Those who know me, know that I do not like to blog about my job. However, today is definitely worth mentioning. Whenever a protest is scheduled for the Statehouse, employees are notified. Needless to say when I saw that
Westboro Baptist Church was scheduled for high noon on the Statehouse lawn
to protest recently introduced legislation my curiosity was piqued. For those of you who are not familiar with WBC just read the press release below or click the link above. During my lunch hour a couple coworkers and I walked by the protest. There were probably less than ten out protesting. Only a handful of people were watching (most of which were House staffers just to see what their signs would say). There were actually more law enforcement officers for "crowd" control then there were protesters and bystanders combined. By the time we were done with lunch (less than an hour later) the "protest" had already dispersed. I didn't have my camera with me, but in the past some of their signs have read, "God Hates Fags", "God is America's Terror", "Thank God for Dead Soldiers", "God Hates You", "Don't Worship the Dead", "Thank God for IEDs"and many other disgusting words and images. While we walked by they were stamping on a US flag.
Westboro Baptist Church
(WBC chronicle's -since 1955)
3701 SW 12th Topeka, Kansas 66604 785-273-0325
www.godhatesfags.com
Wednesday, January 25,2006
NEWS RELEASE
WBC to picket the pandering, demagogic, unfaithful Ohio Legislature -at noon, Friday, Jan. 27, at the Statehouse, Columbus, Ohio -in religious protest & warning: "God is not mocked!" God Hates Fags! Fag-Enablers! Ergo, God hates the Ohio Legislature.
Ohio's ignominious Legislature- apparently led by Bible-Constitution-ignorant Rep. John Boccieri -is hysterically rushing to pass a so-called "Let Them Rest in Peace Act." People in Hell -tormented with fire and brimstone by a sovereign God for their sins when alive on earth -are quite beyond Bro. Boccieri's power to give rest.
The legislators know, of course, that they are flagrantly violating their solemn oaths to support and defend the Constitution, in that they are deliberately, knowingly trashing the First Amendment. To wit:
They are making laws respecting an establishment of religion (Westboro Baptist Church); they are prohibiting the free exercise of WBC's religion (picketing at the forum and venue of God's choice-Military funerals); they are abridging the freedom of speech (God hates fags and God hates America and God is blowing these soldiers to smithereens by Iraqi IEDs and sending them
home in pieces in body bags); and they are abridging the freedom of the press (words on signs like, You Turned America Over to Fags; They're Coming Home in Body Bags).
WBC's purpose is to educate as well as to "reprove, rebuke and exhort" (2 Tim. 42). WBC holds the following truths to be self- evident, and to be a harbinger of sodomite America's doom:
1. God has suckered this evil nation into a bloody war and is killing our kids -blowing them to smithereens with Iraqi IEDs -for spitting in His Face, by contending and teaching our kids the lie: It's OK to be gay.
2. They turned America over to fags; they're coming home in body bags.
3. God's weapon of choice to punish sinful, sodomite America is the cheap, homemade IED.
4. God's forum of choice to deliver His message is the funeral of kids blown to smithereens by the IED.
5. Unprincipled, demagogic politicians think they can do an end run around the First Amendment. It's irresistible to pandering demagogues because maudlin, Bible-ignorant Americans worship dead bodies and bloody fag flags and their own sinful lusts.
6. America has sinned away her day of grace and America is no longer blessed of God, but is now irreversibly cursed of God.
God is now America's Terrorist -America's implacable Enemy. America is doomed.
