Palin Soft on Homos
Presidential candidate Sarah Palin recently voiced disappointment on the Supreme Court ruling regarding the right of Westboro Baptist Church to protest at military funerals. The full text of her tweet reads:
Common sense & decency absent as wacko “church” allowed hate msgs spewed@ soldiers’ funerals but we can’t invoke God’s name in public square
It is shocking, to say the least, that candidate Palin has crossed the line to defend homosexuals by referring to the fine congregation of Westboro Baptist Church as “wacko hate mongers.”
The members of Westboro Baptist Church have been engaged in missionary outreach work at funerals of fallen U.S. soldiers. They have followed the scriptural prerogative best expressed in:
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. (Mark 16:15)
The controversy that ultimately brought the church members to the Supreme Court marble lined chamber lies in the fact their protest signs often carry truisms such as “God hates fags” or introspective calls for prayer such as “Thank God for dead soldiers.”
Controversial as these statements may seem, they have to be examined in the light of scriptural analysis and not through the twisting logic deployed by the liberal media. Strict scriptural adherence is exactly what the Supreme Court Justices have done in their majority opinion awarding the 1st Amendment freedom of speech protection to Westboro Baptist Church.
The intention of pastor Fred Phelps of Westboro Baptist Church is not to dishonor soldiers who gave their lives defending our Christian principles by spreading democracy in Afghanistan and Iraq. His intention is to point out that God is irate that homosexuals can now serve in the military and He is letting our soldiers die so we may realize what Obama is doing to the United States of America.
Sarah Palin has a problem with this. She is calling the pastor Phelps’ strategy a “hate message.” Does she not believe that homosexuals are at the core of all ills that plague our society? Does she not believe that fallen U.S. servicemen depart to a better place so they may spend the whole eternity with our Heavenly Father?
But the most troubling statement in candidate Palin’s tweet is that we mustn’t invoke God’s name in public square. This is a deeply offensive proposition. Is Sarah Palin defending the nonsensical and historically unfounded notion of so-called “separation of church and state” by saying that God’s name is not to be uttered in public? Or perhaps she believes that pastor Phelps’ endeavors are prohibited under the Third Commandment that warns against taking the Lord’s name in vain although “God hates fags” hardly qualifies as taking the Lord’s name in vain.
If candidate Sarah Palin wants to count on continuing support from conservative Christians she needs to come clean and explain her position. We have faith that she will do that on the very pages of Christwire.com before the liberal media will have time to chew and distort her statement.http://hereiblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/westboro.jpg
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Author: Lance Bergman
Lance Bergman was a columnist with The Hoover Gazette until the paper's closing. Lance is also a professional land surveyor blessed with a wonderful wife and three sons.
2:40 am
“the fine congregation of Westboro Baptist Church as “wacko hate mongers.”
The members of Westboro Baptist Church have been engaged in missionary outreach work at funerals of fallen U.S. soldiers. ”
No, the Westboro Baptist Church pickets the funerals of anyone (including 9 year old catholic girls tragically killed) with hate filled signs and chanting. In no way is their outreach.
Fred Phelps is a crazy old man who has made his family the most hated people in all of America.
Fred Phelps once kicked a puppy, just for fun.
Fred Phelps laughs at the animals on the ASPCA commercials.
Fred Phelps is Surely bound for hell.
Fred Phelps is a Joke of a man.
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2:47 am
Why would you claim so?
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9:50 am
WBC’s message is vile and hateful and does nothing to convince non-believers that “god is love”; HOWEVER, in America, they have every right to express their opinions provided those opinions do not bring harm to the individual or to society. There methods aren’t exactly akin to yelling “FIRE!” in a crowded auditorium, but they’re pretty nasty…
With that said, I personally condemn every disgusting word these freaks utter and think that anyone that agrees with them are just as vile and disgusting. Show some respect for the families of our fallen soldiers.
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10:02 am
In my opinion, they lost their freedom of speech when they began infringing on the freedom of families to mourn their loved ones in peace.
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3:45 am
What’s this? You want to allow hate speech in public because you think your god is okay with that? And you’re whining about a celebrity [for Sarah Palin is hardly a politician] and how she disagrees with a group protesting at the funerals of soldiers, because that group is saying that your god killed those soldiers because homosexuals are allowed to serve in the military?
Wow. What complete and utter bullshit. I hate to say it, but it sounds like Palin is saner than you folks. If your god hates homosexuality so much, why doesn’t he just destroy all of us [yes, us] at once? Or he could just make it impossible to be attracted to someone of the same sex/gender.
But, then again, he’d have to exist first, wouldn’t he?
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8:22 am
The WBC are knights of freedom of expression. They sue communities and ensure that these rights are available to all of us. We may not like the extreme message, but all have the freedom to express it.
Sarah Tweeterbird needs to take care of her family and keep that husband out of massage parlors.
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6:18 pm
A laudable affirmation, Blanche. I hardly knew that Mrs. Palin had the time to take out from shooting rabid caribou and attending to her grandchildren to hop on the Twitter and share with us this insipid drivel.
Westboro are revolutionaries in their time. We’ve a thing or two to learn from them as a nation, and hopefully those proud toddler bearing those truth-searing signs in our heartlands’ byways will continue the work of their predecessors when they grow up.
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10:26 am
This is a very tough subject to tackle. I for one see the WBC as very hateful people yet they are Americans. Their speech is a right, is it not?
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11:09 am
As far as I’m concerned, nobody’s right to free speech should infringe upon the rights of others to mourn their dead. Freedom of speech, as with anything else, should have limitations. When freedom of speech is used to do nothing but terrorize good people, especially in times of grief, a line has been crossed.
By the way, Adam, you have previously defending the WBC:
“Though they are a bit liberal I’m happy we have people like the Phelps and their Westboro Baptist Church. They are a good counter to dangerous extremist liberals like Michael Moore, Barack Obama and Jon Stewart.”
http://christwire.org/2010/01/god-hates-lady-gaga-picture-evidence/
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11:10 am
*defended
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2:01 pm
I sense Adam saying “out of context” in response to Claire any minute now…
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3:54 pm
You mean MeAwesome. He’s the one who tries to defend Adam’s racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic statements by saying “durr, those quotes are taken out of context, durr…”
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4:23 pm
I respect Dr. Nelsons opinion, and do so more now than ever that he cleared up the misunderstanding about 2 Nelsons
However Claire said: “As far as I’m concerned, nobody’s right to free speech should infringe upon the rights of others to mourn their dead”
I agree completely, in a recent visit to Arlington national cemetery, arguably the most reverent place in our nation; I was appalled by what I witnessed.
Bussed packed full of Asians were driving around with their tour guides shouting from megaphones. Foreigners standing on grave markers honoring dead astronauts. Standing to get their smiling picture taken in front of the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A Frenchman lighting a cigarette at the eternal flame at JFK’s resting place. I take my hat off and walk in a cemetery, I don’t drive. I speak quietly and respectfully. If there is any place where I think where freedom of speech should be suspended it would be in a cemetery. However any tampering with basic rights is a very slippery slope.
I would encourage all readers to demand to their congressman that only US citizen be allowed to visit Arlington national cemetery unless special arrangements have been made.
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6:55 pm
depend where the Bus is if it’s in cemetary by itself it’s would be okay to be quiet but if it’s on the road past the cemetary it’s still “public” area
oh and Tour Guide are american the tourist are not
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7:02 pm
These busses were driving in the cemetery. Very loud. I considered it disrespectful. The tour guides may have been American or may have been interpreters along for the ride.
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12:59 am
You are absolutely right Adam. Their right to free speech is constitutionally guaranteed- as has been underlined by the Supreme Court.
One of the issues about free speech is that sometimes you are going to hear people say things you don’t want to. That’s why it’s disappointing that Sarah Palin doesn’t understand that freedom of speech is a right in the USA and that the Westoboro Baptists are exercising that right same as anyone else can do.
I won’t comment on the correctness or otherwise of what they are saying as that seems to be a polarizing issue that people have already made their minds up about, however there is little doubt that they have the right to say it.
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12:40 pm
personally they don’t deserve the right of free speech it’s a privilege that Must be earned, in their case they don,t deserve it because they will bring more hate than Love Freedom of speech is good but when there is no censorship you get more hate and more war and more crime like these
How many crime like murder started by Only hate speech? you don’t even have enough finger to count them all
But the opposite is true as well too much censorship is not good neither ( and no I don’t point at china but at North korea or much more closer to actual event: the arab countries
there is 2 sides the problem is we can’t have a “center”
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3:40 pm
I think Sarah Palin misspoke when she said she wanted God out of homosexuals.
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4:36 pm
“I respect Dr. Nelsons opinion, and do so more now than ever that he cleared up the misunderstanding about 2 Nelsons”
You clearly don’t have a full understanding of the two Nelsons. Real Adam is the sexist, racist, homophobic bigot who says crap like the quote I posted above. His name links to afr.net. Fake Adam was originally created to mock Real Adam and fool people into thinking that he was posting sexually explicit stuff. However, that ended long ago. Several years ago Fake Adam ceased trying to make others think that he was Real Adam. He now simply uses the name and posts normal stuff under it. Oh, and Real Adam is not really a doctor. He’s a quack.
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4:47 pm
I got it, I was confused and now I am not. Which one did it on purpose to try and confuse people and cause chaos?
Anyway thanks for focusing on and only reading that part of the post.
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2:27 am
Although I agree with the Westboro Baptist’s message, I think Momma Bear knows what’s best for our nation. Cemeteries are holy, somber places for remembrance. Westboro should stick with protesting at our disgustingly liberal schools and collages enlightening our future generations.
God bless you all.
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6:45 pm
Westboro is a great recruitment aid to the non religous I hope they keep up the good work.
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6:47 pm
welll thats wierd
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7:48 pm
heh
soft
LIKE MY DICK WHEN I THINK ABOUT HOMOS!!!!
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