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Picketers from the Westboro church group of Topeka, Ks., spread their bombastic slogans of hate in front of Asbury Methodist Church in Tulsa October 23. (Photo from the church's own website).
Bad cases make for bad law
It's tempting to want to give in to hate, but the proper Christian response to Westboro fanatics is prayer, love
By David Jones
No doubt you’ve already heard about the road warrior protesters of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka. They’ve been to Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Broken Arrow and Edmond and that’s just since fall began, raising their angry banners in front of churches and at the gates of cemeteries. Led by a septuagenarian Mississippi native by the name of Fred Phelps, their crusade is to picket at the funerals of American soldiers who have died in Iraq or Afghanistan. This has taken them from Michigan and Wisconsin to Texas.
Why American servicemen? Phelps preaches that since “God hates homosexuals” and U.S. society protects and promotes homosexuality, then America has incurred the wrath of God, who is punishing the nation through terrorism (i.e. 9/11), natural disasters (“God bless Katrina”) and every soldier’s death overseas, especially those who are killed by improvised explosive devices, or IEDs.
New Vatican rules should help restore confidence in the priesthood
“If you collect all of the seminary graduates between 1970 and 1973, 10-11% of them abused children. That’s an amazing fact. This behavior was homosexual predation on American Catholic youth, yet it’s not being discussed.”
-- Dr. Paul McHugh
Former psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital
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