People are so silly. Terry Jones should be an ignored, obscure, rambling street preacher, not a household name. The press have given us another Westboro. :(
Actually, I'm glad he has made the news. He's the norm for the more fundamentalist preachers in this area... and getting this problem of nutcase preachers in front of the people has been very difficult. I've heard worse than him (or that other nutcase Phelps) from local preachers, but the local jackasses don't generally make the news. 30 plus years ago they were calling for death for LGBT people and "secular Humanists" (before Phelps became known)... now it's LGBT people and atheists (and they were including liberals the last I heard) and they're getting more violent and loud. I've also heard calls for banning Christmas (because it's too secularized and people should be miserable in church instead of enjoying themselves with family), curses on the Superbowl and organized sports (because they distract from attending church twice on Sunday), and so on. Even calls for confiscating the possessions of non-Christians as our "stuff" is obviously "blessings" that had been stolen from "Christians" has crossed my "radar". Yeah, it's crazy
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