Their message, however, fell on deaf ears, like those of Randy Roberts, who drove up from Millsboro on Saturday to show his support for the Bidens. Roberts, who carried a sign reading “GOD’S US ALL GAY, BLACK & BEAU,” was part of a counter protest group that held large pink signs and walked in front of the three Westboro members, briefly blocking their demonstration from view.
Well, he was in the National Guard, and they’re opposed to the U.S. military.
I thought Westboro was primarily against homosexuality, I cant remember ever hearing them speak about any of their other beliefs, surely they must have an opinion on abortion, death penalty, etc?
They are extremely anti Catholic as well.
They are anti-everything. They will picket any high profile funeral so that they can get some coverage.
They’ve begun picketing funerals to make their point. It offends me that they are even allowed to be called a “church” since what they are is a hate group. And I wonder how many people may have been turned off of Christ by Westboro’s actions.
Since he was the son of the Vice President, it was an opportunity for publicity. That’s all they want.
We had an unfortunately case here where a man killed his wife and 4 kids with a baseball bat and then committed suicide. Because he was Catholic Westboro was here in my medium sized town in Iowa to picket. They were holding up wife killer and baby killer signs at the funeral.
Well, yes, in a way, but I would be very hesitant in saying that. If the government gets to designate churches “hate groups,” how long will it be before a homily saying that “we should love and respect homosxuals, but they cannot marry,” causes the Catholic Church to be labeled a “hate group?”
It’s not just funerals anymore. There was a major protestant convention in our town and they showed up for that.
This is a good point. My dislike of Westboro is visceral and obviously not grounded in logic. Clearly, following the likely chain of events, it’s best to leave them be for the reasons you stated. I wasn’t suggesting they not be allowed to do their activities, I just wish it were more clear they aren’t a church in the true sense of the word. I liken them more to the KKK.
They showed up in my town one year at our local university graduation; only the newspaper paid them the slightest attention.
I know. Their activities are an insult to Christ, because they use His name. I guess the best thing we can do is to pray that they repent, although my dislike has caused me not to think of doing that until right this minute. So I guess I’ve had a bit of repenting to do, too. Again.
I agree with you on this. They have no religious conviction that makes any sense at all, unless you believe that God wants you to hate your fellow man. People see them on TV with their mad signs and think ‘there you go, that’s a Christian for you’.
In this case, they sound pretty dumb…of course the guy was a wife and baby killer, no need to really protest that, everyone likely agreed, were they protesting another group trying to say the guy was not guilty or…??, thats kind of the same thing as holding protests outside of Charles mansons cell, with signs that read KILLER…well, duh, of course he is a killer.