Corona Del Mar High School in Newport Beach, California, is hosting an out of state religious group and at the same time putting on a musical, that was decried by some in the community and defended by the ACLU. The idea of putting on the popular musical production at the upscale public school had been put forward several months ago and then shelved when a small contingent of parents objected, saying that the singing and dancing in the musical, “Rent” , might cause rampant homosexuality to ripple through the student body. The ACLU filed suit to allow the play to be presented as planned and Superior Court Judge Henry Ballsach ruled for the students. “The school district failed to prove that homosexuality is caused by Broadway musicals,” said Ballsach. The ruling had a far reaching effect as congregants from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, immediately boarded buses and headed west. “God hates fags, said church founder, Fred Phelps, and we’re all about hate.” Interviewed on a chartered bus as it lurched across the Great Plains, Phelps went on to say that God hates lesbians who are “opposite fags” as well as Muslims, Jews, tall buildings and frozen yogurt. “God hates you, he said to Newfield Plains reporter, Adam Goldman, and he hates your newspaper. He hates your mother, your father and all your siblings.” When asked if God also hates the Westboro Church, Phelps looked surprised. “Of course He does. And he also hates me. He hates Disneyland, the Department of Motor Vehicles, Congress and Westinghouse refrigerators”. Goldman pointed out that there were several passages in the Bible about Jesus and love but was interrupted by the increasingly agitated Phelps. “God hates the Bible, he shouted, and he hates Jesus and Adam West who portrayed Batman in that TV series. He really, really hates Batman”.
God Hates Fags and Newport Beach
