Stockwell Day gets it; Winnipeg MP almost gets it.

Well it seems that the Phelps clan probably won't be making any appearances in our country any time soon. They've been barred from our country. CBC News reports:

"Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day's office sent an alert to border patrol to "look out" for people with signs and pamphlets consistent with the messages that the church promotes and to keep them out of the country, Winnipeg MP Pat Martin told CBC News on Friday"

At least Stockwell Day gets it. These people are vile, disrespectful excuses for humans and shouldn't be let into our country. This is great news. However, I have a bit of a bone to pick with Winnipeg MP Pat Martin...

""Entering Canada by a U.S. citizen isn't an absolute right, and if you're coming here only to disrupt the social order and to promote what we consider to be bordering on hate crimes or hate language, they shouldn't come into Canada," Martin said."

He's absolutely right that entering our country is not an absolute right, but whats this about 'bordering' on hate crime or hate language? How can someone in our country publicly exclaim "Jesus Sucks" and be charged with hate crimes, yet a known hate group can come into our country, spew thier vile, hateful filth and that only boarders on hate crimes? It IS a hate crime. It IS hate language.

The reason why the Westborro Baptist Chruch's members havent been locked up or at least fined for what should be obvious reasons is beyond me. Oh, wait, nevermind. It's probably because they hide behind that impervious shield of religion. They get away with saying what they please because it's their "religion". They get to spew their intolerance because disagreing with them means you are intolerant.

So far they've only been barred from entering our country - the boarder guards have been instructed to turn them away. They haven't explicitly been BANNED from Canada and they may make their way in elsewhere. Hopefully the government realizes the need to have these lunatics outright banned and follow Massachusetts and keep them out for good.

A Busy Week for the Phelps Clan

It's been a busy week for those fear-mongering, inhuman folks in the Phelps clan. Only a few days ago, the Westboro Baptist Church were hit by a fire that destroyed their church (whether it was arson or not it was arson has yet to be determined). This weekend, they are going to be in Red Deer, picketing the Laramie Project, and now this:

"A church group described in a British documentary as "the most hated family in America" says it will head to Canada this weekend to protest Tim McLean's funeral.

The daughter of the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, based in Topeka, Ka., told CTV.ca she and several other church members will go to Winnipeg on Saturday to demonstrate against what she described as McLean's "filthy way of life." Shirley Phelps-Roper said his life was emblematic of Canada's moral decay."

The WBC are claiming that Tim McLean's death was a gift from God. They are claiming that he lead a "filthy" way of life (who knew that the WBC was against carnies?!). They are claiming that he came from a "rebel country" ( a "fag nation' as Phelps has previously refered to Canada). And they are heading to Winnepeg to picket his funeral.

This is absolutely deplorable. Do they really believe that it is God's will to have people they dislike brutally decapitated on a public bus? The Phelps clan literally makes me sick to my stomach.

With any hope, they will be denied entry into Canada. Why they would be allowed to pass when they are entirely likely to be a threat to public order and intice hate crimes.