Days after the horrific death of actor Paul Walker, the ghouls are already coming out of the woodwork.
The Westboro Baptist Church, the controversial religious sect best known for protesting at military funeral with hate-filled, anti-gay messages, announced Monday that it will picket the “Fast & Furious” star’s funeral.
“Paul served himself & the gods of this world (money, fame, excess of riot, etc.) while refusing to serve His Creator & use his platform, to encourage his neighbors to do the same,” a rep for the hate-mongering group tweeted.
“He’s in Hell & Westboro will #PicketFuneral.”
As a number of angry fans tweeted back, Walker earned a reputation for using his celebrity to do charity work, including the organization he founded, Reach Out Worldwide, which provides relief to areas struck by natural disasters around the world.
The Topeka, Kan.-based Westboro Baptist Church was founded by hate-mongering pastor Fred Phelps in 1955 and rose to notoriety after picketing the funeral of murdered college student Matthew Shepard, who was beaten to death in 1998 because he was gay.
Church members have also taken to disrupting military funerals, claiming the soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan are burning in hell because they died defending a morally corrupt America.
In recent months, the church has moved from the Dark Ages to the 21st Century, using social media to target celebrities such as British Olympic diver Tom Daley, who recently came out as gay, and country singer Blake Shelton over his divorce from his first wife.
