Elizabeth Taylor’s funeral to be defaced by Westboro Baptist Church
[HMG Celebrity News] – When the news broke yesterday that Elizabeth Taylor had left us most people felt sad at her loss. But the Westboro Baptist Church saw a PR opportunity and now plan to picket her funeral.
Just minutes after the news of Elizabeth’s death was released Megan Phelps posted this message on Twitter:
“Actress Elizabeth Taylor has died,” it reads. “Used every gift she had to teach a generation to be proud whores. WBC will picket her funeral.”
Most people would be rightly repulsed by the merest idea of a gaggle of press-seeking simpletons protesting a service, but friends of the actress are ready for a fight.
“Bring it on!” one friend tells PopEater. “Elizabeth spent her whole life fighting for what’s right, and it looks like it will be no different now she’s gone.”
The reason the Church’s vast congregation of just 71 people are plotting this repulsive sideshow is Ms. Taylor’s support of AIDS research. The disease claimed her great friend Rock Hudson in 1985 and she was an fervent support of research from then on. But the Church does not approve.
“The only thing that would sadden Elizabeth is she wasn’t around to fight the ignorance and hate that still exists,” the friend says. “But she needn’t worry – We have all her friends and family to continue her work.”
The Kansas-based Church has picketed more than 800 funerals, including those of soldiers killed in the Iraq war, and their protests are sprinkled with banners carrying slogans like “Thank God For Dead Soldiers” and “God Hates You.” But despite the alleged plot to attend Ms. Taylor’s farewell her friends are showing restraint.
“Elizabeth would be first to acknowledge that freedoms don’t just exist when it’s convenient,” another friend tells the scribes. “But we have a voice, too. Don’t get angry, get even. The best way to oppose these people is to make a donation to Elizabeth’s AIDS Foundation.”[Which you can do right here.]
This boycott must rank among the most boundlessly offensive and self-serving ideas ever formed by a sentient mind. The Church recently won a Supreme Court case over their first amendment right to offend people like this, but what do you think of their plan?…
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Elizabeth Taylor’s funeral to be defaced by Westboro Baptist Church