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\nFans of the band SLAYER say they\u2019ll attack any members of the political protest group \u201cWestboro Baptist Church\u201d who try to picket the funeral of the band\u2019s guitarist Jeff Hanneman. What initially appeared to be a mere joke among the band\u2019s fans on Facebook has since turned into more specific threats on Twitter. \u201cPlease try to get near his funeral,\u201d one Slayer fan tweeted the Westboro group, referring to them as an expletive. \u201cYou want to see god, you want to see evil? Try it!\u201d The furor erupted a day after Westboro said it would make Hanneman\u2019s funeral the latest in a long line of which it\u2019s attempted to politicize.<\/p>\n
Westboro Baptist Church is not an actual church but instead a creation of a family in Kansas whose sole purpose is to create scenes at high profile American funerals to raise awareness for their anti-gay agenda. Its funeral protests appear to have no connection to whether the deceased was homosexual (Hanneman was straight), having also recently targeted the funerals of the Sandy Hook victims and Boston Marathon victims. Although Westboro is not recognized by or affiliated with any actual baptist churches, it\u2019s still legally able to use the \u201cbaptist\u201d name.<\/p>\n
Slayer fans aren\u2019t the first group to threaten retaliation against Westboro Baptist Church for its funeral protests. Hacker group Anonymous send people to physically block the protesters from the Sandy Hook funerals, and also hacked the group\u2019s website. If Westboro does find itself in a physical confrontation at Jeff Hanneman\u2019s funeral, our money is on the Slayer fans coming out victorious. Fans of the band SLAYER say they\u2019ll attack any members of the political protest group…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nSource: stableytimes.com
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