I’m sure everyone has heard about the death of actor Heath Ledger at this point and don’t need me to rehash the whole situation. There are plenty of places to find the details. But in connection to this I heard someone on television this morning disclosing that the Phelps Family Hate Cult plans to picket his funeral. The announcer then said, ‘This is the problem with organized religion ….’ and was then interrupted and never finished that thought - fortunately.
Here’s the thing. That group is NOT ‘organized religion’ so to speak. It is a hate cult that has been picketing the funerals of Soldiers and making similar statements about Soldiers from the get-go. The old media has not been as interested in their abuse of Soldiers as they seem to be of their abuse of the memory of Heath Ledger. As tragic as the death of this young man is, maybe it will at least bring some attention to this horrific group of people and what they have been doing to Soldier’s families. I also hope that people don’t associate them with a legitimate church!
From Fox News
A radical Baptist church in Kansas known for picketing the funerals of soldiers who perished in Iraq said it intends to protest Heath Ledger’s memorial service with signs claiming the actor died and is in Hell because he played a gay character in “Brokeback Mountain.â€
Shirley Phelps-Roper of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka said that she and other members will picket Ledger’s United States memorial services, not those held in his native Australia.
“You cannot live in defiance of God,†she said. “He got on that big screen with a big, fat message: God is a liar and it’s OK to be gay.â€
A press release circulated by the church references Leviticus 18:22 in the Bible, which states that “thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.â€
“Heath Ledger is now in Hell, and has begun serving his eternal sentence there,†the Westboro Baptist announcement says.
This horrible group of people are NOT a church and its really embarrassing that they call themselves a church. The statements they are currently making about Heath Ledger are similar to the statements they make about our fallen Soldiers.
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They’re psychos, and someday God will let them know that they are not doing his “will.”
They really give Kansas a bad name…it’s embarrassing to me. Maybe someone can picket against their picket?? R.I.P Heath Ledger
That’s a group of people that if I were to hear of their tragic and untimely deaths, my only reaction would be “good riddance”.