Adam Hills Vs Westboro Baptist Church: Comedian goes head to head with controversial religious group who threatened to picket Robin Williams memorial

The Australian comedian has begun a Twitter battle with the controversial Westboro Baptist Church

Adam Hills responded to a video the church posted following the death of actor Robin Williams



The group accused Williams of sinning and threatened to picket his memorial, because he played several gay characters on film



The feud will intensify on the next episode of Hills' show The Last Leg



A war of words between Australian comedian Adam Hills and a controversial American church group has intensified, over their threat to picket Robin Williams memorial.

Hills, who hosts British television show The Last Leg, has been in an ongoing Twitter battle with the Westboro Church after they claimed 'Robin Williams was in hell' for staring as a gay character in various films and supporting the US troops.



The threat, made by a church leader in a video message, angered Hills who fired a shot at the church on his television show and offered to fly members 'first class' to Iraq to picket extreme Islamists instead.

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Adam Hills offered to pay for the controversial American church group to fly to Iraq and picket Islamists converting Christians to Islam



In response to Hills rant, the Westboro Church claimed it had picketed in Iraq before

In the rant Hills offered to 'personally pay for every member of the Westboro Baptist Church to fly to Iraq right now.'



'If you really believe in standing up to those threatening the Christian way of life, Westboro Baptist Church, how about putting your money where your mouth is, taking a direct flight to Iraq and picketing the people threatening to behead Christians if they don’t convert?'

Robin Williams was the subject of an anti-gay video posted by the Westboro Church

Hills said there was one or two things he believed would happen to church members in Iraq, if they chose to fly.



'Either you’ll die while defending your beliefs and you’ll be carried away to heaven by a gold chariot to sit at the right hand of God for all eternity.'



'OR if I’m right, and I’m willing to bet a dozen first class flights that I am, God will be standing at the pearly gates alongside a 5ft 8 hairy American comedian dressed as a middle aged Scottish nanny saying, ‘Heeeellllooooo’.

The offer was willingly accepted by the church who then tweeted 'show us the plane tickets!'. It has now left the door wide open for a highly anticipated response from Hills which he is set to deliver on the next episode of his show.

Hills said he will 'reply' to the Westboro Church, which has already claimed to have picketed in Iraq in the past.

The Group told Adam Hills to show them plane tickets or 'hush' on the topic of picketing Robin Williams funeral

The Tweet Adam Hills posted in which he tells followers he plans to reply to followers of the Westboro Church offer of acceptance

Robin Williams as Armand Goldman in The Birdcage - a film about a gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion

The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is an American unaffiliated Baptist church known for its extreme ideologies, especially those against gay people.

The Kansas-based group said Williams spent his life 'mocking God and promoting sin' and 'pushing flagrant debauchery, and hedonism.'

The 63-year-old played an openly gay character in the film The Birdcage, one of many gay characters he portrayed.

