Crazy Cult Set to Protest Baker Knoll Funeral

Those krazy kids from Fred Phelp's "God Hates Fags" Westboro Baptist Church are planning to protest today's funeral in Pittsburgh for Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll.

According to their website, http://www.godhatesfags.com (yeah, that's the name of the "church's" website), they plan to be all over the Burgh today:

11/25/2008 07:45 AM - 08:30 AM Pittsburgh, PA
Croatia Consulate - God Hates Croatia Croatia 100 Delaney Drive Are you kidding me? Of course God Hates Croatia. They know that the curses of God abide upon them. All these centuries they have gone after false gods, and went about to establish their own form of government, and the whole world knows they are violent beasts in that nation...

11/25/2008 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Pittsburgh, PA
University of Pittsburgh - God Hates You! Forbes Ave & Bellefield Ave I do not know what their little school calls themselves, I only know that if you are in that evil state - you are nasty...

11/25/2008 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Pittsburgh, PA
UK Consulate - God Hates your Whorish Royal Family!...

11/25/2008 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Pittsburgh, PA
St. Paul Cathedral - Baker Knoll is in HELL! Fifth Ave at Craig Street We will picket this evil woman's funeral...

11/25/2008 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM Pittsburgh, PA
Italy Consulate - God REALLY Hates Italy...now this will be a spicey meatball for these high-country hypocrites to swallow with their fancy wines and their "culture" - NOT! Read these words, heed these words and SHUT UP, you mobster-breeding perverts!...

Here's their press release for the funeral:


Making Jesus proud!

The Westboro cultists have to protest her funeral because if they had tried to protest her when she was alive, she would have kicked their asses back to Topeka:



A counter protest is planned. See here for more information.

I guess "RIP" is out the window.

UPDATE: According to Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents, "police are on high alert for Tuesday's funeral mass."
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PA Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll has died

From the Post-Gazette:

Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll, a much-beloved figure in Pennsylvania politics who helped forge a path for women and whose head-on bluntness made her one of the most colorful figures in Allegheny County and Harrisburg, died yesterday after battling cancer for several months.

She was 78.

The daughter of a McKees Rocks baker, Mrs. Knoll entered politics through Allegheny County's old Democratic machine, but then had to fight her way onto tickets, overcoming party leaders' questions about her intellect and concerns about whether a woman could win a statewide election.

A 40-year veteran of county political wars, Mrs. Knoll served two terms as state treasurer and made a strong third-place finish among seven candidates in the 1994 Democratic primary for governor. Eight years later she went on to win her highest post, lieutenant governor in the administration of Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell. She was the first woman to be elected to the office.

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Mrs. Knoll will be succeeded as lieutenant governor by the current president pro tempore of the state Senate, Republican Joseph B. Scarnati III of Jefferson County.

The P-G article also mentions her frequent malaprops including referring to Gov. Edward G. Rendell as "Edward G. Robinson."

She was much loved in Western PA and while I was no real fan, I very much admire the fact that she was able to go as far as she did in a state that has a dearth of female politicians in top spots, especially coming from this region of the state.

RIP Catherine Baker Knoll
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