Bikers descended on the town of Newtown yesterday and linked arms blocking the hate group protesters of Westboro Baptist Church from disrupting the funerals. (Free Republic)

Conservative bikers turned out yesterday to protect Newtown mourners from Democrat Fred Phelps and his Westboro cult from protesting.
The Cochrane Times reported:


Bikers seem to have thwarted attempts by the Westboro Baptist Church to protest the funeral of Newtown, Conn., shooting victim Principal Dawn Hochsprung.

The vocal right-wing Christian group, whose website is godhatesfags.com, produced a video called “God Sent the Shooter,” and has blamed the massacre on gay marriage. It put Hochsprung’s funeral on its online “picket schedule.”

But there was no sign of the church group, as local newspaper the Newtown Patch live-blogged throughout the day with updates, and reported that people had arrived from as far away as Massachusetts to protect the mourners — just in case.

Bikers from New York formed a formidable-looking wall of motorcyles.

Late in the day the Patch wrote: “Applause erupted in the crowd … as it was announced that members of the Westboro Baptist Church were not coming to protest at the wake.”

(GP Correction: Fred Phelps is not a “rightwinger”, he’s a Democrat. And the Westboro Church is not a Christian group – It is a sick cult.)

It is well known that Fred Phelps has run for office as a Democrat several times.
Shame on the Cochrane Times for labeling him rightwing!

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/12/...-westboro-cult/

"right wing Christian group"! How dare they! What the hell do they think is "right-wing" about them? Seriously?

It's harder to deny the "Christian" label, since they do claim to be that, but "right-wing". What the heck?

They aren't "right wing". They are Al Gore loving and supporting DEMOCRATS! Fred Phelps ran for statewide public office as a democrat and was a delegate for Al Gore.

The media makes me so furious when they call them Baptist, plus the nuts are labeled "right wing." GRRRR......

Quote: steph wrote in post #3

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They aren't "right wing". They are Al Gore loving and supporting DEMOCRATS! Fred Phelps ran for statewide public office as a democrat and was a delegate for Al Gore.

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This just fries my bacon. The vocal right-wing Christian group

As others have noted that pos Phelps was a Gore supporter and ran for political office as a Dem.

A pristine example of how propaganda and character assassination are spread as only the informed such as you find on Forums like this know the facts about Phelps, but not your average reader. The person who wrote that is a poltroon and a damned liar.
(pardon my language as I rarely use profanity but sometimes the things I see make me just so angry)

God Bless those Bikers !!