Fox fight

I’ve been fiercely critical of religious hypocrites in the past. You know the sort of people who ignore the central message of all religions, that love is always better than hate and who use their religion to spread a message of intolerance. Amongst the worst of the bunch is the Jim Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church who appear mainly to be a bunch of anti-gay bigots hiding behind their religious beliefs. Followers of Westboro believe that the Iraq war is a result of the USA’s tolerance of homosexuality and that the soldiers who die in that war are being taken by god as punishment. They even turn up at the funerals of the Iraq war dead and demonstrate.

I have also been fiercely critical of Fox News, mainly because I feel that they should be more honest and call themselves the ‘Isn’t George Bush Fabulous' News Channel. One thing I will say about Fox though is that they are passionately patriotic; blindly so on occasions. But they do love America and love is sometimes blind isn’t it?

So when Shirley Phelps Roper of the Westboro sect met Julie Banderas of Fox News there were bound to be sparks. And there were. Have a look.



Ms Banderas, I salute you. Minx.