Westboro Baptist Church has made one more high-profile enemy in famous rocker Ozzy Osbourne, reports E! Online. In a demonstration outside the United States Supreme Court, members of the Kansas-based church co-opted the famous Ozzy Osbourne metal tune “Crazy Train” to express their message of intolerance. Osbourne heard about this use of his work, and he surely wasn’t pleased.
Ozzy mad and ‘disgusted’ that someone used his song all for ‘hate and evil’
Not only is Ozzy Osbourne “sickened” by the Westboro Baptist Church’s use of “Crazy Train,” he is also “disgusted.”. The 1980 song from Osbourne’s “Blizzard of Ozz” album was Ozzy’s first single as a solo artist. The 1987 album “tribute” also involved a live version of the song. And still, numerous refer to “Crazy Train” as a classic. The song had been also co-written by Randy Rhoads. Within the song, there is an electric guitar riff that every person knows well. Fred Phelps and Westboro Baptist Church’s goals are rather less artistic and more about heaping condemnation upon those they consider sinners.
Baptists at Westboro against homosexuality and also the war
While some Americans stage peaceful protests against the nation’s commitment in foreign wars with language that falls far short of hate speech, Westboro Baptist Church makes a point of using inflammatory speech, filled with venom that tests the limits of freedom of speech. The death of a U.S. Marine in Iraq is the center of controversy. This is why they are now in the Supreme Court defending themselves. The Westboro Baptist Church came out and smeared the dead soldier saying he had been “going straight to hell on (a) crazy train,” and called him gay, which wasn’t true, causing the soldier’s father to sue the church for invasion of privacy and emotional distress
Westboro did a poor job of representing ‘Crazy Train’
Most would suggest that an organization know the lyrics of a song before using it as a theme song. Westboro Baptist Church members no doubt think they’re clever and topical for using “Crazy Train” without Ozzy Osbourne’s permission. Even if it might make them the target of another lawsuit. But clearly they didn’t read the “Blizzard of Ozz” liner notes. In the first verse alone, “Crazy Train” advises a listener that “maybe it is not too late… to learn how to love… and forget how to hate.”
The members of the Westboro Baptist Church are doing things wrong. They are the ones in trouble.
Articles cited
E! Online
eonline.com/uberblog/b204556_ozzy_osbourne_disgusted_by_anti-gay.html
Wikipedia
/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Train
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