Westboro Baptist Church Protests Radiohead Concert
Something About Circus Monkeys
Mar 12, 2012
Photography by Nigel Godrich
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Appearing in Kansas City, Missouri over the weekend as part of their ongoing tour through the states, Radiohead found themselves the subject of protest by the gay-bashing, dead soldier praising group known as the Westboro Baptist Church. According to a statement on the group’s website:
”You have stolen the Word of God from your people and children, and as a sorry substitute, you prop up lightness and lies. You try to get the people to look at the nonsense and not at the wrath of God that abides upon them. “Look at the circus monkey over there and the fluffy setting, blah, blah…” Meanwhile, God is undoing this nation and effecting all of your lives, with the moth that quietly eats the very fabric of your national garment. Radiohead is just such an event. Freak monkey’s with mediocre tunes keeps you busy and focused by lightness. It changes nothing, God is undoing and digging up and throwing down this nation.”
Radiohead’s Nigel Godrich found the whole thing absurdly hilarious, joking on his Twitter account that the protest was the “highlight of the tour so far.”
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March 12th 2012
3:39pm
“Judge not, lest ye be judged”.
“Let he who is without sin cast the first stone”.
Baptists are nuts.
March 12th 2012
4:06pm
The Radiohead show was in Kansas City, MO, as clearly listed on their tour schedule, ticketmaster, etc. and every other easily available concert info source online or otherwise. Good job with not doing the bare minimum on reporting a “story”.
March 13th 2012
2:29am
Phelps, I don’t get it.
March 15th 2012
12:34pm
Radiohead is so lame these days, Nigel is most likely correct, the protest was indeed, the “highlight of the tour so far”.
March 15th 2012
1:14pm
To be fair, “Real Person”, Westboro Baptists are not representative of all Baptists.
March 22nd 2012
12:25am
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