Church to picket Heath's rotting corpse.

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Sydney - An evangelical US church plans to picket any memorials to Australian actor Heath Ledger, who died this week, because of his portrayal of a gay cowboy in the hit Brokeback Mountain, one of its leaders said on Thursday.

Shirley Phelps, of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, told the Sydney radio station 2Day FM that they would also picket any attempt to honour Ledger, 28, at next month's Academy Awards ceremony.

Ledger was found dead in his New York apartment Tuesday. Police have said prescription medications were found in the residence.

"I'm going to stand outside of any public memorial service that he has here," Phelps told 2Day FM, referring to the United States.

"And then the other place I'm going to picket him is when they prop him up to worship his dead, rotting carcass further at the Oscars. I'll be right outside by the red carpet."

'Punishment for tolerating gays'

Ledger won widespread acclaim for his sensitive portrayal of a repressed homosexual cowboy role in the Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain.

He had also starred in The Patriot and A Knight's Tale.

The Australian actor's family insisted his death was "accidental," while initial findings of an autopsy were inconclusive.

The Westboro Baptist Church is classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Centre in the United States.

It regularly pickets the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq, claiming the war is God's punishment for tolerating gays.
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When I saw the thread topic I knew it would involve the Phelps clan somehow :rolleyes:

If you've seen a BBC documentary called The Most Hated Family In America you'll know what I'm talking about.
 
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w1z4rd said:
These evangelicals are lower than whale poo.
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Interesting thought there. Never considered that whales poop before in my life but I suppose it makes sense. Of to join Boodles in googling whale poo :D
 
...And they call themselves a church?...no wonder ppl get confused about which churches they must attend :(
 
Whale is $$$?

Report back (extreme thread derailment)

Whale poo article

A ten-year-old vacationing in Wales stumbles across a lump worth nearly $6,000. A 67-year-old New York native receives a candlelike rock in the mail from her 80-year-old sister and discovers she may be $18,000 richer. All because a whale had a bit of indigestion.

That upset stomach creates ambergris, a rare substance that has been highly valued for thousands of years as an ingredient in perfume and pharmaceuticals. Ambergris originates in the intestines of male sperm whales after they dine on squid, whose hard, pointy beaks abrade the whales' innards. Scientists believe that the whales protect themselves by secreting a fatty substance in their intestines to surround the beaks. Eventually the animals cast out a huge lump, up to hundreds of pounds at a time.

But don't refer to it as "whale vomit"; scientists postulate that whales do not expel ambergris through their mouths. No one has ever seen a sperm whale excrete ambergris, although sperm whale expert Hal Whitehead of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, admits that it is assumed the voiding takes place as fecal excretion, because when first cast out, he says, "Well, it smells more like the back end than the front."

Viscous, black, stinky blocks of freshly expelled ambergris float on the ocean's surface. Sun, air and salt water oxidize the mass, and water continually evaporates. It hardens, breaks into smaller chunks and eventually becomes grey and waxy, embedded with small black squid beaks. The weathered chunks exude a sweet, earthy aroma likened to tobacco, pine or mulch. The quality—and value—of any given chunk depend on how much time it had spent floating or otherwise aging, says expert ambergris broker Bernard Perrin, because "it ages like fine wine."

For thousands of years this sea treasure has been highly prized. Middle Easterners historically powdered and ingested it to increase strength and virility, combat heart and brain ailments, or to spice food and drink. The Chinese called it "dragon's spittle fragrance." Ancient Egyptians burned it as incense. A British medical treatise from the Middle Ages informs readers that ambergris can banish headaches, colds and epilepsy, among other ailments. And the Portuguese took over the Maldives in the sixteenth century in part to gain access to the island's rich bounty of the redolent stuff.

The Arabic anbar refers to this very whale-based substance and is the root of the word amber. Centuries ago the French employed amber gris and amber jaune (gray amber and yellow amber) to distinguish between animal-based ambergris and what today has become the standard meaning: the golden-hued vegetal resin.

Like other animal-based perfume components (such as musk) ambergris has a scent all its own—derived from its chemical component ambrein—that it imparts to popular perfumes such as Chanel No. 5. It also enriches the other olfactory notes of a perfume, much as salt enhances flavors and spices, and, most importantly, it prolongs a perfume's other scents. As odor chemist George Preti of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia explains, ambergris molecules are lipophilic (fat-loving), as are perfume molecules, but the ambergris molecules are larger and heavier. "The odor molecules have a high affinity for the other lipophilic molecules, so they stay associated with the ambergris molecules and don't go into the vapor phase all at once," Preti says.

American perfume companies no longer mix ambergris into their fragrances, most likely because of confusing legalities surrounding its sale here. Internationally, however, the trade is legal and Perrin has no problem finding French perfume companies to buy his stock. "We also sell it to a royal family in the Middle East and they use it as an aphrodisiac. Apparently they take some milk, some honey, and grind up small quantities of the amber and put that in as well," he says.
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Interesting...

And this

All mammal 'deficate.' The nature of the waste depends on the species
of whale doing the duty.

Blue whales, for example, produce reddish stuff in clumps that are
about 9" in diameter. It is red because of the reddish exoskeleton of
its primary prey: krill. The stuff breaks up into small bits and
dissipates fairly rapidly.

Whales (and dolphins) that eat primarily fish produce a more brownish
poo that also dissipates rapidly after excretion. It is similar for
squid eaters such as sperm whales and pilot whales.

So now you know!

PF

On Nov 7, 2003, at 6:11 PM, Claire Gregson wrote:

> this may sound like a really weird queston but there are a few of use
> that have been wondering about this for a long time now and any
> information on the subject would be a great help.
>
> so heres the question: do whales poo? i know it may sound a little
> strange but what is whale "waste" like? is it like human "waste" or is
> it watery?
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from ASK archive

Also found this! Might have to leave MyADSL and start posting there. :sick:
 
Have to say, if you think about it, there are numerous ways to read and interperate the bible...There was this movie ( cant remember the name ) about straight vs gay...It showed how 2 priests ( 1 FOR the gay, and 1 AGAINST the gay ) got verses out of the Bible and how they used it...Im no gay, but i must say it was quite interesting...
 
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The Phelps clan are notoriuosly backward. It must be all that inbreeding.

They make the rest of the babble thumping fundies in the US look normal.
 
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