God Hates Jerry Farwell

Ya gotta almost feel sorry for Jerry Farwell (okay, I do sometimes have a heart, even for homo-haters like Farwell). Only about 8,000 mourners attended the guy's funeral yesterday, which is small compared to the state-like funeral he would have received 15 years ago. More important, and indicating that Farwell had long been losing clout, was that none of the GOP presidential candidates attended, and the Bush White House, which wouldn't exist were it not for the help of Farwell, only sent a mid-level aide.

What is interesting, and humorously ironic, is that Fred Phelps and members of his gay-hating Westobo Baptist Church demonstrated outside the funeral. They carried placards accusing Falwell of being in league with gays and of cozying up to Israel. The church, which operates the GodHatesFags website, called Falwell a "corpulent false prophet" and said he "spent his entire life prophesying lies and false doctrines like 'God loves everyone.'" So, according to Fred Phelps and his gang, God probably didn't love Farwell.