Anti-gay preachers banned from UK

Basingstoke – just down the road.

It’s a town deserving of great wrath from above, not unlike Slough.

Must visit.

Anti-gay preachers banned from UK

A father and daughter from a US church which preaches hatred of homosexuals have been banned from entering the UK.

Fred Phelps and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper from the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) had urged protests against a play being put on in Hampshire.

Queen Mary’s College in Basingstoke is staging The Laramie Project, a play about a man killed for being gay.

Mrs Phelps-Roper told BBC News Online the decision would “bring great wrath upon your heads”.

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4 responses to “Anti-gay preachers banned from UK”

  1. Brad

    “We will picket them, and see if they actually believe those lies they tell about how tolerant and accepting Brits are.”

    Huh? I’ve heard Brits called “polite,” and even “hospitable,” but “tolerant and accepting”? George Wigg comes to mind…

  2. Mike Smith

    This makes me nervous, I’m probably within fire and brimstone range of Basingstoke.

  3. rac

    I’m even more nervous – I’m currently on a ministry training placement in a CofE Church in – yep, Basingstoke!

    Not only that, the church I am attending is the local church to Queen Mary’s College and college lecturers number among the congregation! It’s outlook on the world would mean it also welcomes LGBT people to its fellowship, and quite possibly to it’s leadership!

    I am not expecting to experience ‘great wrath’ from God, but will let you know if anything exciting happens!

  4. The monstrous carbuncle a couple of miles South of the lovely little village of Old Basing is known as “Basingrad” to us village folk, when it’s referred to, at all. (Hint: it’s something to do with the brutalist architecture, so reminiscent of the Stalin-era Soviet Union.)

    If friendly bombs are to rain, Betjeman-style, on Basingrad, please be certain that Old Basing is not in the radius of effect.

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