God doesn't hate gays...He hates the Westboro Baptist Church

Oh, boy, I have been waiting a very long time to do this – bash the Westboro Baptist Church. Well, my chance is finally here.

The raving bunch of pseudo-Christians have made the headlines of many newspapers and the top story of many evening news shows for their deplorable protests at the funerals of American soldiers killed in Iraq. Armed with signs reading “God hates your tears”, “God hates America”, “God hates fags”, “Thank God for IEDs”, these pathetic souls picket the burial services of America’s heroes fallen to combat because they feel the United States is a sinful and “doomed nation.”

Run by the Rev. Fred Phelps (who actually looks like he died about seven years ago), the WBC says the U.S. government has disgraced the Lord God and the Holy Bible by creating gay-friendly laws and telling the whole world homosexuality is OK. These psychopaths have been seen inflicting horrific emotional pain into the lives of a deceased’s family by holding protests (for whatever particular reason) mere feet away from a funeral.

They picketed the burial of Matthew Shepherd, a 21-year-old homosexual man who was lured from a college campus bar, tied to a split-rail fence and brutally beaten to death simply because he was gay. Members of the church (if you can even call it a church) shouted harassments at Shepard’s mother, telling her Matthew was burning in hell for committing the ultimate sin – sodomy. Mrs. Shepard was seen crying hysterically as friends and family members tried to console her.

But, gay people aren’t the only ones who suffer the WBC’s wrath. Phelps and his band of idiots are often at the funerals of soldiers killed while defending their country in Iraq – because, since America is a gay-loving nation, they were sent straight to hell. The protesters brought signs that help them spread their love to other victims of tragedy. They like to stand near the funeral procession with banners that say “Thank God for AIDS”, “Thank God for 9/11”, “Thank God for Hurricane Katrina.” No one is spared from this group’s spew of hatred – almost everyone is going to burn because America is ‘tolerant’ of homosexuality.

And these sick bastards just came painfully close to sticking their filthy paws into another American tragedy – the Virginia Tech Massacre. That’s right. The Westboro Baptist Church planned on protesting the funerals of the victims of the horrific shooting at Virginia Tech that killed 32 people on Patriots’ Day. Members say higher education preaches rebelliousness against God and, therefore, these kids deserved to die.

“Why did this happen, you ask? It’s simple,” says godhatesamerica.com, one of the church’s websites. “The Lord your God sent a crazed madman to shoot at your children, and he didn’t miss. Get this straight – God sent this South Korean madman to kill 31 of your children at Virginia Tech. Was God asleep while this place? Was He on vacation? Of course not. He willed this to happen to punish you for assailing His servants.” – This gem comes straight from godhatesamerica.com, one of the WBC’s lovely websites.

The church agreed to cancel all protests related to the Virginia Tech Massacre – with a few stipulations. It suspended all pending pickets, and won’t schedule future pickets, in exchange, however, for three hours of national radio time with Mike Gallagher on his National Radio Show, where its members will openly discuss its religious positions on tragedies like the shootings at VT. They also plan on doing the same routine at the funerals for victims of the tragic tornadoes in Kansas – their home state.

And what about some of their websites – godhatesfags.com, godhatesamerica.com, godhatescanada.com and godhatessweden.com? They all spew the same kind of trash as the rest, but for different reasons. Phelps created the third website in response to the Dominion of Canada passing of a law on April 28, 2004, that makes any criticism of gays a crime punishable by fines and jail time. He created his anti-Sweden site after Pastor Ake Green was imprisoned for preaching that homosexual sex is an abomination.

Yeah, these people are simply beautiful.

I wonder where Phelps attended Sunday school and what kind of Bible he studied. It certainly was not the Bible of the Lord God – that’s for sure. My God loves every one of the creatures He created and would never condemn someone to hell simply for being gay. Phelps and his posse of mentally-warped heathens are using their First Amendment rights (a perk of the so-called “doomed nation” of America) to spread their message of hate.

Mr. Phelps, this God you claim you are speaking for does not exist. The one true God is a loving and caring one and He weeps because of what you are doing. You are sending not His messages, but rather the message of the devil.
But, just to cover all my bases, just in case a God with your frame-of-mind does exist, here is a message from me to you, Mr. Phelps: Take that Holy Bible you have perverted and those mindless drones you have brainwashed and have them forever keep you company in the bowels of Satan’s kingdom.