Posted on 02/27/2006 8:29:22 AM PST by Diver Dave
Protest planned at soldier's funeral Church: God angry with U.S. over gays
BEE STAFF REPORTS
Last Updated: February 27, 2006, 05:09:12 AM PST
An anti-gay group has plans to picket the Turlock funeral of Army Sgt. 1st Class Chad Gonsalves today. The Westboro Baptist Church, a group that has protested at other military funerals in California, is calling for followers to picket at today's 1 p.m. service at Monte Vista Chapel, according to the church's Web site.
Gonsalves, a Green Beret, was killed in Afghanistan after a bomb hit his armored vehicle Feb. 13. He is survived by his wife, Julie Gonsalves, and young sons Cody, Dylan and Blake.
A California chapter of a national motorcycle group, Patriot Guard Riders, also has plans to attend the funeral in an attempt to shield Gonsalves' family and friends from protesters.
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Funeral on Monday for Chad Gonsalves
What does his funeral have to do with gays?
One of these days, Fred Phelps is going to annoy one person too many, and that will be that.
why doesn't a small group of people meet them at the funeral with baseball bats, and end this bull sh*t once and for all.............
It will happen someday. We've gotten more crass as a culture.
My question: who funds these people!!???
About as much as the Westboro Baptist Church does with Christianity.
This is sick, wrong, opportunistic and disgusting, words fail me........
It is shameful that these people want to exploit this hero's death and his family's mourning.
PGR BUMP!
Morning Star.
I wish this sack of s*** would come to my neck of the woods,so I could give him a piece of my mind.
MY GOD SHOWS MERCY AND DOESN'T KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE FOR OTHER PEOPLES SINS.
This I guy is a certified wacko.
I thought Westboro was a gag however, is this not the case?
The supposed anti-gay component has nothing to do with any personal distaste or philosophical opposition, but was specifically picked in the so-far successful attempts to discredit by their own actions the reasoned position of other people against the homosexual agenda. (Just like pretending to be Baptist.) In other words, they are truly agents provocateurs.
To the extent they help promote sympathy for homosexuals, they are actually successful in their real agenda, and to the extent they create opposition to the conservative principles of actual Christianity, they are also successful. That is their entire point.
They were here in WV picketing the memorial service for the 13 coal miners, and would have loved to sue in federal court any individual of the many thousands who would have said something harsh to them, on the specious grounds of "threatening behavior." They even give other lawyers a bad name.
Thank you for your post, it really sums up what the WBC is.
Phelps and his Phags are subhuman filth, whatever their motivations are.
Tell me how you really feel...! ;o) HUGS!
I second your PGR bump
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