Thursday, June 07, 2007

Shirley Phelp-Roper is a UNFIT Mother according to Nebraska!!!



Okay so it looks like Nebraska is my new favorite state!!!
Nebraska law states that it is a Class 3 misdemeanor when a person "intentionally casts contempt or ridicule upon a flag by mutilating, defacing, defiling, burning or trampling upon such flag." The law was passed in 1977.
In a previous post here I talk about how I hate the fact that people treat our US Flag and how much it angers me. Well it looks like the WBC (Westboro Baptist Church) has been rung up for this. Here is the story:

Omaha, Neb. — A member of the Kansas church that protests at soldier funerals across the nation was arrested Tuesday after her son stomped on a U.S. flag during a protest in Bellevue.

Shirley Phelps-Roper, 49, of Topeka, Kan., was arrested on suspicion of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Phelps-Roper acknowledged that she allowed her 10-year-old son, Jonah, to stand on the flag — an action that she says is protected by the U.S. Constitution.

Bellevue Police Capt. Herb Evers said a 1977 Nebraska statute makes it unlawful for a person to trample on a flag.

Phelps-Roper is a member of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka. She is a daughter of the church’s founder, the Rev. Fred Phelps.

Phelps-Roper said church members have protested at more than 280 military funerals in 43 states since June 15, 2005, and that Tuesday marked her church’s first arrest at a funeral.


Here is another story on what happened in Omaha:

Shirley Phelps-Roper – the new face of Topeka’s gay hating, soldier funeral picketing Westboro Baptist Church – was arrested yesterday morning in Nebraska for allowing her 10-year-old son Jonah to stand on a United States flag while picketing a soldier’s funeral, the Topeka Capital-Journal reported. She is free on $150 bond.

Bellevue police arrested Phelps-Roper on suspicion of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Phelps-Roper told the Capital-Journal that trampling the flag is a constitutionally protected and righteous act.

"Every symbol of the rebellious, doomed America must necessarily be disrespected," Phelps-Roper told the paper. "We did our duty today to our God and fellow man. Our job is to cause this nation to know her abomination. The thing they worship, the flag, is worthless. It's a piece of cloth."

Phelps-Roper was defiant as usual.

"Those rogue cops cooked up this scheme," she said, "and now the question is whether the person who sits in the office of the prosecutor has character. If they pursue this, our next stop will be federal court in Nebraska to challenge that unconstitutional statute."


So now the question becomes will the WBC hate clan be traveling back to Nebraska any time soon? Or will they say that the next natural disaster was because they were arrested in NE and that this is GOD'S way of punishing the US?? Well I guess I will keep my eye in the sky for something to happen.

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