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Westboro Church Will Protest Jobs’ Funeral, Uses iPhone to Make Announcement

Posted: October 6, 2011

Westboro Baptist Church Steve Jobs

You can add awesome computers, music-changing iPods and revolutionary iPhones to the list of things God apparently hates according to the hate-spewing Westboro Baptist Church.

The outfit- headed up by prejudice-monger Fred Phelps and daughter Megan- has made a name for itself by harassing grieving families in their darkest hour, with practices like picketing the funerals of dead US soldiers with signs reading “Thank God for IEDs.” It’s clear there is no true biblical basis for their hatred, and anyone could see their behavior is directly contrary to the teachings of Christ. Their selection of any high profile deceased person is painfully obvious with news of their newest target- Apple founder Steve Jobs.

The outpouring of grief over the loss of Jobs at 56 is a testament to how valued his contribution to technology truly is. (Note: I am typing this on a MacBook.) Jobs was not known for any sort of embrace of sin or even general unpleasantness, but that hasn’t stopped the Westboro Baptist Church in their plans to intrude on his family’s grief with one of their vulgar demonstrations.

Megan Phelps gleefully used Twitter to announce the hate group’s plans to picket Jobs’ funeral:

“Westboro will picket his funeral. He had a huge platform; gave God no glory and taught sin… No peace for man who served self, not God. Westboro must picket.”

With much class, Phelps appended the hashtag #hellgreetedhim to her tweets, but the kicker is that the hatemonger-in-training made the announcement to Twitter from her iPhone. So if Jobs is guilty of some amorphous sin for making our world a bit more connected, surely the Phelpses will be joining him in eternal torment for supporting his alleged sinful empire?

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31 Archived Responses to “ Westboro Church Will Protest Jobs’ Funeral, Uses iPhone to Make Announcement ”

  1. I thank Steve Jobs for the iPhone! I love it! It has turned my life around, it's so practical!!Plus I found some naughty applications for iPhone here, that make the most out of it: reviewz.tumblr.com

  2. Father, forgive them for they know NOT what they do.

  3. Anna Haddow
    Oct 6, 2011

    They has the ball to blast Mr Jobs, by using the iPhone how ignorant is that, and yes I agree with the prior post and I quote "Father, forgive them for they know NOT what they do" and bless them.

  4. Dumbasses

  5. People should go and block them from doing this crap, someone should organize a crowd so big that it would drown their horrible message!

  6. SERIOUSLY! WHAT A BUNCH OF IDIOTS! C'MON PEOPLE.

  7. Lisa M. Mitchell Jones
    Oct 6, 2011

    I'll tell you what God doesn't like: The confusion and the foolishness that these people continue to perpetuate! As long as they receive attention, they will keep doing what they do. I thank God for those folks who stand in the gap for the bereaved families while they seek comfort and closure in laying their loved ones to rest…

  8. Bella Solimar
    Oct 6, 2011

    Talk about serving self, isn't that what you are doing Fred and instilling in your daughter Megan! But I guess ignorance is true bliss! Cause this is a real cases of the blind leading the blind of heart! I know God your heart is big and we should turn the other cheek, but I know you hurt more when injustices of hatred are made In YOUR NAME! @ Douglas I Agree we should find away to boycott them! Apple should cut their Iphone services, if technology is so evil let us lead them into the dark ages!@ Megan Phelps you can stop your father's ignorance while you stil have time!

  9. How the hell do these nuts pretend to know what God likes and dislikes. Aren't they contradicting themselves with their foolish displaces of their OWN hatred? Get a life people!

  10. Mark Romines
    Oct 6, 2011

    Amen to the 2 sided face of our free to protest who ever you want church. I'm sure they have some type of restraining order to prevent anyone from protesting their church. So by this hate monger using her I-phone she will be eternally damned to servitude for the devil. And let's see if she gets protested against.

  11. IDIOTS! People like this give God a bad name. Do this in your name Fred and Megan not God.

  12. Marianne Decker Mccracken
    Oct 6, 2011

    DON'T WORRY THE WESTBORO CHURCH WILL GET THEIRS SOMEDAY WE REEP WHAT WE SOW!

  13. Why cant they just let this poor man rest in peace? Let his family grieve without theyre ridicioulous alligations and disturbances. At my church…My pastor goes for a run everyday with his IPOD….and I'm sure there are many others like him! I believe these people are just real bored, real uncaring, real STUPID. God bless Steve Jobs and the loved ones he left behind!

  14. And people wonder why I am an agnostic. It seems to me that I was always taught that Jesus said to love your enemies as yourself. These people would make Christ bow his head and pray for their salvation. Megan and Fred you do not serve the cause of Christ with your wild beliefs and hateful attitudes toward everything that you find personally offensive.

  15. Jim Sieferman
    Oct 6, 2011

    If I had Westboro Baptist Church as my only example of Christianity, I'd be an atheist, instead of the Christian that I am. I won't even call them idiots, because that would be an insult to idiots everywhere. I hope the Bikers show up & block them like they've done at Veteran's funerals. What a bunch of hate-mongers!

  16. Stephanie Orenstein Wiseman
    Oct 6, 2011

    That is why we have wars because of zealots like this. I agree, they should have no availability to any technology. And, really, how much more of a hypocrite can you be than to use an Iphone to convey this pure hatred. These people are NOT Christians.

  17. Judge not… least yes be judged…. where do these people get off? They are an embarrassment to not only Christians but decent people everywhere. Hatemongers are all they are.

  18. Send all of them from that "church" to Iraq. That would be hell on earth for them to prepare them for their end. How do people buy into this stuff, have they no mind of their own. All followers. Well they forgot we are to follow Jesus not what ever! I feel sorry for the people grieving. One day, these people will come across someone who goes up against them. Outcome? Bloodshed. Wonder who will come to their funeral? Please people get a life….before it is too late for you! I will keep them all in my prayers.

  19. They are a hate cult. They have no christian values whatsoever. They are the epitome of ignorance. I could go on and on, but they are not worth it.

  20. Westboro Baptist Church spreads its hate through picketing in our streets, provoking attacks, with abusive language and flag desecration, attempting to create a confrontation. This is not a church, this is a hate group. This is not about protesting, freedom, or God. They are in it for the money and the press; this is a family law firm. They are not a "church." It is a scam. They go after anything that can get them in the news. This is a family of lawyers using this “god hates you” thing to make money. It is time for this scam to end.

  21. Patti Briggs
    Oct 6, 2011

    Let's stone them!

  22. At bare min………………..

  23. Andrew Mike Chipka
    Oct 6, 2011

    Picket Steve Job's funeral; Use iPhone to announce it.

  24. Gavin Lipscomb
    Oct 6, 2011

    the fuck? they know exactly what they're doing. they've known for years. they do this shit intentionally. they're like real life trolls.

  25. Adam Ray
    Oct 7, 2011

    Teri, they don't "get off", thats the problem. If they spent a little more time loving they'd have less time for hate. I see them miraculously transforming. Lets accept them as they are and sit back and watch them change….I've already tried sending hate back to them. You know it doesn't work. :)

  26. shut the front door! I am a person of faith and this story and the actions of these people in God's name disgusts me. I don't get the purpose they think they are serving by spewing hate or the biblical basis for all of these cruel protests in Christ's name?