PHOTO: Westboro Baptist Church at it again

[Bluebear]

OGDEN, Iowa - The soldier's flag-draped casket is set on the gymnasium floor, below the unlit scoreboard, before bleachers crowded with mourners.

They are there for Sgt. Daniel Sesker, the young man known for an infectious laugh and a wide smile, his life taken abruptly by an improvised explosive device outside Tikrit. Inside his high school, those who loved him are just beginning to grieve.

Outside, near a cornfield awaiting planting, picketers thank God for Daniel Sesker's death, talk approvingly of his entrance into hell, and mock the mourners. Amid gusting winds, they struggle to hold up signs that read "Thank God for IEDs" and "God Hates Your Tears."

And back home in Kansas, tucked away in an office over Westboro Baptist Church, Pastor Fred Phelps need only think of what he's done, and he cracks a smile....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060603/ap_on_re_us/ministry_of_hate

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Wouldn't it be lovely if they were all struck by lightning?

Sorry..I just cannot help feeling that way....

[NanceGreggs]

2. You're not alone in that thought ... n/t

[RB TexLa]

3. If it were a member of my family in the casket

the one holding "thank God for IEDs" would just have to meet me.

[theHandpuppet]

16. I'd be right behind you.

It's times like this I really wish there were an afterlife just so I could see the expression on the faces of the Phelps clan as they're welcomed into Hell.

[Richard Steele]

4. That photo already has the most utterly perfect caption...

It's a little blurry, back there above the building entrance:

"THE PRICE OF FREEDOM IS VISIBLE HERE"

Yeah, it really is pretty frickin' visible there, at that particular moment.

[Maraya1969]

5. He doesn't have the nerve to go to the NY gay pride parade. He

only goes to small groups. I'd like to see him stand among the thousands marching down Christoffer Avenue.

He is a wuss.

[originalpckelly]

6. But mainly, small group morning a DEAD PERSON...

not able to defend themselves. These people are ridiculous. You know God will get them one day, they have signs, he has time.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

8. Hell, even on a regular day...

he'd be ripped apart by a hundred angry queens on Christopher Street. And as my one friend says, "Hell hath no fury like an old queen scorned."

[cboy4]

12. Or Market Street in San Francisco!

The drag queens would beat him unconscious with their high heels.

[acmavm]

7. Those pond scum asswipes are just overjoyed at what they're doing.

Look at their smiles.

[NMMNG]

9. Isn't it interesting

how their god hates the same things/people they do?

They do have one thing right though. Their "god" is indeed our enemy. He is the enemy of all rational people. :eyes:

[HipLibMom]

10. I'm a member of the Patriot Guard Riders...

which is a biker group that goes to the soldier's funerals in order to shield the grieving family members from these "Christian" idiots.. I've seen them in action, and it's maddening. I'm all for free speech - but in this case, it's a matter of hate speech and it needs to be stopped.

Link to PGR website for anyone interested: http://www.patriotguard.org/

[murielm99]

15. Thank you. nt

[theHandpuppet]

17. Thanks, HipLibMom

Just watch out for those Phelps scum. They're all lawyers and just itching for the opportunity to file more lawsuits.

[cboy4]

11. Where's an out of control Greyhound bus with no brakes when you need one?

:shrug:

(I do feel sorry for those brainwashed children)

[Swamp Rat]

13. Yes, they are victims of child abuse and no one has stopped it!

:(

[BR_Parkway]

14. It's that whole "christian nation" thing - it would only be investigated

if I taught my kid that Zeus was the one true God and we stood on the street corner with signs about him returning. They'd haul me off for being delusional and take the kid to live with some "good, Christian" foster parents who could undue the "harm" I'd caused him.