The Westboro Baptist Church is an independent Baptist church known for its extreme stance against homosexuality and its protest activities, which include picketing funerals and desecrating the American flag. The church has been actively involved in the anti-gay movement since at least 1991 when it sought a crackdown on homosexual activity at Gage Park six blocks northwest of the church. In addition to anti-gay protests at military funerals, the organization pickets other celebrity funerals that are likely to get it media attention.
In 2006, Westboro picketed with banners saying "God hates fags" and "Thank God for dead soldiers" at the Westminster, Maryland, funeral of Matthew Snyder, a U.S. Marine who was also killed in Iraq. Ruling on a subsequent lawsuit filed by Snyder's father, Albert Snyder, the U.S. Supreme Court decided 8–1 that Westboro's actions constituted protected free speech.
The Westboro Baptist Church claims to be Christianiry. They preach specific Bible verses, pretty much to the exclusion of all of the others and without any compassion or common sense. Christians do not do the hateful things that these people do.In Christian theology charity, or love is the greatest of the three theological virtues.I say unequivocally that they are not Christians.
Religion in America has always been caught between supporting American patriotism, portraying God as love, and standing against elements that were deemed immoral and a threat to their interpretations of traditional American values. This has often created tension because of ancient, doctrinal condemnation of many values that American society today has been growing to accept over the last forty years in the name of human dignity.
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