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Dio widow urges fans to ignore Westboro pickets
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 24 May 2010
The widow of Ronnie James Dio has urged fans and friends of the late Black Sabbath frontman to ignore the nutters who are planning on picketing his memorial service next weekend. Members of the nutty Westboro Baptist ‘Church’ are reportedly planning to crash the memorial service after their chief nut, Fred Phillips, issued a statement accusing Dio of teaching “rebellion against God, in the form of glorifying atheism, promoting the devil horn hand sign and other such idolatries”.
The memorial service will take place at LA’s Forest Lawn Cemetery next Sunday. Responding to the expected picketing, Wendy Dio issued her own statement urging those fans who plan to attend or watch the memorial to take the moral high ground and ignore the Westboro posse.
She wrote: “Ronnie hates prejudice and violence! We need to turn the other cheek on these people that only know how to hate someone they didn’t know. We only know how to love someone we know!”
