"Goodbye, Bigot"

Westboro Baptist Church.

I know God loves everybody, but this hatemongering group of zealots – led by Fred Phelps – is collectively just awful. WBC's website address includes "godhatesfags."

Yes, really.

I read a heartbreaking post on Give a Damn ( www.wegiveadamn.org ) about a young man whose father disowned him – by letter – because the son is gay and father is a fundamentalist Christian. Father signed the letter "Goodbye, Dad."

Nothing funny about that.

But down in the responses I read a gem I just have to share here. One poster suggested the father should have signed the letter "Goodbye, Bigot" and another asked if that was the sequel to the children's book "Goodnight, Moon" (a much-loved favorite at our home). Fred Phelps and his terrible legacy were mentioned.

In response, here's what one poster eventually offered up as an appropriate tribute to Phelps at his future funeral:

Goodbye, Bigot

In the big funeral parlor, there was a bigot in a box.

And a protest sign saying, "God Hates Cocks."

And there were three ugly hags, railing against fags.

There was a big plate of cold cuts, and a ton of religious nuts.

And flowers, and cowards, and a touch of white power.

Goodbye, bigot.

Goodbye hate pouring like water from a spigot.

Goodbye Fred. Glad you're dead.

Goodbye picket lines, and goodbye signs.

Goodbye, nobody.

Goodbye, loon.