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I bet you couldn't find five adult gay Americans who could honestly say they're surprised by this brutal expression of social archconservatism. It may be novel to y'all, but not to us. We've been dealing with this crazy shit for three decades.
It's a phenomenon that should be dubbed "The Westboro Effect" after Fred Phelps' cult. America didn't give a fart about what the Westboro Baptists were doing for years and years until they decided to also start disrupting straight people's funerals.
ZOMG! Suddenly it's all over the news and there are pundits and politicians grandstanding, an ad hoc biker escort organization forms, state legislatures rush to enact anti-Westboro laws, and the Supreme Court even decided to hear a case on the issue.
No, it's not very pleasant to have mobs of morons howling that you're deliberately destroying society and cheering for calls to round you up and kill you.
Welcome to gay.
Heh. Get married while you still can.
great points. thanks for writing.
are you going to the march against the Phelps in the next month?
mr
March against Phelps? Nah.
You can't reason a man out of something he wasn't reasoned into. Given that he's a professional attention whore with a persecution complex, why indulge him? It's not like he has any moral or intellectual gravity to be undermined.
Really, now that everybody in the US knows about him, he's become in some ways our useful idiot. I've gotten a lot of mileage from the WBC, actually.
There's always some self-described "moderate" anti-gay asshole who decries the Westboro Christians as "not real Christians." I eventually get them to concede that they fundamentally agree with Phelps' underlying religious principles. Then I point out that the only real distinction between them and the Phelps' is that they lack the courage of their convictions.
That really screws with them. Which, y'know, is fun.
DEar Mr. Kevin: Thanks for the posting about the hateful things all-too-many people in public office are saying these days. With all of the cases of violence by political extremists these days you would think that people would learn to tone down their rhetoric. The great covervative thinker Richard Weaver used to say: "Ideas have consequences." Yes, and so does inflamatory rhetoric. In 1968 black radical Stokely Carmichical exorted a crowd in a black neighborhood to "burn down this motel accross the street." The crowd did so--the owner of the motel was a black man who lost everything--two weeks later he killed himself, leaving behind a note saying: "Why did my own people have to do this to me?" People who"dump gasoline on a fire" should remember this story. Sincerely, Respectfully and In Christ, Ernest Evans
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