The Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, and its leaders, were ordered to pay $10.9 million for funeral protest.
There are really two issues here. One is the right for a church to preach what it believes and the second is the right of a family to solemnly grieve for its lost family member. This group did not respect that family’s grief and that is abominable. Especially from a group of people who claim to be Christian.
A federal jury in Baltimore, Maryland, Wednesday awarded $10.9 million to the father of a Marine whose funeral was picketed by members of a fundamentalist church carrying signs blaming soldiers' deaths on America's tolerance of homosexuals. (Can you believe the convoluted thinking that went into this charge).
Church members showed up at Snyder's funeral chanting derogatory slogans and holding picket signs with messages including "God Hates Fags."
They've picketed the funerals of dozens of troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, claiming that God is punishing the United States because of its tolerance for homosexuality.
Some of the other signs at the funeral included "Thank God for dead soldiers" and "Thank God for IEDs."
They are preaching hatred and intolerance. It is unforgivable for any group who claims to believe in God, to preach hatred against the very humans that God created. Their hearts have been blackened by hatred and prejudiced by what they believe is ‘wrong thinking’ behavior.
I can’t believe these people would put their bigoted hate on public display. They have no shame.
These are Christians who supposedly believe in a forgiving and just God. To paraphrase Rush Limbaugh these are ‘fake Christians’.
Church founder, Fred Phelps, says the case is about "putting a preacher on trial for what he preaches." He is patting himself on the back for being important.
He obviously wants to make himself a martyr in this cause and he would be a dangerous man if it weren’t so laughable that he thinks God could hate one of his own children.
The courts action to sue a religious group for what it preaches is a desperate and dangerous attempt to silence a sector of this society for voicing what this country does not want to hear.
The method these people use to spread their message of hate is immoral. To thank God for killing someone is against everything that God represents and is unforgivably immoral and subhuman. The bible does say in Leviticus 18:22 "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination." This country’s Bill of Rights says its citizens have the freedom to say and do as they see fit.
It is immoral for this or any other group to disrupt the solemn practice of sending our loved ones back to the very God that these fools believe hates him for being American.
I was born into a Baptist family. I was raised Baptist and I can tell you that this group is an embarrassment to all Christians and does not represent the mainstream religious community.
God will take care of these bigots and He will take care of homosexuals as He sees fit, our court system should stay out of it.
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