Gay-bashers bashed

I can't normally feel too approving about huge damages being paid for mere offence, but the story in today's TImes does rather lift the heart.  The father of a dead American soldier has won over five million quid damages against a fundamentalist church which routinely disrupts military funerals because it believes the war in Iraq is a punishment for liberal attitudes to homosexuality.
   How anything calling itself a Christian church can be so cruel, dismissive of dutifulness and crass towards the mystery of death is itself a mystery. The Westboro Baptist church is appealing.  No, not in that sense. They insist they'll go on poncing around funerals with their posters saying  “God hates fags” and “Thank God for dead soldiers".  Judge not and ye shall not be judged, you creeps!

Comments

[Tony Francis]

Fred Phelps and his daughter are lawyers, as are many in the group. A Topeka lawyer once told me: "If Fred Phelps can get it in front of a jury, he will always win. He has a hypnotic effect on a captive audience. It is like an old time gospel preacher." He gave up lawyering years ago as did his daughter. This present tack of the Westboro Baptist Church is just bizarre. The argument for "free speech" seems a stretch. I think funerals should be off limits. States and the feds can write laws to restrict "protests" which are constitutional. They should do that.

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church
Any resemblence to Christianity is strictly illusory. That is my opinion.

[Geoffrey Smith]

I agree with your sentiments entirely, Libby, but the problem is that the militant homosexual lobby will use these "Christians" to smear all of us who are critical of their life-style. In their eyes, we Christians (Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox, etc) are all the same, no different from that American sect.

[Brien Comerford]

I am impressed that family members of soldiers have restrained themselves from killing these "religious" bigots. I do think that the homosexual lobby needs to be a bit more refined because sometimes they incite hatred from hateful people.