These are dark, protest-worthy days for the Westboro folk — when gay people are singing on stage, unlike it has been, um, forever?

The unfortunate thing for their message of peace and love rampant hatred, is that they've had a good deal of success unifying other Christians and gay-rights groups in a shared condemnation of this small fringe group.

Of course, as tragic and unpleasant as it is to publicly vilify a young performer for their sexual orientation, the worst of the Westboro Baptists is saved for their almost universally condemned protests of America soldiers funerals.

(Yes, they do protest — in front of devastated family and friends — at the funerals of men and women who died in war, saying that they got what they deserved because they were fighting for the US, which is a defender of gay rights and therefore dragging everyone into sin. Seriously.)

So, basically, in this most recent case, the Westboro Baptist Church has managed to get an 'Idol' finalist more media attention than any of them have seen in years. I still don't think I'm going to risk listening to any of those finalists, though.

And, finally, sticking with the total crazies — we turn to Scottish rocker John McClure, singer for Reverend and The Makers.

He's not the best-known muso; or at least he wasn't until a few days ago, when he gave what promised to be an unexceptional interview to the UK's Daily Mail.

It turned out to be rather exceptional, indeed, though. Particularly the part where he explained, in all earnest, that David Beckham was essentially to blame for Britain's role in invading Iraq.

No, he didn't somehow manage to confuse Becks with Tony Blair — he actually thinks the footballer bears some responsibility for that war.

"If David Beckham had of spoken out about Iraq it wouldn't have happened," claims the uniquely-opinioned rocker. "I honestly believe that, hand on heart, or Britain certainly wouldn't have got involved."

"Beckham's cultural gravitas was as such in that period that if he'd have gone: 'I don't want this war in Iraq, it's an awful thing, we should not do it', it wouldn't have happened, the public would've gone mad against it."

"But because he kept his gob shut, and everybody else did, it happened, we sleepwalked our way there."

Beckham's cultural gravitas? He's a high-pitched footballer, who's married to a former bubblegum-pop star and now makes his living modelling underpants.

And I'm pretty sure there were scads of British celebs speaking out against the invasion — like Sir Bob Geldof, Sir Paul McCartney, and Sting, for starters. But, of course, it's true that none of them have been known to model underwear.

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