Etheridge Takes On the Phelps
Melissa Etheridge tells USA Today that the pastor of Topeka’s gay hating Westboro Baptist Church inspired a track on her new album, The Awakening. Etheridge told the paper that “The Kingdom of Heaven” is an answer to Fred Phelps and "the hating going on in the name of God. We have to stand up to people and say, 'You don't own God.' I am not a godless person because I'm gay or a musician. I know that my creator made me this way."
Contacted by e-mail this morning, Shirley Phelps-Roper says her father preached about the song two Sundays ago and calls Etheridge “a deep died [sic] pervert.”
Phelps-Roper also picked apart the lyrics, sprinkling her criticisms with smiley face emoticons. “In her first verse, she says God Hates America – who knew that pervert could preach. :-) In the next verse she calls my dad a fag, and then she has a chorus that says God loves you and God loves me. The next verse says that I am an angry person and maybe something else. :-) Then – and you can see this best when you watch her on YouTube – (remember Justin – WE are the watchers!) – you see her take her case to the people – COME ON PEOPLE – and her case is vain babbling – she has a problem – she cannot change the standards of God and expect anything but confusion, misery, cancer, death and hell! But best of all – when she gets to the last chorus, she lets the cat out of the bag – she ends her little missive (call it Exhibit A for her trial in the great and terrible Day of Judgment) with this – My god is love, my god is peace, my god IS you, my god IS ME! YES – we knew these perverts think they are god! I just love it when they say the words out loud – then they confirm what we have been saying all these years. If you say ONE WORD about the standard of God, they mock, scoff, then eventually, they have to bare their soul and out of the abundance of their dark, evil, rebellious hearts, their mouth speaks! OOPS – it sucks to be her!”
Etheridge isn’t the only celebrity drawing inspiration from Phelps. Earlier this year, director Kevin Smith told the Brit version of Rotten Tomatoes that his next flick – a horror movie titled Red State – will feature a villain inspired by the pastor. – Justin Kendall
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