protest at military funeral

[Jason]

The link to the article seems to be dead.

I think I get the basics of what was going on though.  As a Christian I've been taught to love everyone for whom they are regardless of their beliefs and choices as we are ALL sinners and all make bad choices and mistakes.  I think the proper thing to have done would be to pray for the families.  There is nothing wrong with spreading the word of God, but protesting with a negative message in the name of God is not a good way to make your point.

As far as the right to protest in a peaceful manner, it is allowed by the Constitution and should remain so.

[Sportmotor]

Karma is a powerful thing.

so is a 155grain TAP bullet at about 1100 feet per second

[Shwaz]

Well look whose coming to Jacksonville... straight from their website:

5/01/2010   6:45 PM - 7:30 PM   Jacksonville, FL

Douglas Anderson School of the Arts 2445 San Diego Road WBC to picket yet another of your goofy Laramie Project farces. The Laramie Project is a tacky attempt to teach the youth of this nation that it's okay to by gay. Shame on you!!! Matthew Shepard's death doesn't change the standards put forth by God. It never has been and never will be okay to be gay. Shepard was killed by another fag over drugs and money. It has nothing to do with him being a fag. Shame on you simpletons. america is DOOMED. Wake up - Luke 17:28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. 30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. The return of the Lord Jesus Christ is a hand and you earthdwellers continue to worship at the feet of the fags! Antichrist, Beast Obama is going to demand (shortly now) that you kill children, elderly, infirmed on demand, and you brutish Floridians will LOVE THAT! You have no moral standing. Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Praise God for those easy-to-be-understood set of facts. AMEN!

There is also a local group on Facebook coming together to demonstrate against them.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=379731298448&ref=nf

Personally I would love to see every citizen of Jacksonville completely avoid this area May 1st... let them spend all the money and time to travel here and get zero attention from no one passing bye.

[Sportmotor]

This is a predominately Southern Baptist town with the old ways still strong.
They don't bother me as much as the military funeral protesters. I laugh at these people saying "God Hates Fags" as they go against the very idea of Christianity. The irony of these people is delicious, and I wouldn't even waist an effort of a breath to even sigh at them.

I just smile and look better, make more, am happier, and am truly more loved then these peons ever hope to.  
Edit: ^ OK that was my daily allotment of being a sexy sexy conceded bastard ^

Edit: Edit:

http://www.youtube.com/v/OFkeKKszXTw&hl

[Shwaz]

This is the same group that protests military funerals....

[Sportmotor]

Then I hope a 18-wheeler skids and rolls hiting them all

[buckethead]

BALTIMORE - The father of a Marine killed in Iraq and whose funeral was picketed by anti-gay protesters from Kansas was ordered to pay the protesters' appeal costs, his lawyers said Monday.

On Friday, Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ordered Snyder to pay $16,510 to Fred Phelps. Phelps is the leader of Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church, which conducted protests at Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder's funeral in 2006.

The two-page decision supplied by attorneys for Albert Snyder of York, Pa., offered no details on how the court came to its decision.

Attorneys also said Snyder is struggling to come up with fees associated with filing a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court.

The decision adds "insult to injury," said Sean Summers, one of Snyder's lawyers.

The high court agreed to consider whether the protesters' message is protected by the First Amendment or limited by the competing privacy and religious rights of the mourners.


Read more: http://www.kansas.com/2010/03/29/1246609/marines-dad-ordered-to-pay-protesters.html#ixzz0jgSBs3XK

[finehoe]

A little history:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_baptist

[Sportmotor]

That is why you kill those people, not wound.

[Ocklawaha]

Whatever righteous cause the Jewish victims of the 1930sâ€"40s Nazi Holocaust had, (probably minuscule, compared to the Jewish Holocausts against Middle Passage Blacks, African Americans and Christiansâ€"including the bloody persecution of Westboro Baptist Church by Topeka Jews in the 1990s), has been drowned in sodomite semen. American taxpayers are financing this unholy monument to Jewish mendacity and greed and to filthy fag lust. Homosexuals and Jews dominated Nazi Germany . . . The Jews now wander the earth despised, smitten with moral and spiritual blindness by a divine judicial stroke . . . And God has smitten Jews with a certain unique madness . . . Jews, thus perverted, out of all proportion to their numbers energize the militant sodomite agenda… Jews are the real Nazis.

Well this sort of puts it all in prospective, this guy and his minions are about as Baptist as the Pope. Looks to me as someone who grew up mostly in Independent Baptist Churches, another cult of pseudo-Nazi nuts, desperately trying to get their name in your newspaper. Such attention empowers them to continue their downward spiral. In their own little way, these groups usually degenerate to the point of staging their own version of kristallnacht, followed by REAL storm troopers (FBI-ATF-SWAT etc) bashing down their door in a bloody massacre. Once this happens they get one or two last headlines, albeit Epitaphs...

Well when it happens, a big Ocklawaha Woopie Freaking do! As we say in Colombia when the trash bites the street, "ONE LESS BISCUIT!"



OCKLAWAHA

[Dog Walker]

They shoot mad dogs don't they?

And Ock, what is the origin of "biscuit" or is it a slang term for cow pie?  En Espanol, Por Favor.

[samiam]

Bill Oreilly pays fine for Snyder family. You have to respect that.



http://davidbellavia.com/new/2010/bill-oreilly-pays-fine-for-snyder-family-against-westboro-church/

[Ocklawaha]

They shoot mad dogs don't they?

And Ock, what is the origin of "biscuit" or is it a slang term for cow pie?  En Espanol, Por Favor.

That's my best "redneck" translation. Actually it's, "un arepa menos." Since no one in Jacksonville probably knows what an arepa is, I corrupted it into biscuit.  (BTW, it is a fine white corn meal cake, m/l the thickness of a hamburger patty, tender, cooked over a cedar wood fire for best effect. Can also be slit and filled with ham and eggs then deep fried)

Sort of a Colombian way of saying "Oh well, one less idiot to feed!"  I first heard this from a policeman back in the bad old days of 1982. I had just entered a downtown building, closed the metal door, and was at the officers kiosk to check in and go upstairs when someone cut loose with a machine gun outside the door. The cop was still reading the comic's and got up, laid down his paper, walked over and opened the door, he then shut the door, shrugged and said, "Un arepa menos!"  I then learned the fine art of stepping over "the resuscitated cockroaches of Colombia," (as they called the cartels).

OCKLAWAHA