Faux News is Good News: Shocking Revelation from
Controversial Religious Organization
Originally published on MaceandCrown.com
On Wednesday, during a press
conference at their headquarters in Topeka KS., the Westboro Baptist Church
revealed to thousands of onlookers that they had never actually been, a
religious organization.
“When we first stepped into public
view we had an idea of the message we wanted to get across, but it appears that
our ideals have been misconstrued by the media and others who have made it
abundantly clear that they disagree with what we evidentially stand for.”, said
Vernon Hel, representative for organization and leader for a majority of their
demonstrations. “That is why we’re going to return to our origins as an
experimental performance art group.”
Naturally this revelation was met
with some trepidation and concerned looks from the crowd. Some of the
onlookers, mostly those who sided with their implied ideology, were angry about
having been deceived for quite some time.
Others were relieved that such a
group of extremists such could never possibly exist. The liberal media could
not make their minds up on how to handle the entire situation. On the one hand
they were adamantly against the message they thought the Westboro Baptist
Church had been preaching, but now that they were claiming it all in the name
of art it created a conflict of interest.
Amongst those discontented with the
news was republican radio personality, Redd States. States is a well-known
right-wing activist and radical conservative. Recently he was indicted on
charges of verbally assaulting a local Girl Scout troop, asserting that they
were socialists and slaves to the communist cookie conspiracy.
“Never before has there been such an atrocity committed by
an all-American organization such as this. To think that it was all a façade, a
sham, a forgery, and at the risk of sounding redundant, a complete and utter
fake,” he said.
The arts community has only recently
considered the idea of accepting the Westboro Baptist Church as one of their
own. Until just recently the church would have openly protested against the
community. There are still those that feel uncomfortable when addressing the
organization, but overall the response is one of relief. No longer must people
be on constant guard lest they be targeted as a potential protest site, and the
Westboro Baptist Church can finally practice their art free of criticism and
misunderstanding.
The transition from radical
extremists to performing arts group will not be an easy one but one thing has
become incredibly clear. This will announcement will rekindle the argument
about what is and is not art.