The Westboro Baptist Church's attack against the city of Joplin and the survivors of the May 22 tornado began in earnest today with a cyber assault on YouTube memorials to Joplin High School graduate Will Norton and JHS student Lantz Hare, both of whom were killed during the tornado.
In the comments, some of which have been removed from the site, the church members, going by the name of their website "God Hates Fags," wrote hurtful things about the two Joplin teens. As they have done at the funerals of American soldiers, the fringe congregation taunted those who loved Will and Lantz by insisting that both of them would "rot in hell." It appears to be an effort to provoke some kind of violent reaction today that would enable the group to launch yet another lawsuit.
The church, led by Rev. Fred Phelps, is scheduled to protest at Sunday's 2 p.m. memorial service for tornado victims at Missouri Southern State University. President Obama and Gov. Jay Nixon are scheduled to speak. The Rev. Randy Gariss will officiate.
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I loathe WBC so much yet I feel so damned sorry for them at the same time.
Posting comments is a "cyberattack" now? Hyperbole.
If posting comments that are designed to hurt people who have lost loved ones is not an attack, then that word has no meaning. It was definitely a cyberattack.
I am a great believer in the law and the first amendment but sometimes I have to think there is a line that can be crossed and I believe WBC is crossing that line.
You don't really have any respect for the rights of others to speak their mind, do you Turner?
Why, you are one with the men of Sodom, who would have been all so very angry at the Angels of the LORD, who because they would not give up their virtue, claimed that the Angels -- and GOD -- were 'judgmental.' Genesis Chapter 19.
And yet Jesus Christ said that the homosexual men of Sodom would be judging the men of the latter day -- say Joplin.
So which is it? Did God hate Joplin, the Sodom of the Ozarks? Or merely indifferent to them, cf. Luke 13:1-5? For until you repent, you are on your own.
Your problem, and that of the rest, is with God, not Fred Phelps.
Posts that declare they are using freedom of speech, that's all, and saying Joplin is Sodom deserve to be just as hated as WBC and should be shunned.
I am a surviver of that tornado. I saw it comming, I saw it eat downtown. Sorry Fred, but there was nothing Godly about it. It was the Devil.
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