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Westboro Baptist Church at it Again: Anti-Gay Church Members Picket Outside Fort Hood Gates
Westboro members picket the funerals of fallen troops, saying their deaths are God’s punishment for the country’s tolerance of homosexuality.
On its website, the church boasts of conducting 48,015 pickets in 859 cities. Members holding signs with such messages as “pray for more dead soldiers” were gathered Saturday outside the gates of Fort Hood. Local residents organized a rally in support of the troops in the same area during which funds were being raised for the Wounded Warrior Project. About 100 area residents took part in the counter demonstration Saturday morning. “Our intention is to take away any attention the WBC could possible gain during their protest in a peaceful and positive manor,” organizer Hayley Kunkel said. III Corps and Fort Hood released a statement on Facebook that said, “This group has a right to protest and express their opinions. We are working hand in hand with the City of Killeen to ensure the safety of both the protestors and residents of Killeen and Fort Hood.” About 35 Killeen police officers stood by during the protest, but there were no reports of any major incidents. In March 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment protects the fundamentalist church members who stage attention-getting, anti-gay protests outside military funerals. The court voted 8-1 in favor of the church, upholding an appeals court ruling that threw out a $5 million judgment awarded to Albert Snyder, the father of a fallen Marine who sued church members after they picketed his son’s funeral. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that even “hurtful speech” on public issues must be protected, so that debate isn’t suppressed, but the court’s lone dissenter, Justice Samuel Alito, said the commitment to free speech doesn’t mean the nation has to tolerate what he calls a “vicious verbal assault.” The Marine’s family had the support of 48 states, 42 U.S. senators and veterans groups, who said the church protests amounted to “psychological terrorism.” But a daughter of the church’s minister, Margie Phelps, who’s also the lawyer who argued the case, said the court would have had to “shred the First Amendment” to rule against the church. Delivered by The Daily Sheeple Contributed by of KWTX.com. Please share: Spread the word to sheeple far and wide
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How come these people do not have a problem with gov. Involement when it suits their agenda? Small minds.
There is a special place reserved at the very bottom of hell for the members of this so-called church.
Thank you Waterboy for putting in WAY more politically correct than I could have managed!!! =) I hope they rot there for eternity!
Although the WBC goes overboard in their protests, homosexuality is completely contrary to nature and God’s will. It does not produce offspring and creates all kinds of confusion and perversion, like people having surrogate children (which is essentially adultery, because where do you get the sperm from?). Just have normal sex, why don’t people inclined towards being gay just date opposite gender people who look more like the opposite gender? Or just not date – there is nothing wrong with being single.
@Paul Hakel,
Gay is genetic appeal to the same sex. –that simple!
@paul There’s also NOTHING wrong with being gay. So does god smite the over 5000 species of animals who are gay? I think NOT! Get a grip on life and stop letting every word of a MAN MADE book rule your life. I’m Christian, but I accept gays for who they are. Considering the bible isn’t even complete, you have NO idea what is wanted. Be a good person and hurt no one, you will be admitted into heaven. Don’t say gays won’t, because you honestly have no idea who had been accepted. Unless that is, if you were resurrected.
Karla, Well said! I agree, I think you have a much closer understanding of Gods will.
Personally, I would like to introduce the entire WBC to a VBIED (Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device) Quite popular over here in Afghanistan. At detonation, VOILA! n more WBC! a Win Win situation. My son is in Baghdad still and if he were killed there, the WBC would in fact be introdced to such if they showed up at his funeral protesting or at very least VERY ACCURATE automatic small arms fire.
This isn’t a gay issue, it’s about a lunatic church that goes to funerals of fallen soldiers chanting and prasiing GOD that the soldier is dead. These people are EVIL and should be tortured for the rest of their lives. They are horrible people!!!
They were after soldiers before Obummer got into the white house and changed any laws!!!
Go to one of the funerals they’ve protested and than tell me this is a gay issue!!!
@Prepared Soccer Mom, Right you are Soccer Mom. As I said, if they protested at my son’s funeral were he to be killed, it would go poorly for them indeed, ALL OF THEM! and if I got away for long enough, their entire church would suffer for it.
Morality is selective. God.also says do not steal yet many og the banking and corporare world would see profits dry up.if they were not allowed to take peoples money. Just like married men sitting in bars hoping to get lucky. They are only married when it is convenient for them.
@Evie, HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAA