Junk Activism

I shake my head:

The women were identified as Laura Raquel Ramirez, 37, and Naida Villaverde, 41. One of them fainted from the heat and pain, said Blas Vera, one of the movement’s leaders.

lol.  Really?  Wusses.  Everyone knows Jesus could do it.

Several men heaved the crosses on their shoulders and bore the women through Asuncion, joining dozens of other protesters.

Personally, if we’re going down that route, I prefer the Buddhist Monk style of self-immolation.  However, for a housing protest I think being nailed to a cross may be appropriate.  Obviously, we know what the inspiration is for this:

Nearly 90% of Paraguay’s 6 million citizens are Roman Catholic.

We are such sheep, always following the Media, doing what we see, reenacting the violence.  What is to blame for such violence and atrocity that these two women would subject themselves to?  Was it a video game?  Is it Mel Gibson’s “Passion of the Christ“?  Were these women reading The Bible again?  Or is it the Roman Catholic Church, which often depicts Christianity as a tortured carcass hanging from a cross?

Ah, my favorite Junk Activists of all time, the Westboro Baptist Church, has one again made the news. Their protests are always good times, but to say the least I’m pretty damn confused about the point of this one.

This time they’ve turned their attentions to Portland State University to spread their message of God-fueled hatred protest Portland’s gender neutral potties.

I always thought that the only reason we have seperate bathrooms to begin with is because each gender pisses on the seat in their own way and the other doesn’t want to deal with it….and maybe Portland doesn’t care who’s making a mess anymore.   Besides, don’t we all have “gender neutral” bathrooms in our homes?  It is sinful for a man to piss in a toilet instead of a urinal?  Is it wrong for a woman to piss where a man hath spilled thine urine?  Was that in the Book of Lavatory, Chapter 6, Verse 2?

All four of them show up to protest…well, we know “to get attention” is really why:

She [Libby Phelps],  seemed to be taking the melee in stride, even welcoming the counter-protests’ attention. “I love it! It’s awesome,” she said, with a kind of giddy glee. “This is my favorite part, I love it when people come and block my sign, it’s awesome. Cause it draws so much more attention over here, and so people come over and look and be like, oh what’s the big the big fuss over there? And they’ll come over and look.”

Um, yes, it’s so much fun to travel to Oregon to get blocked, laughed at, and publicly ridiculed by a large number of peaceful Portlanders.

To Westboro Church: Kudos you on the awesome scam you’ve organized to raise funds, travelling the country to perform rainbow-flag-stomping antics.  Is this from selling M&Ms in front of the grocery store or is it Church tithing?  There is an outlet for your kind.  It’s called Jerry Springer. A perfect place for those of us who respond to our lesser indulgences of ignorance and violence.  You’ll find the perfect concoction of trash to inspire fans and violence.  Important side Note: You can throw chairs at people, too.  And I hope they throw them back.  It will make me “LOL” and “WTF”.

And thanks for the link to my site.  Please send more visitors my way, I like the attention…you know what it’s like.

Yesterday I wrote about the obnoxious hicks from Westboro Church in Kansas driving hundreds of miles to protest a high school performance of The Laramie Project. The high school staff deemed it necessary to close down the school for a day, probably fearing most the students preparing to whoop some Kansas hick ass.

To the students of Scott County: don’t think you’re getting out of learning something today just because you’re waking up at 12pm and playing video games.  Here is my lesson for you:  Everyone wants a day off of school and you’ve gotten firsthand experience in how to achieve that goal.

Perform a controversial play that inspires homophobia and a band of hateful hicks from the Midwest will come to protest……. and you will get 1 FREE DAY OUT OF CLASS!  No more need for snow days, just lure the morons to the front of your school with a few “fag” and “hell” signs.

Oh, yeesh.  The Westboro Church will once again dish out their hatred and homophobia, this time aiming at a Detroit high school for performing “The Laramie Project”.

If you’re not sure who Westboro Church is, they’re arguably the most perfect example of “Junk Activism”.  In fact, if “Junk Activism” ever makes it into the dictionary, it should have a picture of a Westboro Church protest. Expect me to write about them frequently…

The message is this: God hates us all (but especially Jews, Muslims, gays, and soldiers) and he’s wrecking his vengeance on the world for all of the evil in it by allowing/causing every mortal reality for humanity.

They go to the funerals of dead soldiers to tell their parents that their kids went to hell.  They pray and thank god publicly when someone dies of AIDS or gets a gay beatdown.  God gets credit for it all and they’re spreading His Word in the loudest, most offensive way possible.  Sort of like the KKK of Christianity.

From UPI.com: “‘The Laramie Project’ has a function — it’s to teach rebellion,” Phelps-Roper said.

Sort of like how a fringe hate group will drive hundreds of miles to protest homosexuality outside of a high school.  Other churches won’t even associate with you, dude.  Aren’t you teaching rebellion?