Posted on 07/18/2015 6:44:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A Twitter account allegedly run by Westboro Baptist church says that the congregation intends to protest the funerals of the military members killed in Chattanooga earlier this week. The account claims that God sent the shooter to kill the servicemembers and it insinuates that their murders are part of God’s punishment for America moving away from their Biblical standards.
From Times Free Press:
Claiming that God sent the gunman to the military installations in Chattanooga, Westboro Baptist on Saturday indicated that it planned to protest the funerals of the slain Marines and Sailor.
Blaming the killings in part on the acceptance of gay marriage in the U.S., the church said it would protest the funerals “with a helpful message.”
Wesboro is disgustingly out-of-line in their thinking. It sickens me to know people can be so disrespectful in light of a tragedy. Thankfully the Chattanooga community caught wind of Westboro’s plans and locals are preparing to counter the church’s picketing.
But locals have already begun planning a counter protest if Westboro does show up. A Facebook group called “Wall against Westboro” has already garnered more than 9,600 members to organize a peaceful counter protest “where we as a community show these families our admiration for their loved ones.”
In recent years, Westboro Baptist has made a name for itself by protesting the funerals of U.S. servicemen in an attempt to raise awareness of what they say is God’s vengeance for the country’s move away from what they see as Biblical standards.
In another tweet from their account, the church wrote of the dead service members: “What we know is God Hates them! The only merciful thing now is warn the living.”
This isn’t the first time the church has arranged these despicable protests. The church had also planned a protest for the funerals of the Charleston shooting victims killed in June.
I hope Westboro has a change of heart and realizes just how messed up it is to protest the funerals of the fallen military members.
I sense there will be TROUBLE!
Interesting to see that this very tiny group of perverted, inbred, loud leftist lawyer cult of related freaks are still being reported on, as if they were in fact an actual church, political movement, or were even loosely related to Christianity.
I have often wondered if they are on the CAIR payroll, or if many media outlets just love to give any undue attention to the most obnoxious deranged individuals they can find, to “improve ratings”.
Well look for something like rolling thunder to show up and block them a mile down the road.
ya Know...
of ONE of the victims had been BLACK....there could have been an opportunity to see westboro pitted against Revrunt Sharptons rag tag group of scumbags
now THAT could have set off a Popcorn Shortage!!
Westboro need accidents
They know that. These people only benefit the left. There is a picture floating around the internet of them with Al Gore. They used to be Democrats. It is my strong belief that they still are and that they are just a stage show to mock traditional values and religious people.
YOUR MSM will be there with a big spoon to force feed us all with their BS.
Ignore them and they will die and blow away.
Friends of Obama.
Amen to that.
Zactly .... sit back and watch the show. Of course Revrund Charlatan would be somewhere in the background urging his followers forward. Coward that he is.
Where were these yahoos to be found when Barack Obama lit the White House up in a “gay” rainbow?
They are never, ever where they would be useful. They seem to get their rocks off over damning the parties that have about the least to do with the plague.
These clowns came to my hometown to protest at a soldiers funeral, and I cut out of work to go see if I could interfere with them. I could not even get close to the funeral because of the motorcycles, cops, off duty cops, and others that were there to protect the mourners from these Westboro freaks. I don’t think they had the courage to show up.
In Muskogee, OK someone slit the tires on the Westboro freaks van. They called the police who pointed down the road and said, “the Walmart down there sells tires.” The police got back in their car and drove off.
They claim that dead American soldiers are God’s punishment for this nation’s support of homosexuality. This, however, is sick and twisted way to make that point. They are themselves the work of Satan.
God may be punishing America by letting the devil have some of his way with it.
But still. It isn’t God who is laughing and pointing at the destruction. It goes clear back to “Who told you that you were naked?”
AL was far more entertaining when he weighed 400 pounds...
Revrunt Al would have to cogimotate OVERTIME to come up with the approproate t shirt slogan
A Facebook group called “Wall against Westboro” has already garnered more than 9,600 members to organize a peaceful counter protest
The group’s page is not available...
A disgusting group.
I don’t remember them protesting the killing of the nine church members. How come poor Obama didn’t get a little love from the crazy group when he spoke at the funeral? Oh wait, the only crazies are following Trump. /s
I can’t say I care about the way they spread their message. I don’t much agree with the practice of protesting.
But I also don’t care that they do it. Words don’t hurt people and their reasoning seems designed simply to inflame opposition rather than to inspire thought that could lead to support.
To that end I can’t help but wonder what their intentions are. After all if a military vet is guilty simply because of his association with an army that is under Obama’s order forced to do bad things. They themselves are just as associated with that government doing equally bad things.
Guilt by association requires a more direct choice based link for there to be any merit at all, if there even could be merit.
Speaking as an old Marine (no such thing as ex) and biker. Sometimes I just want to f’ people up for general principle.
This bunch has been lucky so far, they must have gobs of police protection. Their about ready to get some understanding though. May they never be caught sucking on the end of a thunder header.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.