Westboro Baptist Church will protest Amish Funerals.
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Comon some of you wannabe hardcore liberals. Please make an excuse for why these morons act the way, and do what they do.
Look on "both sides of the issue"
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/viewstory.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200610/NAT20061004a.html
A Kansas-based group that says "God hates fags" plans to picket the funerals of the Amish girls killed by a disturbed man in Lancaster County, Pa.
The Westboro Baptist Church -- described as a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League -- has made a name for itself by picketing the funerals of U.S. troops killed in Iraq. The troops are dying as punishment for America's tolerance of homosexuality, the group says.
The Westboro group says the Amish school girls were "killed by a madman in punishment for Gov. Ed Rendell's blasphemous sins against Westboro Baptist Church.
"Gov. Ed Rendell -- speaking and acting in his official capacity to bind the State of Pennsylvania -- slandered and mocked and ridiculed and condemned Westboro Baptist Church on national Fox TV," the group says on its website.
"Rendell also revealed a conspiracy to employ the State's police powers to destroy WBC in order to silence WBC's Gospel message. Co-conspirators identified by Rendell included state officials, citizens, lawyers, legislators and media," the website says.
Westboro Baptist Church said it is "continuing to pray for even worse punishment upon Pennsylvania."
A number of states have passed laws to keep groups like Westboro away from grieving families at funerals, but last month, a federal judge ruled that a Kentucky law barring protests within 300 feet of military funerals and memorial services is too broad and may not be enforced.
In other developments, the man who shot and killed five Amish schoolgirls apparently planned to sexually abuse them first, investigators said. But he apparently didn't get a chance: Charles Carl Roberts IV killed himself when police arrived on the scene.
Suicide notes left by Roberts indicate he was dreaming of molesting girls. He reportedly told his wife he had molested two young relatives 20 years ago - and wanted to do it again.
"It's very possible that he intended to victimize these children in many ways prior to executing them and killing himself," State Police Commissioner Jeffrey Miller said on Tuesday.
Roberts also indicated he was anguished over the death of a daughter who died shortly after birth nine years ago. In his notes, he said he was "filled with so much hate" and "unimaginable emptiness," but everyone who knew him said they never saw signs of his psychological distress.
Look on "both sides of the issue"
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/viewstory.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200610/NAT20061004a.html
A Kansas-based group that says "God hates fags" plans to picket the funerals of the Amish girls killed by a disturbed man in Lancaster County, Pa.
The Westboro Baptist Church -- described as a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League -- has made a name for itself by picketing the funerals of U.S. troops killed in Iraq. The troops are dying as punishment for America's tolerance of homosexuality, the group says.
The Westboro group says the Amish school girls were "killed by a madman in punishment for Gov. Ed Rendell's blasphemous sins against Westboro Baptist Church.
"Gov. Ed Rendell -- speaking and acting in his official capacity to bind the State of Pennsylvania -- slandered and mocked and ridiculed and condemned Westboro Baptist Church on national Fox TV," the group says on its website.
"Rendell also revealed a conspiracy to employ the State's police powers to destroy WBC in order to silence WBC's Gospel message. Co-conspirators identified by Rendell included state officials, citizens, lawyers, legislators and media," the website says.
Westboro Baptist Church said it is "continuing to pray for even worse punishment upon Pennsylvania."
A number of states have passed laws to keep groups like Westboro away from grieving families at funerals, but last month, a federal judge ruled that a Kentucky law barring protests within 300 feet of military funerals and memorial services is too broad and may not be enforced.
In other developments, the man who shot and killed five Amish schoolgirls apparently planned to sexually abuse them first, investigators said. But he apparently didn't get a chance: Charles Carl Roberts IV killed himself when police arrived on the scene.
Suicide notes left by Roberts indicate he was dreaming of molesting girls. He reportedly told his wife he had molested two young relatives 20 years ago - and wanted to do it again.
"It's very possible that he intended to victimize these children in many ways prior to executing them and killing himself," State Police Commissioner Jeffrey Miller said on Tuesday.
Roberts also indicated he was anguished over the death of a daughter who died shortly after birth nine years ago. In his notes, he said he was "filled with so much hate" and "unimaginable emptiness," but everyone who knew him said they never saw signs of his psychological distress.
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What does this have to do with liberals? Nothing. These people are pathetic, as are you for trying to turn this into a conservative-liberal debate.
http://www.reverbnation.com/brianzilm
exactly.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
Please, explain what this has to do with the political Left?
If anything, these guys represent the very extreme Right wing of Christianity... along the same lines as the Ku Klux Klan.
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you cannot politicize anything you want... I mean... you CAN. But, it ends up just making you look like an idiot.
Hail, Hail!!!
George Wallace was a Democrat.
Hail, Hail!!!
Not really. With the trend of individuals on this board creating excuses for people going to extremes. I'm wondering what excuse or reason those individuals would come up with with this nut jobs.
You understand... extremes exist on both ends, right?
Hail, Hail!!!
Of course.
Given how many times I've read people on here making excuses for all sorts of bad behavior (especially from certain religious groups that shall go unnamed), I kinda see your point. I don't think you'll get many takers, though.
Who makes excuses for terrorists? Most people here argue against labeling ALL Arabs or Muslims as terrorists... the same way they would argue that not ALL Christians are like these Phelps assholes.
Hail, Hail!!!
No, I would love to see that. Do you have a link?
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So is Robert Byrd...and others in there now who support the Klansmen.
Which proves that extremist views and political party affiliation is not an absolute. That's the point we are both making, right?
Hail, Hail!!!
100% correct.
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
This is a misguided group of individuals. 80% or more of their organization are related. That implies to me that their views are primarily the result of family brainwashing. At some point a single member of their family tree conjured these radicals perspectives and taught them to their children as the basis of Christianity.
Over time a few in solidarity joined the Phelps in their religious radicalism. But it mostly boils down to an inherited belief system. Look up Prussian Blue for another example of this type of thing. This phenomena can also be compared to Muslim Extremism.
The reason i singled out liberals in the first post is because they are the ones on this board that always jump to the defense of 'freedom-fighters', 'terrrrrrists', suicide bombers....err i mean freedom fighters w/ no other options....and the like.
Not trying to start a "political debate", more of a "i want to understand why you think the way you do because to me you sound like you're trying extremely hard to impress ppl on this board" debate. *whew*
I've yet to see anyone here defend a "terrrrrist"
http://www.reverbnation.com/brianzilm
Hmmm. Maybe you dont read the same thread i do.
No. You just IMPLY that people are defending the terrorists because they don't agree with you.
http://www.reverbnation.com/brianzilm
Often times people take my statements like that above as a defense to the people in question.
Personally, I dislike all religion, expecially radical religions like the Phelps. I'm just trying to make some sense out of it. Rather than calling them labels and running a brush of evil paint across them, I try to figure out the root of their motivation. By no means to I support their church.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF5mfG0vO8o
http://www.reverbnation.com/brianzilm
When people give reason and rational as to why others kidnap/blowup/ decapitate/ bomb/ whatever. I dont think i have to IMPLY jackshit.