ABBA meets INFERNO

Having a crisis with that "easy to assemble" IKEA bookshelf? Can't stand the taste of lingonberry? I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I'm afraid the URL godhatessweden.com has just gone off the market.

Yup the tedious Phelps family is moving online with their public war against the socialist scandinavian country. God's elect are warned to "leave Sweden now" (you know who you are).

The fag-hating clan from Topeka, Kansas is kind of making a cultural tour of Europe at the moment - I guess holding up those homemade "God Gates Fags" placards isn't getting them airplay at home anymore. What with their constant presence at gay pride marches, the funeral of Matthew Sheppard and of US Servicemen, it seems that Americans - at last - have exported his over-the-top evangelizing like so much Jerry Lewis slapstick.

Why Sweden, particularly? Take a look at this article from the Daily Telegraph, if you really want to know - a loose princess, an intolerance for homophobia. I don't know. Björn Ulvaeus wore tight gold pants?

Just the other day, ur-geek Louis Theroux had in interview in the BBC about a program he was filming with the Phelps clan - "The Most Hated Family in America." Should be a hoot, though don't expect any sophisticatied tackling of the American landscape of outspoken faith. Sez Theroux, "It shows you what strange avenues the religious impulse can take you down. I think another part of the answer is that parts of the Christian Bible are pretty weird."