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: Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church has announced plans to picket
: Ozzy Osbourne's January 22 concert at the Sprint Center in
: Kansas City, Missouri. What will presumably be one of WBC's
: standard "peaceful sidewalk demonstrations" is meant
: to inform you that "God hates Ozzy Osbourne." In fact,
: WBC claims, "[Ozzy] promotes all the filth and rebellion he
: can and has the gall to call the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ
: 'evil' for warning this doomed world?"
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: The Westboro Baptist Church is described by the Wall Street
: Journal as a "tiny Kansas church... [that] ... preaches
: that US deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq are punishment for
: American's tolerance of homosexuality and abortion." As
: Examiner.com noted of the church, "their flamboyant
: demonstrations at the funerals of non-gay service members, using
: the events to highlight their belief that military deaths
: overseas are justified punishment for US tolerance of
: homosexuality. ('You're Going to Hell,' 'Thank God for Dead
: Soldiers,' and 'God Hates You' are popular Westboro
: slogans.)."
:
: "I am sickened and disgusted by the use of 'Crazy Train' to
: promote messages of hate and evil by a 'church'," Osbourne
: said last October in response to news that Westboro Baptist
: Church used lyrics from his song at events surrounding October
: 6, 2010 Snyder v. Phelps Supreme Court hearing. An attorney - a
: daughter of the church's founder, along with her sister -
: paraphrased lyrics from Osbourne's "Crazy Train" at a
: post-Supreme Court hearing press conference in Washington DC.
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: In a June 2010 appearance on the nationally syndicated radio
: show "Rockline", Ozzy blasted the Westboro Baptist
: Church's protest of Ronnie James Dio's funeral. "I thought
: it was in such bad taste that those people had those banners
: about Ronnie James Dio. That's disgusting. They say that we're
: the anti-christ. Well, what makes them any better?"
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