Ozzy Osbourne: “DISGUSTED” By Church’s Use of “Crazy Train”
“I am sickened and disgusted by the use of ‘Crazy Train’ to promote messages of hate and evil by a ‘church,’” singer OZZY OSBOURNE said in response to news that Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church used lyrics from his song at events surrounding Tuesday’s (10/6/10) Snyder v. Phelps Supreme Court hearing. An attorney–a daughter of the church’s founder, along with her sister–paraphrased lyrics from OSBOURNE’s “Crazy Train” at a post-Supreme Court hearing press conference in Washington D.C.
The church is described by the Wall Street Journal (10/6/10) as a “tiny Kansas church…[that]…preaches that U.S. deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq are punishment for American’s tolerance of homosexuality and abortion.” As the Examiner.com noted (10/6/10) of the church, “their flamboyant demonstrations at the funerals of non-gay service members, using the events to highlight their belief that military deaths overseas are justified punishment for U-S tolerance of homosexuality. (‘You’re Going to Hell,’ ‘Thank God for Dead Soldiers,’ and ‘God Hates You’ are popular Westboro slogans.).”
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I think I’d rather remember OZZY for his Sabbath connections and a voice I still enjoy listening to than any hostility toward a church that preaches anti homosexuality. I don’t mind the debauched and depraved goings on behind closed doors as I don’t have to see or listen to the filth but when these DEPRAVED & PERVERTED creatures promote their vile ways it has become too much to bear. Our greedy politicians legalised it for the vote and so the perverted amongst them could remain in office without the press blackmailing them. Here’s the discrimination- homosexual happenings can be promoted on the telly whereas anti homosexual happenings voiced on a street corner will be confronted with hatred- DROP the silly soap box routine OZZY and back these people- unless you enjoy the idea of having one up the wrong one- maybe your son does too?
Ooof. God hates us all-didn’t they get the memo? Top 100 most-shocking moments in music history (Vh1) reminds me that somehow the death of Michael Jackson was more shocking than the assasination of John Lennon and that a decade after the fact (or more) the Pope in Rome formaly forgave the Beatles’ icon for the offhand comment regarding Christ, the Beatles, and popularity. go figure..I’ll never figure out how any church worth its salt can preach(or practice) hatred for any reason. I guess if anyone suggested to those particuler Babtists that they get busy loving their enemies …Kansas would have another Altamont on their hands. anybody see that Vh1 thing? DISCO SUCKS-DISCO SUCKS…take me out to the ball game!