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vandalized home of fallen soldier</FONT> <FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Associated Press</FONT> <FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2></FONT> </P><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=2> KOKOMO, Ind. — Police posted an around-the-clock security watch at the home of an Indiana soldier killed last week in Iraq after it was vandalized and his family received disturbing phone calls.</P> The home of Sgt. Rickey Jones was egged Saturday, three days after Jones’ family learned the 21-year-old and three other soldiers had been killed by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad. His family also received phone calls in which the caller said: “I’m glad your son is dead.”</P> The actions drew the attention of their congressman, Rep. Steve Buyer, a Republican who also chairs the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee.</P> “It is outrageous, appalling and indecent for an American citizen to commit crimes and perversions against a family grieving at the loss of their son,” Buyer said. </P> On Thursday, he spoke on the House floor asking his fellow lawmakers to stand and observe a moment of silence “to condemn these despicable acts.”</P> “A great virtue of the American character is our compassion. It is how we care for each other in good times and in difficult times,” he said. “It is our compassion and human decency that represents the very best of our nation.”</P> Jones’ relatives and police are bracing for the possibility that a Topeka, Kan.-based group will protest at his funeral Monday.</P> Members of the Westboro Baptist Church have protested at military funerals across the nation, including shouting insults at soldiers’ surviving relatives and holding signs that read “God Made IEDs” — a reference to roadside bombs.</P> The group claims American soldiers are dying in Iraq due to divine intervention because the United States harbors homosexuals.</P> The Westboro protesters, however, could face new restrictions at Jones’ funeral if Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels signs a bill this week that would make disorderly conduct at a funeral a felony and keep protesters at least 500 feet from a gravesite.</P> That bill, which won final approval Tuesday from the Indiana House, would take effect immediately after being signed by Daniels. The governor’s press secretary, Jane Jankowski, said Daniels would sign the bill as soon as it arrives on his desk.</P> “We’re trying to get this family some closure, and not have to deal with these stupid signs,” state Rep. John Smith, R-Kokomo, said Tuesday.</P> State Sen. Brent Steele, who authored the legislation, said the bill doesn’t go as far as some states’ attempts to hold back protests by the Westboro group.</P> “I went as far as I thought I could and still have a constitutional bill,” said Steele, R-Bedford.</P> Mark Potok, a spokesman for the Southern Poverty Law Center, said it’s still an open question whether some of the new laws restricting picketing are entirely constitutional.</P> He said his civil rights organization has listed the Westboro Baptist Church as a hate group for years. The minister who leads the group advocates making homosexuality a capital offense</P></FONT> |
These ****ers need to be dealt with. This crap is getting ridiculous.
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<H2>Church's position: ‘America is doomed'</H2>
From Staff Reports</P> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 align=right border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD></TD></TR> <TR> <TD><SPAN class=cutline></SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> A fax sent to the Neosho Daily News office last Saturday outlined the Westboro Baptist Church's position on homosexuality, and offered reasons why the church is picketing the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The fax was sent as a press release about why the church decided to picket a March 1 ceremonial signing of legislation placing prohibitions on funeral picketing. “Here's the preaching they hate: God is killing the soldiers in wrath and vengeance against an evil nation that has gone the way of Sodom,” the release read, quoting Jeremiah 18:21 to back up this statement. “Further, when God kills a soldier under these circumstances, we are commanded not to lament him or give him an honorable burial.” To back up this statement, the release again quoted from Jeremiah, this time chapter 22, verses 18 and 19. “They shall not lament for him saying, ‘Ah my brother!' or, ‘Ah my sister!' they shall not lament for him saying ‘Ah lord! or, ‘Ah his glory!' He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.” “God will punish Missouri,” the release states in bold letters. According to the release, the WBC's purpose is to educate as well as “reprove, rebuke and exhort.” “WBC holds the following truths to be self-evident, and to be a harbinger of sodomite America's doom:</P> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=1 align=right border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD></TD></TR> <TR> <TD width=1><SPAN class=cutline></SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> ????. God has suckered this evil nation into a bloody war and is killing our kids - blowing them to smithereens with Iraqi IEDs - for spitting in His Face, by contending and teaching our kids the lie: It's OK to be gay; ????. They have turned America over to the fags; they're coming home in body bags; ????. God's weapon of choice to punish sinful, sodomite America is the cheap, homemade IED; ????. God's forum of choice to deliver His message is the funeral of kids blown to smithereens by the IED; ????. Unprincipled, demagogic politicians think they can do an end run around the First Amendment. It's irresistible to pandering demagogues because maudlin, Bible-ignorant Americans worship dead bodies and bloody fag flags, pursing their own sinful lusts; ????. America has sinned away her day of grace and America is no longer blessed of God, but is not irreversibly cursed of God.” “God is now America's Terrorist,” the release concludes. “America's implacable Enemy. America is doomed.”</P> |
<H1>Anti-gay protesters show up at Marine's funeral</H1>
<H6>Associated Press</H6> <SPAN class=dateline>NEW KINGSTOWN, Pa.</SPAN><SPAN class=dateline-separator> - </SPAN>A small group of anti-gay protesters from a Kansas church showed up Thursday at a memorial service for a U.S. Marine Corps captain killed in a helicopter crash.</P> Three women and one man sang "God Bless America," while holding signs with messages such as "God is your enemy," "Thank God for dead soldiers," and "You're going to Hell" across the street from the service at Trinity United Methodist Church.</P> Capt. Bryan Willard, 33, of Enola, was killed Feb. 17 when his helicopter crashed into the Red Sea off the eastern coast of Africa.</P> The protesters came from the Westboro Baptist Church, a tiny independent congregation in Topeka that consists mostly of the relatives of its pastor, the Rev. Fred Phelps. Members of the congregation have shown up at military funerals nationwide, arguing that U.S. military deaths are divine punishment for a country that Phelps says harbors homosexuals.</P> A group of veterans, Marines and motorcycle groups also showed up as a counter-protest and the members of the Kansas congregation left after about one-half hour.</P> "You're not in Kansas anymore!" Sandy Wyland shouted after them. "You're in New Kingstown, Pennsylvania! And don't come back!"</P> |
I can't beleive no one has done these scum serious bodily harm yet. Every time I hear about them I just want to go to their next protest with a ball bat and cave their skulls in! F'ucking animals!
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Tank...
Don't think for one second I haven't had those same thoughts. I would love for one of these "do good-ers" to explain why my son is fighting for their right to disgrace fallen comrades in arms. This show of negligence to our country should be rewarded with a one-way ticket out of here...or better yet, plant them!!! Just my POV. LC |
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