
Margie J. Phelps, daughter of Westboro Baptist Church pastor Fred Phelps, tweets that Westboro Baptist will picket the funeral of Apple Co-founder Steve Jobs because of his opposition to California's Prop 8, which sought to ban same-sex marriage. Ironically, and some would say hypocritically, she informed the public via Twitter from her iPhone!
This is the epitome of hypocrisy.
I typically don’t report on the idiots at Westboro Baptist Church, but a recent tweet caught my eye.
Margie J. Phelps, one of the 13 children of hatemongering pastor of Westboro Baptist Church, Fred Phelps, recently tweeted that Westboro would be picketing the funeral of Steve Jobs because Apple contributed money to help defeat California’s Proposition 8, which sought to ban same sex marriage. She tweeted:
Westboro will picket his funeral.He had a huge platform; gave God no glory & taught sin. MT @
AP: Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has died at 56.
The fact that the douche bags at Westboro would picket Mr. Jobs’ funeral is not surprising. However, what makes the story brazenly hypocritical is that Phelps informed the public via Twitter from her iPhone!
And THAT made me smile.
Rest in peace, Mr. Jobs. Thank you for your life, your work, and for helping me to work harder, play better, and dream bigger.
HT: Joel Watts FB via Steve Lowe FB
UPDATE:
Gawker has the story.
Here’s a pic of the full context of her tweet:
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Bob,
do you think it even registers with them tat by their own delusional reasoning they are bought an iPhone and therefore are “supporting” the “sin” the picketing? or would they just yell louder?
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They’ll never get the chance: Jobs was buried last Friday.
no kidding: http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2011/10/steve-jobs-buried-after-private-funeral