving to protect an actual violation of the law (to be determined in court), and not a precieved violation.

Maybe they can do what the City of Topeka has never been able to do, beat the cult in court.

If the background music (the actual sound recording) belongs to Warner, they have a case, but if Westboro Baptist recorded it themselves, Warner can't do much about it.

Parody is protected free-speech, even when the parodist is unpopular, evil, or plain nuts.

The WBC and their "spawn" are just a bunch of lawyers who will come protest funerals of dead soldiers, dead gay people, dead students, dead dogs, anything to get their sick twisted agenda in the press. They want counter-protesters to hurt them in any way so they can sue the pants off the city that they're in. Anyway, if ASCAP sues, they may counter-sue or just call them fags and tell them they're going to hell!

OK, I'll stop now...

i don't like those people either but whats the saying the enemy of my enemy is my friend. or something like that. either way if they start opposing riaa then that adds to the numbers against riaa and that could be good.

or they could show up to protest at the wrong funeral someday and someone might take it personally.....

--"It's our religious
preachment. It's all our effort to deliver a faithful message to this
generation."--

Let me ask this... faith in WHAT per se? These people say god hates the world, so what is there to have faith in? I hate to tell them, but they're part of the world... unless they're space aliens... which I'm willing to grant.

"These people say god hates the world."

Ha, ha, what Bible are these nuts reading? Last I checked, God created the world and He loves all the beings He created.

I'd side with Warner in this one. Knowing these people, if Warner sues, then they'll set up shop outside Warner's headquarters and spout off about how Warner allows "evil" lyrics in its music, "evil" images in their movies and TV shows and "evil" words in their publications.

Wait, isn't Warner the studio that releases the Harry Potter films? If that's the case, then we're all in for a big 'ol stupid fest with these nutjobs.

The Westboro Church sincerely believe in their calling. That pastor has believed that and lived it for over 50 odd years. (Take note, that terrorists also strongly believe in their calling)

After rummaging through their website, the one thing that kept leaping out at me, is that they are cold and have NO Love.Pretty hard to preach love if you can't feel it yourself, and only through Christ can we achieve that in our hearts.

If you walk up to someone who is living in sin and hammer them on the head that God hates them and they are going to hell...that is the sure fire way to turn people against God moreso..and the Bible calls these people a Clanging Cymbal! Something to avoid altogether.

As far as the copyright issue goes, what Mike says is true. You can put a popular tune onto any web site as long as it's not the orginal.....so I'm hoping the people here are not siding with the riaa (gasp!) just because it's from some perceived crazy Christians....

If one of these hatemongers were to come near me with a sign preaching thank God for AIDS or that God kills American soldiers, or other nonsense, I might have to deck 'em (of course making sure they hit me first) .

Of course, after knocking them unconscious, I would have to turn the other cheek .

"The Westboro Church sincerely believe in their calling."

All dangerous lunatics and serial killers believe in their "calling"...but apparently, whomever is calling is a wrong number.

http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/7603772.html
New Hampshire may be the latest state to ban demonstrations near funerals after a visit from Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church.

State lawmakers added the ban to an unrelated bill and a public hearing is scheduled for Thursday.

Members of the church picketed in the center of Hampstead, New Hampshire, last month.

The ban would be similar to a national law that requires demonstrators to remain at least 500 feet away from mourners in national cemeteries.

A national group says at least 32 states, including Kansas, have enacted laws restricting funeral protests.

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God Hates Jerry Falwell? Westboro Church Thinks So
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,273340,00.html
"The highly controversial church, Westboro Baptists of Topeka, Kan., plans to "preach" at the funeral of Rev. Jerry Falwell, in the same way they do for military funerals.

On the church's website, Godhatesamerica.com, it says it will preach at the "memorial service of the corpulent false prophet Jerry Falwell, who spent his entire life prophesying lies and false doctrines like 'God loves everyone.'"

The 70-member church, led by the Rev. Fred Phelps, has protested the military funerals of U.S. troops, believing that their deaths are God's punishment for America's tolerance of homosexuality."

A FAIR USE usage of a quote from
WWW.GODHATESAMERICA.COM
"WBC will Preach at Jerry Falwell's Funeral!!


WBC will preach at the memorial service of the corpulent false prophet Jerry Falwell, who spent his entire life prophesying lies and false doctrines like "God loves everyone".

There is little doubt that Falwell split Hell wide open the instant he died. The evidence is compelling, overwhelming, and irrefragable. To wit:

1. Falwell was a true Calvinistic Baptist when he was a young preacher in Springfield, Missouri, and sold his soul to Free-Willism (Arminianism) for lucre.

2. Falwell bitterly and viciously attacked WBC because of WBC's faithful Bible preaching -- thereby committing the unpardonable sin -- otherwise known as the sin against the Holy Ghost.

3. Falwell warmly praised Christ-rejecting Jews, pedophile-condoning Catholics, money-grubbing compromisers, practicing fags like Mel White, and backsliders like Billy Graham and Robert Schuler, etc. All for lucre -- making him guilty of their sins.


Falwell is in Hell, Praise God!!



America, Cursed of God"
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lol.... I think they have the Anti-Christ confused with Jesus. They are the Church of Hate...well, you sew what ye shall reap.

These crackpots do a disservice to Christianity.