Holtie

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:57:59 -0500

This documentary on Phelps' clan is quite enlightening: http://www.atheistnation.net/video/?video/00260/atheist/the-most-hated-family-in-america/

Edrie

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:58:14 -0500

Yay for Gay! Boo for those WBC peeps who have no love at all :-(

angeldollali

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:05:18 -0500

The support shown by the Cambridge community is so great for a number of reasons. The reason I say this is because a friend of mine died recently. This friend was the pilot of Flight 3407 that went down in Buffalo, New York. Captain Marvin Renslow was a member at my church and I was particularly close to his son. The connection his death has with WBC is that the WBC group attended his funeral to protest the fact that our church was “worshipping a dead guy.” They claimed that our pastoral staff was only giving statements (begged by the media) due to the fact that our pastors wanted attention. They also called our church (First Baptist Church of Lutz) First Baptist Doghouse of Lutz, a whorehouse, and claimed that we had no right to call ourselves a church. The fact that the WBC group was coming to the funeral of someone that I knew and respected and could call “friend” was extremely upsetting and stirred up feelings of anger. It was frustrating to think that these people that find themselves in the right were going to attend the funeral, as if they were poisoning the very sanctity and preciousness of the moment. Many people have attended a funeral, and as unfortunate as those occasions are, most do not see it as an opportunity to “worship a dead guy.” It was extremely offending, and horrifying that the WBC group felt that they had the right to interrupt such a sacred time for the grieving family and friends. It was also somewhat confusing that WBC considered our pastoral staff “attention craved”, while WBC travels all over the country and on occasions of the country to protest their beliefs, constantly getting on the news or having articles such as this written about them. This article, however, was one of the more positive ones where WBC was one of the featured topics. This one was more focused on the way a community that would usually be divided came together to stand up against people that look at the world in a cruel and one-sided way. They are appalling, and it is so great, that even in the midst of great difference, a community can come together and stand up against the people trying to divide our nation further.

Bostonist: Fred Phelps and Westboro Baptist Church Lead Anti-Gay Protest at Cambridge Rindge and Latin

Holtie

Edrie

angeldollali