Message Number: 648
From: Daniel Reeves <dreeves Æ umich.edu>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:15:10 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: cat-burning and godhatesfags
Oh they have Bibles, their attentions just petered out partway through 
Leviticus.  I guess they got sidetracked by all the homosexuality they're 
now so fixated on.

ps, more on free speech: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39182


--- \/	 FROM Dave Morris AT 07.04.24 15:58 (Today)   \/ ---

> 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   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...
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> ----------------------------------------------------
>> Monica Stephens
>> Department of Geography and Regional Development
>> University of Arizona
>> Harvill Building, Room 424
>> Tucson, AZ 85721
>> 
>> 
>
> Dave Morris
> cell: 734-476-8769
> http://www-personal.umich.edu/~thecat/
>

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