Megan Phelps attends Kevin Smith's RED STATE and leaves after only 15 minutes!
As you know, Kevin Smith has been on tour with his film Red State. On a recent stop, the tour had some infamous guests, the Phelps family, whose Westboro Baptist church is the basis for the film. Smith, being the showman that he is, invited Megan Phelps and her cousin Jael to a recent show. The plan was to have a spectactle of the protest outside the show and then have them watch the film and share their thoughts/reviews afterwards.
Here's how Smith had pitched the event:
Twitter will introduce you to all sorts of interesting people. Like Megan Phelps. Over the last year, Megan and I have been carrying on a rather one-sided, torrid little Tw’affair. There were Moonlighting-like levels of sexual tension and lots of speculation about “Will They/Won’t They?” After all this time of doing it digitally, me and the “Marilyn” of the Phelps’ Family – Leggo-My-Meggo herself – are gonna finally meet! On a stage! For one night only! SEE the fun-filled-freak-show of a real-life Phelps Family protest as you enter! SEE RedState WITH actual members of those religious rock stars, The Family Phelps! Hear Megan Phelps’ review of the movie afterwards! And lay eyes on not just one, but TWO hottie haters – as cousin, Jael joins in! The Phelps Family Bible Bunnies will be in full effect, trying to convert, and I’ll be in full effect, trying to pervert. Let the fire-and-brimstonerific laugh riot begin!
Things did not go according to plan, but what can you expect when you are dealing with people like the Phelps. The Phelps' only lasted 15 minutes before leaving the theater. Before they left, they dropped off two autographed signs reading “God Hates Fag Enablers” and “Red State Fags” (pictured above).
They may not have given their review on stage as plannned, but of course they took to their Twitter and sumbitted their thoughts of the film. Megan tweeted, “One word review of the first few minutes: filth!” and Fred Phelps’ daughter Rebekah tweeting, “Red State is a vulgar piece of tacky melodrama.” Smith, meanwhile, took the walk-out to be a badge of honor, tweeting, “HOLY SHIT! I was just given a parting gift from @MeganPhelps! SHE JUST LEFT WITH HER ENTIRE FAMILY! RED STATE DISGUSTS THE PHELPS!!!”
Two membrers of the Phelps family Libby and Josh stayed until the end. They are the only family members who disavowed the church’s reprehensible ways and after seeing the film they went on stage to share “the straight’ story of their family”. Check out the video below.
To see the rest of the conversations between Kevin Smith and various members of the Phelps family visit Smith’s Twitter page. I can't wait to see Red State!