Oh wonderful...

Magicking610 · **Posted:** October 7th, 2010, 1:44 pm

1 Stone Pwn wrote:

Here's the article from Time: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2024062,00.html
It's about them picketing at a soldier's funeral with signs like "Thank God for dead soldiers" and "God hates the USA", and the guy's father suing them.
Also, why it's still legal: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2022220,00.html

Now, if I was that father, chances are I'd have a gun. And, if I was that father, I'd be using that gun. Free speech ******* when your crashing someone's funeral who DIED TO PROTECT THE **** COUNTRY YOU'RE PROTESTING IN. Those articles just disgust me.

Adbot · **Posted:** October 7th, 2010, 1:44 pm

Jason · **Posted:** October 7th, 2010, 6:00 pm

Just curious, since you mentioned the northwest and that being my neck of the woods as well, where exactly are the visiting? I would look it up but im in a rush right now and you probably can provide better information.

Duke Juker · RSBandB Donor since 07/01/2010

Spokane (Washington), Cheney (Washington), and Coeur d'Alene (Idaho). There are places in each of those cities they will be visiting.

Brimmk · **Posted:** October 8th, 2010, 2:14 pm

dafin0 wrote:

I've been to baptist churches before. but when i moved to aus, i stopped going to church altogether. Can they honestly call themselves a functioning church. A church congregation wouldnt do things like this. This sounds like a Extremist congregation, not a congregation. These people are bad news. I'd stay clear. Also, do they even have the right to go to a school and do this. PTA boards should have more say in things like this.

It's been registered as a hate group by multiple organizations, and one of the "related articles" in wikipedia is "homophobia". Part of the weirdness of this "church" (I'm not sure it's worthy of that title) is that it has badly criticized the two biggest baptist conventions in the USA. Also, so far as I'm aware, only the Catholic churches (both roman and eastern variations) excommunicate any more, and even then very rarely (again, so far as I'm aware).

ryan1 · **Posted:** October 9th, 2010, 6:34 am

Duke Juker wrote:

...but hopefully, the court will find that their "free speech" isn't suitable or respectful in some way and stop this awful things from continuing.

The whole reason we have the first amendment is to protect exactly this type of unpopular speech. We wouldn't need the first amendment if it only protected people who say things that everyone agrees with.

That said, the Westboro Baptist Church are a bunch of **** fundamentalist bigots, and you should definitely counter-protest. You don't even have to do anything but make a sign, preferably with something like "God hates **** fundamentalist bigots." written on it, and stand near them with it.