Fuck those sick bastards! These warped, brain-fried, bible freaks need to be wiped off the face of the earth, pronto. It makes me sick that those worthless and disgusting excuses for human beings have no other way to express themselves but beating down on a man who can't defend himself. I despise the WBC and I really have no respect for them. If you're religious, that is your thing. Belive in it. But keep it to yourself and don't harass others with your views. I am in no way a religious man. I'm an atheist but I think if there Is a god, I highly doubt that he would approves of this. However, if he does and those brain-dead morons are actually right i'd much rather hang out in hell with Dio than in Heaven with thoses brutes. I would really like to fly to the USA just so that I can take one of their stupid "God hates Fags" sign and beat in their heads with it.WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH To Picket RONNIE JAMES DIO's Public Memorial Service? - May 20, 2010
According to the official web site of the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) — an independent Baptist church and hate group known for its hatred of homosexuals and its protest activities (which include picketing funerals) — WBC is planning on picketing Ronnie James Dio's public memorial service on Sunday, May 30 at 2:00 p.m. at The Hall Of Liberty located at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills, 6300 Forest Lawn Drive, Los Angeles, California. What will presumably one of WBC's standard "peaceful sidewalk demonstrations" is meant to "remind you who worship that old Serpent, Satan, that your time is very short," according to a post on the "Upcoming Picket Schedule" page of the web site. The post continues, "You know 67 year old, Satan-worshiping (or at least one of their enablers) Ronnie James Dio (of showing his devil horns to the world each time he goes in public) BLACK SABBATH fame is dead, right? We'll be there! Just because the chances of any of God's elect being amongst this group of heavy metal sycophants is slim to none does not mean they should not get some good words."
The post goes on to say, "Yes, it is true that Ozzy Osbourne did 'accidentally' bite off the head of a bat, but THAT is the least of their sins (little nasties!), they currently do not do that, but they throw raw meat to the audience and encourage violence of EVERY FORM!"
The WBC web site then proceeds to list "admitted sins of this now dead and in hell pervert: 1) He hates his neighbor(s) starting with Ozzy Osbourne, and continuing down to his pornography star niece Gen Padova! 2) He hates God. Pay especial attention to the fact that he changed his original sir name from Padova to Dio, which means God in Italian. 3) Ronnie the simpleton enabled, and encouraged Sorceries: everything he was about including the little finger horn thing (he got this from his mother which is an incantation to ward off the 'evil eye') to the drugs, bloody raw meat and his fellowship with those pentagon necklace wearing freakish band members."
The post concludes: "Yes, Ronnie James Padova (NOT DIO) is currently residing in hell. When all those who worship him and his false gods meet him in hell it will be just like this: Isaiah 2:12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low: Isaiah 14:11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. Praise God all ye, His people. The Great Day of the Lord draws nigh. AMEN!"
According to CNN.com, the members of the Topeka, Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church filed a legal brief with the high court last year indicating that they "believe it is their duty to protest and picket at certain events, including funerals, to promote their religious message: 'That God's promise of love and heaven for those who obey him in this life is counterbalanced by God's wrath and hell for those who do not obey him.'"
The congregation is made up mostly of pastor Fred Phelps and his family. The pastor has 13 children, and at least 54 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren. He described himself as an "old-time" gospel preacher in a CNN interview in 2006, saying, "You can't preach the Bible without preaching the hatred of God."
For more information on the Westboro Baptist Church, read this entire CNN.com article from June 2009.
[bBut we shouldn't do that. WBC are scam artists. The wife and several other members are actual lawyers. They stir shit any way possible (as long as it is legal) and wait for random people to threaten, attack, or silence them so that they can drag them into the court room and sue the living shit out of them. Then, any money they win in lawsuits goes directly to their "church", which is a close knit group of people, and is therefore tax exempt. They want us to react. And as much as I'd like to rip their heads off and shove it right down their rectums, the best way to deal with them is ignoring them. This funeral will probably get a decent amount of media attention and if a large group of metalheads would suddenly go balistic on those sick fucks not only would they actually do exactly what the WBC wants them to do, they would also strengthen the stereotype of the dysfunctional metalhead who can't slove any problems without using voilence. So ignore them. Shelter them off the whole funreal and don't attack or threaten them. Because this would be exactly what they want you to do.