Fred Phelps protests at memorial service Heath Ledger

Unbelievable. Fred Phelps and his clan from the Westboro Baptist Church went to Heath Ledger’s memorial service saying Heath “is in hell now” and that his tragic death was not an accident but a punishment for his role in Brokeback Mountain. Phelps said “you deceived the world with Brokeback Mountain acting like it is okay to be gay. It is not, it is the biggest sin against god (…). Everyone who has been tempted by Heath will burn in hell“. It is so rude, so totally inappropriate, I had a hard time even believing that this really happened, that there are really people who dare to go to someone’s memorial service and speak such hateful words. Besides that, Heath Ledger wasn’t even gay, he was just an actor playing in a movie… I wonder what they would say to people who actually are gay. I can’t imagine that there are people who believe they do “the right thing” by showing such disrespect at a memorial service. I am really shocked. If you look on their website you can see small kids with t-shirts saying “god hates fags” and with big boards “death penalty for fags”. I don’t even want to think about the internal battle they will have to face when they grow up and one of them turns out to be gay. Or their best friend is gay. Or their brother, or their own kids. Such brainwashing is absolutely unacceptable. And going to someone’s memorial service saying that his death is just what he deserves, is horrible. Actually, it’s worse then horrible. There’s not even a word that comes close to describing how bad that really is.