Now it's the funerals of soldiers

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Fred Phelps (I decline to use the honorific "Reverend") and his "flock" from the Westburo Baptist Church in Kansas have been picketing the funerals of people who die of AIDS for years, carrying signs proclaiming God's supposed hatred of homosexuals.

Well, it seems that now Phelps has decided that American soldiers dying in Iraq is God's judgment on America for its increasing tolerance of homosexuality. So now he and the Hate Squad from his "church" are picketing the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq.

One need not disagree that our culture's increasing acceptance of homosexual behavior is a bad thing to be revolted by this sort of thing, whether at the funeral of an AIDS victim or a soldier. And I really don't think the First Amendment means that grieving families have to put up with it.

I wonder where Phelps thinks he's going when he dies. Absent repentance, he may be in for a nasty surprise (I John 3:15).
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Anonymous said…
I live in Princeton, MN and have seen Rev. Phelps in action here at a soldiers funeral. Very sick and this gives Christianity a bad name.
2/13/2006 01:10:00 PM
Preachrboy said…
Yep,

He was here recently too. I wrote a letter to our local paper about it too. Check it out here:

http://preachrblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/phelps-at-it-again.html
2/13/2006 06:40:00 PM
Preachrboy said…
And I think Wisconsin actually just passed a law because of this situation, prohibiting protests within an hour before or after a funeral within a certain distance.
2/13/2006 06:41:00 PM
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