Westboro Baptist Church Pickets Panic! at the Disco Concert · 7:35pm Jul 23rd, 2014
Basically, P!atD pledged to donate $20 to some gay rights group for every WBC member who showed up. Given their paucity of number in light of the death of their Dear Leader, however, Panic only ended up donating about $260 for the 13 members, which they bumped up to $1,000. In response, Westboro released a parody of Panic! at the Disco song "I Write Sins, Not Tragedies." It's located on the news page I linked above, and it's actually hilarious how hard they try and fail and you should totally listen to it. Yup. *giggles* Real Weird Al-quality stuff, Westboro. *snickers*
Why did Westboro picket this concert to begin with, you ask? Come on, it's the Westboro Baptist Church, do they even need a reason?
Well, the reason that they picketed Panic! is that their new album isn't as good as their old albums and is some weird experimental electro-rock and now they sound exactly like Fall Out Boy. Not old Fall Out Boy, but "Save Rock and Roll" Fall Out Boy, which also isn't as good as their old albums.
Just kidding! Actually the real reason WBC protested them is that Brendon Urie, the lead singer, commented that he experimented with homosexuality many years ago. He's now happily heterosexually married to a woman, so I guess that he's one of the folks who chose to be straight, or he was never actually gay to begin with. Unlike what Westboro and the mass media would have you believe, if you have gay sex one time, it doesn't turn you gay like some sort of homosexual meth.
(Actually, doing meth one time won't necessarily turn you into a meth addict either, but that's not really a catchy catchphrase that attempts to boil down the complex issues of lifestyle and dependency into a short slogan like "not even once." Instead, the meth campaign continues to spread propaganda and fear mongering rather than try to reform drug laws or actually help people who are addicted. They're the Westboro of anti-drug campaigns. But I digress.)
Of course, on the other end of the spectrum, if you're happily in a homosexual relationship, you shouldn't be ashamed and go to one of those "gay camps" to turn you straight, because there's not anything inherently wrong with being gay.
I guess that the lesson in all of this is don't be a dick.
Also sorry for insulting your fave-band-ever-besides-Nirvana, Regidar, but Panic's newest album really was a disappointment.
Eh, I like electro-rock, and it's actually my favorite album from them, but I can see where you're coming from :3
They're number 7 on my top ten, actually.
Also, Brenden Urie is sexually fluid. Just because he got married to a women doesn't me he decided not to be gay, it means he's bisexual/pansexual and found love with a woman.
And I mean, it's your opinion, but they wanted to make a dance record. Panic!'s always been about changing their sound. It actually sounds like a more upbeat version of their first record--less macarbre lyrics, and more party tones. There's nothing wrong with wanting to create something people can let loose to and just dance to.
Brenden's voice is incredible on it, I'd hardly call it "disappointing". They've come a LONG way since 2005.
Also "This Is Gospel" is one of their best songs fite me fggt
Could have been worse, Jack Chick coild have wrote a comic about how the band got a new manager named Lew Siffer (real subtle there Satan), and sold their souls to play the most evil of all music.....ROCK AND ROLL, I guess Batman was right in hating R&R
Some part of my brain is hoping that these people aren't serious and they just love doing stupid crap for attention. Then logic points out in the other part of my brain their rap sheet and their commitment to ignorance.
pffft! What's next the internet?.......That actually would be a very interesting result...
They used to picket the Federal Building in Topeka because it was close, and they could break for lunch at one of the nearby restaurants before going home for the afternoon. I think it was supposed to be something against the Coast Guard. (Yes, there's a Coast Guard office in Topeka. They do payroll) Generally, anywhere a TV camera will show up, they're willing to go wave their signs, so we mostly just ignored them. That made 'em real mad.