An anti-gay church from Kansas plans to protest in Silverton next week after the town elected the nation’s first openly transgender mayor.

Okay.  So the Phelpses are coming to Oregon.  They will wave signs about the evils of Homosexuality in front of a man who is in a long and stable relationship with a woman, but alas dresses like a woman and has breasts. 

Silverton’s mayor-elect, Stu Rasmussen, said the protest is ironic considering he is not gay – he’s been together with his live-in girlfriend for nearly 35 years.

This is all after a round the horn tour that will park them in Portland — in front of PSU’s “Queer Resource Center”, which is at least attuned to their message, I suppose.  But then there’s:

Next up, at 8:30 a.m., the Swedish Consulate in Portland, for arresting “Bible preachers and put them in prison in that evil nation.”

9:30 a.m. The Westboro crew will picket at Portland’s Germany Consulate. They say, “They did much evil in their history, and now to try to kiss fag ass and distract from that fact they have become more and more evil.” […]

Their tour of Oregon ends with a stop at the Finland Consulate at 2:45 p.m.

So, Fred Phelps is coming to Silverton, Oregon in order to protest a trans-gendered mayor, and Fred Phelps is coming to Portland, Oregon in order to protest the nations of Sweden, Germany, and Finland.  Even if you really needed to protest the nations of Sweden, Germany, and Finland — why would you head all the way to Portland, Oregon to do so?  Can’t they protest Sweden, Germany, and Finland in Kansas?  I guess they just happen to be in the neighborhood, what with the whole “transgendered mayor” thing, but here again: why would they go to Silverton to protest a heterosexual mayor elect when Portland has an actual homosexual mayor elect? — Sam Adams, seen here with the city’s fine city council members:

And if they’re in the neighborhood, wouldn’t you prioritize the man in Bend who gave birth after a sort of screwy sex change operation?  Shouldn’t that be prioritized ahead of Sweden and Germany?  It’s all very mystifying.

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