Ozzy to Westboro Protesters: Stop Using My Music!

Osbourne 'sicked and disgusted' by Westboro Baptist Church antics
By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff
Posted Oct 8, 2010 9:59 AM CDT
Ozzy to Westboro Protesters: Stop Using My Music!
British rocker Ozzy Osbourne performs in Tel Aviv, Tuesday, Sept. 28. 2010.   (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Add Ozzy Osbourne to the list of people who are not happy with the Westboro Baptist Church. The group, infamous for staging anti-gay protests at military funerals and chanting things like “You’re going to hell,” played one of Ozzy’s songs on the steps of the US Supreme Court. “I am sickened and disgusted by the use of 'Crazy Train' to promote messages of hate and evil by a 'church,'” Osbourne said in a statement.

The group seems to like singing, “You're going straight to hell on your crazy train," E! reports, but PopEater notes that such a line doesn't actually exist in the song—although, ironically, the line "Learn how to love, and forget how to hate" does. Click here for more. Want to see a softer side of Ozzy? Watch him cover a John Lennon song here.
(More Westboro Baptist Church stories.)

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