(CBS/WTSP/AP) NEW YORK - The friends and family at Steve Jobs' funeral will apparently be joined by the serial funeral protesters of the Westboro Baptist Church.Yes, the Westboro Baptist Church - the Kansas-based organization with a history of holding controversial and politically inflammatory protests - has announced that its members plan to picket the Apple co-founder's funeral, according to CBS affiliate WTSP.The Washington Post notes that Margie Phelps was among several church members to tweet about Jobs' death."He had a huge platform," Phelps wrote. "...gave God no glory & taught sin."Phelps is the daughter of church founder Fred Phelps.Westboro Baptist Church has stirred widespread outrage with raucous demonstrations at the funerals of U.S. military service members. The group contends God is punishing the military for the nation's tolerance of homoloveuality.On Wednesday, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against a Missouri town's funeral protest ordinance in favor of members of Westboro Baptist Church, saying peaceful picketing is protected by the right to free speech under the First Amendment.Oh, the group announced the protest on Twitter via - yes, really - iPhone.
Westboro Baptist Church announced plans Wednesday night to protest Steve Jobs’s funeral, sending the message out. . .wait for it. . . via Twitter for iPhone.Margie Phelps, daughter of the small church’s founder and the lawyer who represented the church during their First Amendment case at the Supreme Court, (which Westboro won,) was among the Phelps family members to use Apple products to Tweet about the death of the Apple co-founder.“Westboro will picket his funeral.He had a huge platform; gave God no glory & taught sin,” Margie tweeted Wednesday night on her iPhone.The Topeka, Kan. based church is mostly made up of Phelps family members but has risen to international infamy because of their funeral protests of celebrities and American soldiers. The church’s members believe that God punishes America for its tolerance of sin, including acceptance of homoloveuality.The iPhone-wielding Westboro members seemed unable to find any irony in their embrace of the technology of a man they condemn. One church member even suggested that God was using Jobs to help advance the message of Westboro Baptist Church: “God used Steve Jobs to create amazing STUFF for WBC to preach,” wrote Shirley Phelps-Roper.
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so the protesters who hate apple use iphones?
Yep, that's how loving stupid they are
