Posted on 12/20/2012 11:44:18 AM PST by raccoonradio
Bikers seem to have thwarted attempts by the Westboro Baptist Church to protest the funeral of Newtown, Conn., shooting victim Principal Dawn Hochsprung.
The vocal right-wing Christian group, whose website is godhatesfags.com, produced a video called "God Sent the Shooter," and has blamed the massacre on gay marriage. It put Hochsprung's funeral on its online "picket schedule."
But there was no sign of the church group, as local newspaper the Newtown Patch live-blogged throughout the day with updates, and reported that people had arrived from as far away as Massachusetts to protect the mourners -- just in case.
Bikers from New York formed a formidable-looking wall of motorcyles.
Late in the day the Patch wrote: "Applause erupted in the crowd ... as it was announced that members of the Westboro Baptist Church were not coming to protest at the wake."
As of Wednesday afternoon, nearly a quarter million people had signed a WhiteHouse.gov petition -- created Dec. 14, the day of the Sandy Hook shooting -- to "legally recognize Westboro Baptist Church as a hate group."
Yep, my wife heard “The Good Guys” roaring through Woodbury yesterday!
After watching the news for many years, I think it makes them republican.
I am furious. I consider myself right wing, and there isn’t one speck of similarities between Westboro, myself or any other right wing person or organization I know. This a$$hole should be made to retract his comment. In fact, I would like to sue him.
Yup.
Where are all the Gay Rights Groups when Westboro Cult protests?
They show up whenever some Christian group goes against gay marraige.....but Gay Rights Groups never show up at Westboro’s “God Hates Fags” themed protests?
Do the Gay Rights Groups fund Westboro Cult?
Always wondered this
Thanks again to our biker groups who are protecting the families from Westboro Cult
STOP CALLING THEM A CHRISTIAN GROUP!!! They are anything but!
The middle of what?
For the believer, the fear of God is something much different. The believer's fear is reverence of God. Hebrews 12:28-29 is a good description of this:
“Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our ’God is a consuming fire.’”This reverence and awe is exactly what the fear of God means for Christians. This is the motivating factor for us to surrender to the Creator of the Universe.
Proverbs 1:7 declares, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge.” Until we understand who God is and develop a reverential fear of Him, we cannot have true wisdom.
Westburo was created by a Democrat Party leader to get this type of response. A Dem friend of mine was shocked when I said that, and more shocked when he did the research and found it to be true.
I have a real problem thinking you are serious.
There are PGR who wear other clothes when they’re not attending these things.
You never know which ones are which.
Broken hands could be the least of their worries.
I’m just sayin’....;]
Yes, the article above wasn’t written by me and whomever wrote it said “right-wing” and “Christian”. I agree with you, they are not... but the writer has it wrong.
Oh, I know you didn’t write it. I am just sick of the media referring to these wackos as “right-wing Christians”.
I predicted they would not show up. Thats their new MO, by posting a "schedule" on their website they get free publicity for their group and never have to leave home.....
The middle of the political circle
The middle of the political circle
Yup :) just making it clear (so, barf alert for that sentence!)
Though supposedly they were at a motel in Hartford.
Supposedly...(for all we know they could have just called
the media and said they were.) But I know what you mean.
How long will they last if they keep this up?
Their MO is pretty clear now, it's too expensive for long trips so they need to be ignored.....
...and maybe a hacker can take down their website.
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