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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:57:55 -0700
To: "Daniel Reeves" <dreeves &AElig umich.edu>
Cc: improvetheworld &AElig umich.edu
From: "Monica Stephens" <mstephe &AElig email.arizona.edu>
Subject: Re: cat-burning and godhatesfags
Status: O

Have you checked the youtube link again?  "This video is no longer
available due to a copyright claim by Warner/Chappell Music, Inc."

I doubt this is due to a copyright violation--look how many other
[better] parodies of the same song are on youtube (e.g.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2kZKI7pSHs)...  Or homemade parodies
of michael jackson (also on the warner label) have not been removed
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO_ey4v1ccA).  Perhaps Warner/Chappell
Music just doesn't share the extremest views of the church, so they
censored it.

Nevertheless, the music video is still available at
http://www.thesignsofthetimes.net/specialav/special.html, along with
Westboro Baptist Church's other extremist music videos.

-Monica

On 4/23/07, Daniel Reeves <dreeves &AElig umich.edu> wrote:
> We see a lot of hand-wringing over cultural and moral decay as evidenced
> by such supposed trends as increased violence in the world.
>
> Westboro Babptist Church, host of godhatesfags.com, has a laughably
> extreme take on this, to the tune of We Are the World:
>
> "God Hates the World":
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My8KxRj_Pwo
>
> I'm pretty sure they're quite serious.
>
> Here's the oppositive perspective from Steven Pinker, author of The
> Language Instinct:
>
> "We're Getting Nicer Every Day: A History of Violence":
> http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/2007_03_19_New%20Republic.pdf
>
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Monica Stephens
Department of Geography and Regional Development
University of Arizona
Harvill Building, Room 424
Tucson, AZ 85721