GodHatesFags.com is Expanding

A fringe Kansas church that claims Americans soldiers deserve to die in Iraq because the church was the target of a bombing attempt plans to demonstrate at the funeral of a Moorhead soldier.

Sgt. Bryan Opskar was killed on July 23 when a roadside bomb exploded. A military spokesman says the 32-year-old Marine was conducting combat operations near Ar Rutbah, Iraq.

Ten members of the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) of Topeka, Kansas, plan to picket for 30 minutes before Opskar’s funeral in Moorhead on Tuesday, said Shirley Phelps-Roper, church attorney and daughter of church minister Fred Phelps.

The church operates at least two Web sites - godHatesAmerica.com and GodHatesFags.com - and links soldiers’ deaths in Iraq to a bomb that exploded on its compound in 1995. (source)

There will always be crazy people in the world. This is about crazy, deranged people. The Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, is run by Fred Phelps and his congregation, which is made up mostly of his family members. They have made a habit of protesting at the funerals of gay men in the past, including the funeral of Matthew Shepard. On their website, godhatesfags.com, they even have a counter showing how many days Matthew has “been in Hell”. Nice huh?

More recently, they have tried to put up monuments around various states, such as Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming with Matthew’s picture on it saying that he and all homosexuals will be damned to Hell. Of course, he somehow gets around all the other “sins” specifically spelled out in the Bible, but I suppose what ever works...

But now, the group seems to be getting bored (less press?) with gays and are expanding their interests. Now, they are picketing the funerals of service men killed in Iraq. It’s a bit confusing, but apparently they picketed this soldiers funeral because he was killed by an improvised explosive devices (IED), just like one they claimed was used against their church to stop their anti-gay preaching.

This is their position on the war:

Thank God for IEDs killing American soldiers in strange lands every day.

WBC rejoices every time the Lord God in His vengeance kills or maims an American soldier with an Improvised Explosive Device (IED). “The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked” (Ps. 58:10).

This nation bombed and raided the Westboro Baptist Church, and now the Holy God that Inhabits Eternity is repaying those heinous acts with His retaliatory wrath; “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord” (Rom. 12:19).

To most effectively cause America to know her abominations (Ez. 16:2), WBC will picket the funerals of these Godless, fag army American soldiers when their pieces return home. WBC will also picket their landing spot, in Dover, Delaware early and often.

See, I knew that would clarify it for you. These people are absolutely crazy.