Posted on 04/04/2010 4:10:21 AM PDT by Scanian
Just when you think you've seen the most vile, disgusting levels of human behavior, you come across something that makes you fear for the survival of the human race. It's not that I wasn't aware of the vicious demonstrations held by the Westboro Baptist Church; I wrote about their malevolence in 1998 when they picketed the funeral of Mathew Shepard, a young man who had been brutally murdered by a couple of Neanderthals in Wyoming. Shepard was pistol-whipped, tortured, tied to a fence, and left to die. This happened not because he had committed a crime or hurt anyone, but because he was gay.
I'll never forget the video coverage of the funeral on that rainy day. While Shepard's parents stood at graveside holding an umbrella and weeping for their slain son, a group of protesters, brought in from the Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas, waved signs and screamed epithets at the grieving couple. "Matt Shepard rots in Hell" and "Fags deserve AIDS" were examples of the level stooped to by people who call themselves "God's children." It staggers the imagination to think that there are people who believe in an all-knowing, all-loving, benevolent deity, yet think that it's perfectly acceptable to engage in monstrously offensive activities while hiding behind the false image of religious piety to disguise their own wickedness.
Keep in mind that this comes from a group of so-called "worshipers" in the congregation of a so-called "church." Applying more disgrace to their evil tactics, they also use children to hold signs with hate-filled slogans.
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I wouldn’t even credit them as being “false profits” as their hatred is clearly contrary to the Word of God. I would also like to point out that, while the murder of Matthew Sheppard was touted as a “Hate Crime”, it had nothing to do with his sexual orientation. A deplorable act exploited by the homosexual lobby to further it’s agenda..
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I agree with you and I was going to mention that robbery was the real motive in the Sheppard case.
Once the press starts pushing the “hate crime” angle, it’s mighty hard to put the genie back in the bottle. Which is exactly why they are fabricating ugly stories about tea partiers.
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