This just makes me so sick and furious! I am so glad that the good people of Ohio have passed a law limiting how close the protests can get. Please someone tell me how people can go from believing in God to believing they speak for him, and how they KNOW that God hates our military, and our country. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND.
I am going to be praying for the Lauterbach family, they have lost their daughter and her nearly term baby in such a horrific way. No family should have to endure losing a child and then to be tortured by inbred idiot protesters.
H/T-Moonbeam McQueen
From the Dayton Daily News.
http://www.daytondailynews.com/o/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/homefront/entries/2008/01/29/fundamentalist.htm
Fundamentalist church to protest Lauterbach funeral
By Margo Rutledge Kissell Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 11:51 AM
By Margo Rutledge Kissell and Laura A. Bischoff
Staff Writers
Members of a fundamentalist Kansas church who protest military funerals out of the belief the war in Iraq is punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality plan to picket Saturday's funerals of Marine Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach of Vandalia and a fallen soldier from Wapakoneta.
Shirley Phelps-Roper, daughter of Westboro Baptist Church's pastor, the Rev. Fred Phelps, confirmed Tuesday church members plan to picket the funerals of Lauterbach and Army Sgt. Jon Michael Schoolcraft III.
"The main reason is because God hates the U.S. military. God hates America and America is doomed," Phelps-Roper said in a phone interview from the Topeka, Kan., church.
Ohio has a law requiring protesters to stay 300 feet (the length of a football field) from funeral ceremonies, processions and burials.
The legislation was introduced by State Sen. John Boccieri, D-New Middletown, an Air Force Reserve major who said he was disturbed by Westboro Baptist Church members protesting military funerals.
Boccieri has flown missions carrying fallen and wounded soldiers out of Iraq and Afghanistan.
When he introduced the legislation while serving in the Ohio House, members from Westboro Baptist Church showed up.
"They protested me at the statehouse when I introduced the bill," he said, noting the law does not limit the requirements to protest from a respectful distance to military funerals.
"It would encompass any protest," he said.
Both the Ohio House and Ohio Senate unanimously passed the legislation in May 2006. The law went into effect on Sept. 4, 2006.
The law prohibits picketing or other protest activities within 300 feet of the site of a funeral or burial service during, within one hour before and one hour after the service; and of a funeral procession.
If an organization violates the law, it's a fourth degree misdemeanor. If an individual violates it, is a third degree misdemeanor.
Boccieri, who serves with the 910th Airlift Wing based near Youngstown, said he believes in freedom of speech but also the right to privacy for a grieving family.
"I think that they're coming because of the publicity," he said."They go around to these emotionally charged situations like that."
Vandalia Police Lt. Harry Busse said that because of the unique shape and location of St. Christopher Catholic Church, where Lauterbach's funeral will be held at 10 a.m., "300 feet away won't even let them close to the church."
Schoolcraft's funeral will be at 1 p.m. at Wapokoneta Senior High School.
The Patriot Guard Riders, a national group that formed in response to the church protesters, will be at both funerals to support the families and shield them from the protesters.
"I can promise you if there is anybody there that should not be there, the Lauterbach family will never know. That's our job. We take care of the family," said Harrison Twp. resident Terri Monnin, who is the Ohio State Help on the Homefront coordinator for the Patriot Guard Riders.
Lauterbach, 20, a 2006 graduate of Butler High School in Vandalia, was stationed at Camp Lejeune, N.C. when she disappeared Dec. 14.
Authorities recovered her remains, and those of her unborn child, on Jan. 12 from a fire pit in Jacksonville, N.C., where they suspect Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean burned and buried her body. Lauterbach had accused Laurean of raping her.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is leading the fugitive hunt for Laurean, who is being sought on murder charges. He is believed to be in Mexico.
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SOMETIMES FUNNY, SOMETIMES SAD, BUT MOSTLY A CRAZY RIDE!
3 comments:
Those people suck so much.
I have a theory though - I think they're actually non-Christians posing as vile Christians in an attempt to turn people against Christianity. I'm not saying that there's nobody in the world that can be so horrid, but to have a church full of them in one place seems a little bit dubious.
There is no excuse for picketing or protesting at a funeral. None. Even Timothy McVeigh's family deserved the right to mourn in private, despite what he did. Your beliefs stop way before you get to the funeral site.
BoyHowdy Alice ain't that the truth!!!! Dog, you are right, as evil as McVeigh was his family did deserve to mourn in peace.
Stacey, I think you make a very interesting point. If you do a little research, that church has about 60 members, and 50 of them are related to Fred Phelps, by marriage or birth. So I am thinking that they all may just be a little bit "off" as we say in the south. Meaning they are inbred, mouthbreathing idiots, under a mass delusion, that Fred speaks for God.
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