Kevin Winter/Getty Images for ACM
Blake Shelton got into a Twitter war with the Westboro Baptist Church, which is threatening to picket his concert in Kansas City on Oct. 3 over the singer's marriage to fellow country star Miranda Lambert.
The Westboro Baptist Church picked the wrong guy to mess with.
Blake Shelton fired back at the controversial religious sect best known for picketing military funerals and hate-filled, anti-gay messages Wednesday after the church threatened to protest at one of the country singer’s upcoming concerts.
RELATED: LEMONADE STAND NEAR WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH RAISES THOUSANDS
"Hey WBC.. I've got one more sin for ya... B--- me," “The Voice” judge tweeted at the group.
Shelton has been targeted by the ministry over his marriage to fellow country superstar Miranda Lambert after divorcing his first wife, Kansas school teacher Kanyette Willias in 2005. “There’s not a thimble’s worth of integrity in these sissy-men who fill up the airwaves with their self-indulgent ways,” a rep for the group wrote in a press release announcing the upcoming picket, before switching to the church’s go-to homophobic message.
RELATED: WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH WITNESSES GAY WEDDING CEREMONY
“THAT is why f--gs think it’s OK to marry.”
After the Westboro Baptists continued to tweet threats to Blake, the 37-year-old singer responded with a barrage of put-downs of his own as the bizarre Twitter feud escalated over the course of the day:
RELATED: WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH: WE WILL PICKET FIREFIGHTERS' MEMORIAL
The Topeka, Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church was founded by hate-mongering pastor Fred Phelps in 1955, rose to notoriety after picketing the funeral of murdered college student Matthew Shephard, who was beaten to death in 1998 because he was gay.
RELATED: CEE LO GREEN IS OUT WITH A NEW MEMOIR, 'EVERYBODY'S BROTHER'
Church members have also taken to disrupting military funerals of military funerals, claiming the soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan were burning in hell because they died defending a morally corrupt America.
No comments:
Post a Comment