Jacqui Smith Bans Gay Hate Preachers
WO American hate preachers were banned tonight from entering Britain by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.
Extremist Christian leaders Fred Phelps and daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper had planned to jet into the UK to protest against a play being put on by a gay youth group on Friday. The fanatics are both members of the US Westboro Baptist Church – a sick sect which calls for homosexuals to be killed and CELEBRATES soldiers’ deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Phelps, 79, and his daughter Shirley, 51, had targeted a performance of The Laramie Project, about the death of an American man killed for being gay.
They had boasted they would picket the play, due to be held at a school arts centre in Basingstoke, Hampshire. But the pair will now be stopped by immigration officials on arrival and placed straight on a flight back to the US.
Home Office sources said other church members could also be flagged and stopped if they tried to enter Britain.
The ban comes after Dutch MP Geert Wilders was barred from the UK last week for his extremist views on Islam.
The Westboro Baptist Church, based in Kansas, US, has been dubbed “the most evil religious sect in the world” and was exposed in 2007 by TV documentary-maker Louis Theroux. Its members, mostly Phelps family relatives, regularly picket funerals of US war heroes, claiming their deaths are punishment for America’s tolerance of gays.
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February 19th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Personally i think this is a great step forward in the continuing battle against hate crime. What makes me chuckle about these people who claim to be speaking on behalf of God is that not only did their God create Gay people but it appears that there are more Gay Preists, Revrons etc than there are straight!
While i do have some spritual beliefs i’ve never really felt comfortable with Christianity because there are too many contridictions with the religion. I personally believe that God, no matter which religion you subscribe to, created Homosexuality to combat the every increasing over population. Additionally it has been proved time and time again that Homosexuality is not a Human trait but more of a Mamal trait because it also exists within the animal kingdom.
Times have changed considerably over the last 100 years. I still cannot believe that at one point is was common practice to treat people with black/brown skin as not only lesser people but they were also slaves to white people. I thank God that i was not around during that time.
Hate crime, whether it be gender, sexuality or skin colour orientated is still a massive problem despite the advances in society and people like Fred Phelps and daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper have a lot to answer to. I wonder how long it will be until one of their family members ‘come out’, one of their children perhaps?…How will they deal with that?
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has made a massive step forward in making the decision she made and I for one congratulate her. I can only hope that over the next 100 years that all people are treated equally, no matter what their skin colour, background or sexual orientation