The Westboro Baptist Church is the face of religion moderate religious folk prefer not to see. Intolerance, hate, and ignorance are all lauded values that are encouraged and propagated through this vile system. This clip is from 20/20 a mainstream documentary show in the USA. 20/20 gave a lot of air time to the fact that the WBC often protests at military funerals with its screeds celebrating the deaths of American soldiers. Patriotism is one angle that you can still attack religion in the US.
The clip is horrendous. The father and mother have the faces of the true believer (and they pass their hate on to their children), you can imagine they would be the ones happily torturing heretics and witches during the inquisition, or happily performing ethnic cleansing in the name of god. This is the twisted syrupy-sick hate filled face of Theocracy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50r0CnKq7_k
We at DWR stand and denounce this behaviour, in the name of decency, morality and rationality; concomitantly announcing to the world that Religion has no place in the 21st century.
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February 27, 2011 at 12:04 pm
Rob F
Yes religion can twist anyone. Hard to believe, but Phelps is a former civil rights attorney. He so hateful that he even hates other fundamentalists. He and his church picketed Jerry Falwell‘s funeral.
One of the few unambiguously good things you can say about him is the fact that, as The Slacktivist argues, despite marriage equality, Fred Phelps remains a free man whose freedom of religion has not been intruded upon. Therefore, he is a counterexample to anyone who claims marriage equality infringes on their freedom of religion.
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February 27, 2011 at 12:41 pm
The Arbourist
Wow, great link. What a way to really put religious freedom and belief into the spotlight. It is ironic that something so ostensibly evil, can be used for the greater good.
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