Just a few excerpts from a news article I read today.
BALTIMORE - A grieving father won a nearly $11 million verdict Wednesday against a fundamentalist Kansas church that pickets military funerals out of a belief that the war in Iraq is a punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality
Church members routinely picket funerals of military personnel killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, carrying signs such as "Thank God for dead soldiers" and "God hates fags."
The church members testified they are following their religious beliefs by spreading the message that soldiers are dying because the nation is too tolerant of homosexuality
Earlier, church members staged a demonstration outside the federal courthouse. Church founder Fred Phelps held a sign reading "God is your enemy," while Shirley Phelps-Roper stood on an American flag and carried a sign that read "God hates fag enablers." Members of the group sang "God Hates America" to the tune of "God Bless America.
Organized religion at it's worst. These people scare me.
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I saw a documentary about these guys earlier in the year and they really scare me. How can you be so sure that your beliefs are right and others are wrong when you won't even listen to opposing arguments. And the fact they make their kids join in makes me sick.
Holy crap! They're the ones going straight to hell.
My one statement: Jesus wouldn't treat folks like that.
I didn't know someone had taken Fred Phelps to court. Good for them. They'll never see a dime, but I don't imagine that grieving father was ever really after the money.
Too many wackos in the world. I fear for our future.
How do loonies go through life like that?
ok so i totally don't agree with these bible beating freaks ... and if one of my children died in war and these assholes were picketing their funeral ... someone is leaving with a fat lip and it ain't me ...
... HOWEVER ...
this is what we fight for ... their right to believe what they want ... to assemble peaceably ... it does make me very sad to see how they chose to use that freedom though
My feelings about organized religion twirl around my hate for this kind of judgemental and cruel behavior. How on earth does something good like the concept of faith turn in to such hatred and cruelty. Sick.
What Bubbles said.
I try not to hate people, but for Fred Phelps and his organization, I'll make an exception.
Sometimes I wonder if people like Phelps have actually read the Bible.
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