Westboro Baptist Church Pleased with Sikh Shooting
Fred Phelps tweets: "beautiful work of an angry God who told Wisconsin to keep their filthy hands off his people".
Almost immediately after the shooting at the Sikh Temple in Wisconsin, leaders of the Westboro Baptist Church took to Twitter, calling the shooting a beautiful punishment from an angry God.
Westboro Church leader Margie Phelps sent out a tweet that read, "God sent another shooter?"
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What the fuck is wrong with Margie Phelps?
Rumor has it they practice quite a bit of inbreeding over at Westboro. I think Margie's father is also her brother.