Westboro Baptist Church claims Hawaii will be 'utterly destroyed' Sunday
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Aug. 6 (UPI) -- The controversial Westboro Baptist Church , based in Kansas, claimed that Hawaii will be "utterly destroyed" on Sunday.
"The churches of Hawaii have doomed the inhabitants with lies about the eternal God," Westboro Baptist Church said in a statement announcing a protest at three churches in Hawaii. "The watchers must (and will) publicly pronounce the warning on Sunday."
The Westboro Baptist Church said its members will picket outside of Grace Bible Church and King's Cathedral in Kahului as well as Wailuku Union Church in Wailuku.
It was not immediately clear why the church would travel from Topeka to Maui to protest the three congregations or how the church believes Hawaii will be destroyed. UPI has reached out to the churches for comment.
Westboro has become well-known for its controversial protests. In 2012, the church said its members planned to picket Sandy Hook Elementary School where 28 people, including 20 children, were shot dead just days previously.
"Westboro will picket Sandy Hook Elementary School to sing praise to God for the glory of his work in executing his judgment," member Shirley Phelps-Roper said in 2012 before her Twitter account was hacked by Anonymous' Cosmo the God.
The hacker collective then posted private details about members of the church, which is best known for its long vitriol for LGBTQ+ issues.
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Ah Westboro, the Church of God Hates Fags. I believe the fellow with the pink sign is the Big Guy in the sky.
Sadly these nut cases are still around.
Lol I thought these guys had disappeared years ago. Guess not, however they are still irrelevant
Only a nutcase would go to an island the day it's scheduled for annihilation by God.
They don't sound very smart, do they?
They really worship an evil god don't they?
Aloha nui loa. E pili mau na pomaika`i ia `oe.
Latou te mana'omia uma le alofa latou te maua
That's for sure.
[deleted] Oh, sorry Americans - after all, FREE SPEECH governs no matter HOW harmful it can be. I forgot how easy it is to be misled there.
Don't know what we'd do without some foreigners telling us what it is we should do!
Maybe a foreigner's advice that is bound to be more objective should be taken seriously, or are you saying I don't have the right to "speak my mind" on NT provided I am on topic and not contravening the ToS or CoC?
oh God don't get your feelings all hurt.
of course you can write whatever you want just like the rest of us.
just odd how critical people who don't live here really are about us.
It is a two way street.
You didn't hurt my feelings. I just thought I should set you straight. I may not live in the USA but let me give you a little history. When TV was first available in Ontario, the only station we could get was WBEN-TV Buffalo so even as a young kid I could only view Americana and American news. We lived less than an hour's drive from western New York and travelled there many times for many purposes.
Throughout my life most of my vacations have been spent in the USA and I've spent time in, and not just passed through, and met many people in Buffalo, Boston, Provincetown Cape Cod, Nantucket, New York City, many places in Florida and owned a golf condo there for years, Baltimore (which was the very first and very last American city I was ever in), Cincinnati, Washington D.C., Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Dallas and Arlington and Fort Worth, Palm Springs, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, The Hawaiian islands of Oahu, Kauai, and the Big Island, and some of those places many times.
I've attended music festivals such as the Rustic Fox Hollow Folk Festival in upstate New York where I stayed after the festival to help the owner Bob Beers clean up, and then he took me to visit Pete Seeger and his wife Toshi on board Pete's yacht the Clearwater docked in the Hudson River, Tanglewood in Massachusetts, Newport Folk Festival (there to see Bob Dylan go electric to the boos of the audience), Philadelphia Folk Festival, Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife and when in Washington (at least 3 times) toured the White House, the Capitol Building and stood in awe in the Lincoln Memorial. In other words, using Woody's words I know America "From the Redwood Forests to the New York Island, this land was made for me" to spend time in.
Here's an experience in Americana that you will never match - when at a conference in Washington I was driven in his 2-seater Mercedes by the notorious mayor Marion Berry to his favourite restaurant.
Now, it's true that what I'm learning about the USA more recently is what I see in the news and what my son who is there tells me, and I am so sorry about so much of that news - it sure is different than the America I knew, and loved. Please tell me that the stagnant political divisiveness and almost civil-war attitude between the people is false. I've heard that in family gettogethers members are cautioned to not talk politics (I guess they have to save it for NT). Please tell me the gun violence doesn't exist. Because it sure isn't the America I knew so well, maybe even better than a lot of Americans.
Not if one stays on topic here.
And the news you are getting there in China is accurate and true. They would try using propaganda on their people would they?
Oh BTW how's free speech working out there?
And let me continue...
I have feasted on the famous chicken wings in Buffalo and watched a minor league ball game there, I have toured the Kodak plant in Rochester. When I was 16 I enjoyed The King and I and Guys and Dolls with their original casts on Broadway and toured the United Nations building and the Guggenheim Art Gallery - fabulous architecture. That time I ate lunch on the penthouse terrace of a New York girl I was corresponding with, who had mailed a book to me entitled "Understanding the Americans". Later on I viewed NYC from the observation deck of what was then the World Trade Center, and as in both An Affair to Remember and Sleepless in Seattle I stood on the observation deck of the Empire State Building. Later still I slept one weekend in Izzy Young's apartment over top of his store in Greenwich Village, The New York Folklore Centre, and he gave me and the girl I was with the keys to run the store for a weekend so he could go out of town.
When I was in law school my best friend and classmate and I were given a tour of the Harvard Law library by the chief librarian, and we attended a class in contracts and agreements in the Harvard Law School. Another time in Boston I stood on the deck of the USS Constitution and was there to watch someone hit a homer over the Green Monster in Fenway Park. Have stayed on both sides of Florida many times and Disney World with my family 3 times.
In California I drove my family on a road trip from the Muir Redwood Forest north of San Francisco, toured a WW2 sub docked at the wharves near Fisherman's Wharf, toured Alcatraz, toured the Hearst Castle San Simeon, saw the "Lone Pine" where I accidentally locked the keys in the car on the "17 Mile Drive", shopped on Rodeo Drive, got claustrophobic inside the Queen Mary docked at Long Beach. Another time toured Universal Studios in L.A. and had lunch in the actors commissary, and went through their theme park. And yet another time stayed in the West Hollywood home of my friend and client, a Canadian actor who spent a lot of time there and drove his fantastic vintage Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, because we went there for my daughter's graduation at University of Southern California for one of her Master's Degrees where I watched Rosa Parks speak.
Been to Vegas 3 times where I didn't heed my father's advice. He had told me years before that the worst thing that could happen to me was to bet on the first horse race I ever saw and WIN. I would be hooked. That happened to me in Vegas. The very first thing I did in the first casino I was ever in was obtain the dollar chips to feed into a one-armed bandit. The very first pull won me $100. That did it. Eventually I was feeding two side-by-side machines with a vengeance. The staff noticed me and gave me a VIP pass. I met Billy Bob Thornton there who was watching me.
I watched Governor Ann Richards speak when I was at a conference in Dallas and thought that she would have been a fantastic POTUS she so impressed me. Another time there I slept in a trailer in a trailer park in Arlington that my client was buying - the park, not the trailer, shopped in Sheplers Western Wear, and ate the biggest steak in my life in the Traildust in Dallas and fortunately wasn't wearing a tie.
When on the Hawaiian Big Island I went out on the Kona Queen fishing launch and caught a big enough Mahi Mahi that the motel chef cooked for 5 of us for supper, and at midnight we thumbed our noses at Pele and drove across the saddle road between Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea at midnight but Pele got even with me because not knowing the curse that it would bring I took home a lava rock from the island.
Those are SOME of the things that I can remember at the moment but my memory is fading a bit at age 86. So now, my question is, do you think I just might be somewhat familiar with the USA?
Geez Buzz... paragraphs..or you will get into trouble...again..😵💫
Doesn't seem to matter how many times I have to say this, but then only those who are interested in insulting me are going to keep up their taunting anyway.
Where do you think I get the stories I post on NT? From the moon? From Mars?
Every morning when I awaken I turn on my computer and read USA Today, Microsoft Bing News Compilation, Canada's Global News, and I COULD read FOX NEWS if I gave a damn about what they had to say, but then I DO read Crooks and Liars for amusement. Later on every day I read and watch CTV (Canada Television News), npr World News and npr American News. Although I can open many other western news sites I don't bother because I think I've pretty well covered it. HOWEVER, because I'm an educated person who KNOWS there is usually more than one side to a story, especially these days of the ultimate bias in publishing the news, I also read The China Daily, which is something I know damn well YOU wouldn't bother doing - one side is enough as long as it's anti-China, eh? Oh what a loss it was when Paul Harvey whose radio program was THE REST OF THE STORY died, because the rest of the story isn't in the American media. And the American media isn't just anti-China, it is also anti-Israel, and in the past I've proven that it is, but that's not the topic here.
AND, by the way, I don't use a VPN, so my internet access is no different than that of every other person in China, so every person in China can read absolutely everything on the internet that I can.
I'm quite disappointed that the moderators whom I unfailingly support did not see fit that the post I've replied to was meant to taunt and insult me, and is off topic, but then I must be one of the few members who post articles and makes sure that insulting comments that are IN FACT off topic are deleted.
Okay, I'll make it easier for those on this site with a lesser attention span (not you). So do you think it is easier for them to follow now?
The right to freedom of speech means nothing if the only speech that is allowed is speech that is liked.
I said nothing about it being "liked", my comment was about speech that causes others HARM. If you want examples of that here are the limitations on freedom of speech/expression in Canada. Are there NO limitations in the USA or can you cause riots and attacks on people with your speech and get away with it?
Who gets to decide what is or is not harmful?
Fortunately, not you.
I’m onto these guys. This is a Hawaiian vacation being claimed as a business expense. The business of hate.
We should pick up and move their church to South Texas while they're gone.
Let's go one step further and sneak it across the border
they were hoping to create a panic and cash in on some desperation sales of real estate...
Allowing for time differences, I am not sure if the destruction of Hawaii took place yesterday, or is scheduled for next Sunday ( here it is Monday pm ).
I wonder, if this prophesy fails to eventuate, will the WBC pack up and go home ??
Evening Way..meant to have happened y'day but far as I know no one carked it..nor is the island cactus..so all good..🐨
It's Monday morning here in Cali and Hawaii is 3 hours later so, since I haven't heard anything they must have been so thoroughly smited (smitten?... smote?..) that they couldn't even get word out before their demise. Still, the tsunami should eventually let us know.
hawaiian web cams still seem to be working...
Hawaii is still there on Monday
What the hell does that mean???? Is she trying to say that those little 6 year olds deserved to die? God hated them that much????
They worship an evil god.
If they are true believers and follow the tenants of their faith, this prophet must be taken out a stoned to death.
Evening George... Or they could chuck him into a volcano??
In Hawaii? LOL
A sacrifice to the true elder gods? LOL!
The same hateful hypocritical losers that have shown up to protest at funeral services of American service members killed in action in the Middle East.