I believe the policies of the Westboro Baptist Church are deplorable.

[Zorra]

The leaders (notably Rev. Phelps) of the Westboro Baptist Church, promote hatred and bigotry toward the the individuals who comprise the LGBT community, and discrimination toward all women, contributing to and furthering cultural and legislated persecution of both groups.

This hateful mindset leads to LGBT persons being politically targeted, and subsequently having their equal human rights denied them by action of legislative process. This mindset causes many LGBT persons, particularly LGBT youth, to take their own lives in despair at living in societies where religion inspired hate and bigotry plays a huge part in maintaining the culture of hatred toward LGBT persons. This religion inspired culture of hate is partially responsible for deranged conservative individuals attacking, maiming, and murdering LGBT persons on a daily basis.

The Westboro Baptist Church even goes so far as to blame LGBT persons for the deaths of soldiers in wars, and for basically all natural disasters.

The Westboro Baptist Church also promotes a policy of subjugating women through using religion to legislate women not having a legal right choose what they can or cannot do with their own bodies.

It is my humble opinion that churches such as the Westboro Baptist Church, that continue to promote these policies of hatred and bigotry, are doing a huge disservice to the entire human race, not only those who are injured by their promotion of persecution.

It is my humble opinion that we, as liberals/progressives who have the self awareness to think and feel and believe and do the things necessary to finally end the misery caused by bigotry, have a responsibility to point out and work to end these policies of hate and bigotry toward innocent persons who comprise persecuted minorities, in order that we may curtail, and hopefully eventually end the pain, suffering, and destruction that these policies cause.

"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it". ~ Reverend Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.

[RKP5637]

1. They are a collection of hateful deranged misfits as operatives under the banner of religion. And

IMO the FRC runs a close second ... already listed as a Hate Group.

[SidDithers]

2. I'm just glad I wasn't born into that church...

'cause then I'd have to support their policies and be a member for the rest of my life.



Sid

[siligut]

4. Maybe they are like the Mormons or Scientologists

They have all sorts of manipulations to keep people from leaving and even if you do they keep you in their membership book and hound you.

[RKP5637]

6. It is, brainwashed from birth. To me, it is difficult for one to reject their entire programming ...

[siligut]

7. Yes, the mind has no firewall

Unless the critical, conscious mind can reject the information, the subconscious mind will support it. And if the programming began at birth, overwriting it has to be a herculean effort.

And then if all their friends and family are part of the group, the individual has that to overcome.

[tblue]

3. Who doesn't?

They serve no good purpose.

[ismnotwasm]

5. Think I'll go watch 'Red State' again

They protested the shit out of that movie, and if anyone hasn't seen Kevin Smith's Q&A where he answers questions about that you're missing a treat.


How can people be so despicable?

[talkingmime]

8. I call it the Westboro Bastard Cult. There's nothing "church"-like about that.

[Erose999]

9. Its all about the money. Everything they do is meant to provoke retaliation. And then they sue the

people and communities who lash out at them.

They announce they are going to a town to protest. The town passes resolutions to keep their protest from happening. They sue the town, the town can't stop them.

They have also tried to extort money or some sort of benefit in exchange for not protesting.

All the Phelps and Ropers and their inbred spawn are lawyers. They also work for the State of Kansas because ironically enough the gov't is the only workplace that can't shitcan you for that type of behavior. I remember seeing somewhere that Westboro and various members of the Phelps/Roper klan and plaintiffs in over 200 pending lawsuits.