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eirenical...and she has some fantastically constructive ideas for what to do about it when I just... don't. Damned Fred Phelps. I wish I could have been quit of his idiocy when I left Kansas. :-P
From Lynn Flewelling's LJ entry:
"It's all over the news this morning, so I won't even bother with a link. The US Supreme Court, in an 8-1 decision, says that the 1st Amendment protects the rights of the hate spewing Westboro Baptist Church to picket military funerals with signs that say that God hates America because of our permissive attitude toward homosexuality. A few choice sign quotes: "God Hates Fags" "Thank God for Dead Soldiers" and "Thank God For 9/11"
From NPR: "Asked why anyone would bring signs reading "God Hates Fags" and "You're Going to Hell" to a funeral for U.S. military personnel, church leader Rev. Fred Phelps said last year, "When the whole country is given over to sodomy and sodomite enablers ... the country needs this preaching.""
( The First Amendment Cuts Both Ways )
What's terrible? I remember those signs. They used to use them to picket outside the Topeka synagogue every Friday night, too... and presumably still do. @$$holes.
From Lynn Flewelling's LJ entry:
"It's all over the news this morning, so I won't even bother with a link. The US Supreme Court, in an 8-1 decision, says that the 1st Amendment protects the rights of the hate spewing Westboro Baptist Church to picket military funerals with signs that say that God hates America because of our permissive attitude toward homosexuality. A few choice sign quotes: "God Hates Fags" "Thank God for Dead Soldiers" and "Thank God For 9/11"
From NPR: "Asked why anyone would bring signs reading "God Hates Fags" and "You're Going to Hell" to a funeral for U.S. military personnel, church leader Rev. Fred Phelps said last year, "When the whole country is given over to sodomy and sodomite enablers ... the country needs this preaching.""
( The First Amendment Cuts Both Ways )
What's terrible? I remember those signs. They used to use them to picket outside the Topeka synagogue every Friday night, too... and presumably still do. @$$holes.
