Westboro Baptist Church gets smacked

[kandrathe]

... Although I realize lawyers are mighty tempting targets, he really does seem to be doing more mischief as a baptist minister these days.

I would only take exception with the above.

According to the Wikipedia;

While its members identify themselves as Baptists, the church is an independent church not affiliated with any known Baptist conventions or associations, nor does any Baptist institution recognize the church as a Bible believing fellowship. The church describes itself as following Primitive Baptist and Calvinist principles. Its first public service was held on the afternoon of Sunday, 27 November 1955.

The church bases its work around the belief expressed by its best known slogan and the address of its primary website, "God hates fags", and expresses the idea, based on its Biblical eisegesis, that nearly every tragedy in the world is linked to homosexuality – specifically society's increasing tolerance and acceptance of the so-called "Homosexual Agenda." The group maintains that God hates homosexuals above all other kinds of "sinners" and that homosexuality should be a capital crime.(link)

And particularly I would note, "...nor does any Baptist institution recognize the church as a Bible believing fellowship...", to which I would add that no other religious institution endorses their world view.

P.S. I poked around some of their web sites (and now I need a shower), and I found their main message to be "God hates you." and mostly "God hates you because you don't hate fags like I do." Much of their teaching is centered around biblical misquotes and out of context misinterpretations in essence proving that their God is a god of hatred. They teach that every miserable thing that happens in this world is the consequence of people accepting homosexuality and sin. They are to me the definition of the term "attention whores". Let the ADL and the SPLC keep an eye on them and some other misguided groups like Watchmen on the Walls, but the rest of us need to not feed the beast and expose them as frauds.