NOT like Jesus -Westboro Antichrists

A friend of mine, not a blogger, is a guy who like to play fantasy sports. He and I have been in leagues together for probably at least three years. He is a teenager, a very smart guy, and I am glad to know him. He emailed me today:

Dear Radar,

I'm sending this to you because you have the largest audience of anyone I can think. Reading about this group and watching this video made me sick to my stomach, I'm sure you and all of your readers would feel the same way. As Louis Brandeis said, "Sunlight is the best disinfectant," and I'm hoping you won't mind shedding some on these whackos.

Regards,
Nick (my friend)


He was referring to the Westboro Baptist Church. Many of us in the blogosphere have already spoken out about these guys.

Nick sent me this video link. I suppose it speaks for itself. It takes a bit to load but be patient, you really should see this.

Now, you can get a big camel and walk around with him downtown with a rope tied around his neck. You can put a big sign on that camel that reads, "Dog". If you are a very talented animal trainer you may even teach the camel to bark. But that camel will never, ever be a dog.

In the same way, these Westboro people can call themselves Christians and their organization a church but anyone with a lick of sense can see that they are nothing but an ungodly organization of haters along the lines of Ku Klux Klansmen and Skinheads. Look at this link again. See what these WBC idiots say. They hate Jews and Gays and Blacks and in fact they hate other Christians and they hate America. They hate soldiers. They hate.

To support them, to defend them, to give them any credit at all is contemptible. Jesus went to the poorer parts of town and sought out those who were ignored by others. He would eat and drink and talk with them, heal their diseases and invite them to follow Him. There is not one man or woman on this planet that Jesus would treat in the manner the WBC people act towards anyone who disagrees with their whacko worldview.

Addendum -

FRANKFORT, Ky. — The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit Monday, challenging a new Kentucky law that limits protests at funerals.

The law is an an attempt to prevent disruptions at military funerals. The law was aimed at members of the Westboro Baptist Church Cult, who have toured the country protesting military funerals with signs saying such things as, "God Hates Fags", and "Thank God For Dead Soldiers." Members of the cult believe the soldiers' deaths are a sign of God punishing America for tolerating homosexuality.

I believe the First Amendment protects people's right to peacefully assemble. I find it odd that the ACLU are not protecting the right of those who wish to mourn the fallen to assemble without being harassed by lunatic cultists.

Kentucky should have seen the challenge coming. Similar legislation was opposed by the ACLU in Louisiana and Tennessee.

However, in this case it doesn't seem to be the cultists that the ACLU are worried about. They claim that it could lead to an innocent bystander being targeted.

Lili S. Lutgens, an attorney for the ACLU in Louisville, said a portion of the law is overly broad in the limitations it places on freedom of speech and on freedom of expression.

"The language is so broad that two people holding a conversation on a sidewalk, if there's a funeral going on the funeral home, then they'd be in violation," Lutgens said. "Somebody who was whistling as they walked down the sidewalk, if a funeral was in earshot, then they would also be in violation."

Yeah right! Once again the ACLU are blind to good common sense and decency in favor of some absolutist view on free speech. The laws being presented are not infringing upon their right to expression. They can go 500 to 1,000 feet away and protest all they want. What this legislation is attempting to do is no different than laws that protect political figures from protesters with reasonable buffer zones. It is also odd that the ACLU have fought on the opposite side when those being protested against were abortion clinics. However it isn't suprising, as we see more and more everyday, that the ACLU are selective in what kind of messages they protect as free speech, and which ones they either ignore or downright fight against.