Westboro Baptist Church has made an additional high-profile enemy in famous rocker Ozzy Osbourne, reports E! Online. Outside the Supreme Court, the Kansas-based church played Ozzy Osbourne’s tune “Crazy Train,” ostensibly under the impression the song’s message supported their hateful agenda. Osbourne heard about this use of his work, and he certainly was not pleased.
Ozzy mad and ‘disgusted’ that someone used his song all for ‘hate and evil’
”Crazy Train” had been used by the Westboro Baptist Church. Ozzy Osbourne seems to be “sickened” and “disgusted” by this. Ozzy’s first single as a solo artist had been this song which came out in 1980 as part of the “Blizzard of Ozz” album. A live version appeared on the 1987 album “Tribute.”. ”Crazy Train” is love by numerous. It is considered a classic of rock and heavy metal still. Co-writer Randy Rhoads’ famous guitar riff is stock and trade for anybody who aspires to play electric guitar. The music isn’t really something Fred Phelps and also the Westboro Baptist Church should be using. They want to condemn those they call sinners while not appreciating the true value in the song.
War and homosexuality protested by Westboro Baptists
The Westboro Baptist Church uses hate speech that tests the freedom of speech in its protest against foreign wars when many other Americans stage peaceful protests instead. Their Supreme Court protest involved the death of a U.S. Marine in Iraq. The Westboro Baptist Church is being sued by the soldier’s father for invasion of privacy and emotional distress. This is because they protested by putting up gay bashing slogans, although the soldier was not gay, and saying the soldier had been “going straight to hell on (a) crazy train.”
Westboro doesn’t know ‘Crazy Train’
Using a song as a theme song when you do not know the lyrics is generally a bad thing. It doesn’t look all that great. The protest featured “Crazy Train” in it. Of course, Ozzy Osbourne never had been asked for permission from the Westboro Baptist Church to have the song used. Even if it might make them the target of another lawsuit. They clearly didn’t understand the lines from “Blizzard of Ozz”. ”Crazy Train” says in the first verse, “maybe it’s not too late… to learn how to love… and forget how to hate.”
The real crazies here are the Westboro Baptist Church members.
Details from
E! Online
eonline.com/uberblog/b204556_ozzy_osbourne_disgusted_by_anti-gay.html
Wikipedia
/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Train
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