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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:58:46 -0400
To: improvetheworld &AElig umich.edu
From: Dave Morris <thecat &AElig umich.edu>
Subject: Re: cat-burning and godhatesfags
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Wow. Someone outta buy those folks a copy of the bible someday.

On Apr 24, 2007, at 2:57 PM, Monica Stephens wrote:

> 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
>
>

Dave Morris
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