Westboro Baptist Church

In reading the Free Press today as I do every mornng I came upon an article about legislation to prevent protesters from being closer than 500 feet to funerals. This is in direct response to the ignorant members of the Westboro Baptist Church who protest and soldiers funerals and preach their gospel of hate that these soldiers deserved to die because they fight for a country that supports homosexuals.

There is a fear that this legislation will not hold up when taken to supreme court etc. as it may be perceived as a violation of free speech. However a funeral is in my definition a private matter not something to be attended by anyone with a word to say and a score to settle. My best friend was killed in Iraq and I can state for a fact that if these people would have shown up to protest at his funeral they wouldnt have walked out. There is a decency issue here that more than anything shouldnt require us to legislate common sense and decency. This is an event for closure and to put a life lost to defend our peoples rights(whether in Iraq or not is not the argument) of free speech themselves and all other freedoms provided by the bill of rights and constitution. That is what these soldiers do and it is not simply because as the Westboro Baptist Church states that soldiers and lazy and cannot get real jobs, the majority believe in what they do and that is a noble cause.

Lastly, despite the ignorance and misinterpratation of the bible by this radical church. Make no mistake this is a radical chrisitan fringe just like terrorists are a radical muslim fringe. This is not the norm. The fact is if these soldiers are going to hell for fighting for as they call it "a fag run government" than so are the members fo this church. If they pay their taxes and use the highways and sewage systems in this country than they to are supporting homosexuals. By paying into the fag run government they are jsut as guily as teh soldier who dies in Iraq. It is not a question of whether they support this "fag run government" but rather how. Unless this whole church has figured out how to not pay taxes at all, at which point I wuld consider them a cult...wait I already do. By using services of this country, by using their right to free speech to spout hate than they support the government and in turn support the troops. The only reason they even protset at soldiers funerals is for publicity. No one will care what these whackos have to say unless they can find a way to offend the masses much like the KKK and other groups. It is not about the soldier, it isnt about the war it is about their ignorant message of hate.

To quote from a more eloquet blogger: "An aside: the majority of these protesters are or were taxpaying United States Citizens - whose taxes built the bombs and trained the soldiers who protect our domestic gays. They are at the very least, complicit in the "plague of homosexuality," the threatens (LOL!!!!) the nation. But of course, dogmatic ideologues will not tolerate any degree of rationality." courtsey of defcon:blog

Hell is gonna be awful full when everyones down there. But as I see it the only people who are going to find their way to Hell are the hate spewing memebers of the Westboro baptist Church.