SirGawain wrote:I'm not one to be happy when a person dies, but I am today. Fred Phelps, founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, died yesterday. Fuck that guy and good riddance.
Yeah, he and his ilk are huge morons, but I tend to view the WBC in a weird way. I feel like they did more to galvanize folks FOR gay rights than anything else. It's like:
"Oh, you're not down with treating gay people like human beings? Meet these people over here from Kansas; they have the same kind of ideas as you. Seems like y'all would get along great."
"Uhh, no thanks. If I'm coming off like that, then maybe I've got this whole gay thing wrong..."
Very true. It probably opened the eyes of a lot of people and changed the way they think, even if it was entirely opposite of what they were going for. Considering the way they would protest soldier's and murder victim's funerals, he was obviously a raving lunatic
It almost makes me wonder if the WBC is just like this huge troll of martyrdom that is actually designed to help the gay rights movement. It's especially interesting to look at it that way when you consider the fact that back in his law days, Phelps was involved in the civil rights movement by defending people of color in court.
Of course, I highly doubt that he was smart enough to think of it that way.
I'm not ruling that out, but I would say his civil rights cases were just a way to make money, and lots of it. He was the only lawyer taking the cases and he was good at what he did. He was successful until he put a woman on the stand for three days because she didn't have the court report ready when he wanted it and it didn't even matter to the case. He berated her and paraded her old boyfriends in front of the court to prove she was a slut or some other thing that is completely outlandish. He was bat-shit crazy.
Trying to figure out whether or not I need a passport for my 1-year-old to travel to Canada. I'm getting conflicting results on the internet. Imagine that?
BoneSnapDeez wrote:Trying to figure out whether or not I need a passport for my 1-year-old to travel to Canada. I'm getting conflicting results on the internet. Imagine that?
No mention of a passport needed travelling with minors.
FWIW, I crossed the border many times as a kid and never had a passport. Granted, this was back in the day when you didn't need to have one at all to go into Canada, but hey.
BoneSnapDeez wrote:Trying to figure out whether or not I need a passport for my 1-year-old to travel to Canada. I'm getting conflicting results on the internet. Imagine that?
I'm worried for you about what the NSA is gonna think when they see your web searches about "how to take small children out of the country."
