Lord, strike down the Baptists!
The Westboro Baptist Church is proving again that they are insensitive jerks and non-Christian assholes!
Before you read that article, the context is last weekend’s shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords where, 19 people were shot, Six died, and 13 were wounded, including Giffords, who was shot in the head.
Susan Hileman had taken a young neighbor, who had been elected to her elementary school student council, to meet their congresswoman. When the gunman opened fire, Hileman, 58, was hit three times. She survived, but her young friend, 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green, was shot in the chest and killed. - LA Times Article
One of those killed was a 9 year old girl, Christina Green, who was shot and later died in the hospital. Her funeral is being targeted by the Baptists, thereby denying the Green family the time or space to come to terms with their grief. I cannot conceive of a more despicable and non-Christian action than to hold a protest rally and thereby disrupt the funerary services of Christina Green. My sympathy goes out to her parents.
The actions were prompted by the Westboro Baptist Church, a publicity-seeking Kansas congregation known for demonstrating at the funerals of U.S. soldiers, arguing that their deaths are retribution by God for America’s acceptance of homosexuality. The church announced it would protest Green’s funeral, scheduled for Thursday, because the family is Catholic.
It is bad enough that the Green family lost their daughter in this incident. They have to come to terms with it and to let families come to those terms in peace is a part of the core of Christianity. However, these assholes are violating their own precepts with this protest. This could get some of them shot on those grounds alone and frankly, I wouldn’t blame the family.
…because the family is Catholic.
Arizona is one of those States where over 60% of the population is Catholic. Maybe the Baptist churches and all of their members need to be shunned?
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