Sentences with phrase «picketing funerals»

The church reportedly preaches that God hates gay people, as well as Jews and Catholics, and is famous for picketing the funerals of dead soldiers.

The problem with many modern Christians is that we've seen and experienced too much bad evangelism: the crazy street preachers shouting at strangers, the late - night televangelists peddling for money, The Westboro Baptists picketing funerals, the corrupt pastors who eventually make the news for all the wrong reasons.

The psychotic Westboro bunch creates more pain for grieving families by picketing funerals with messages of hate.

The Huffington Post: Westboro Baptist Church To Obama On New Funeral Protest Law: There's «Prime Real Estate At 301 Feet» Members of the Westboro Baptist Church once again took to Twitter to react to the new law signed by President Barack Obama on Monday that will restrict one of the group's notorious activities: Picketing funerals of soldiers.

The shock and heartbreak over the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School have inspired Westboro Baptist Church to do what they do worst: jettison any semblance of humanity and decency by picketing the funerals of the victims.

This does not mean picketing their funerals.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that Westboro's practice of picketing the funerals of fallen soldiers with offensive placards is constitutionally protected free speech.

Add grief to grieving families by picketing funerals of victims for his personal popularity.

[there is very little talk about «belief» and the talk is mostly about elections, criminal prosecutions, end - times hucksters, picketing funerals, congressional misdeeds, presidential lack of belief..

I rank this right up there with the Religious Zealots that picket the funerals of Service Members to combat gays in America!

Well, well... I know that two wrongs don't make a right, but I think in this case there should be an exception... Calling on all of those grieving family members and friends of all those that this group decided to picket their funerals... Now is the time to come together and give this lowlife and his followers a dose of reality.

The bigoted ignorant moron of the Westboro Baptist Church (that fortunately died) picketed funerals of dead soldiers.

It is one of my life goals to have the Westboro Baptists picket my funeral.

Religion News Service: Fred Phelps» son condemns Westboro's plan to picket Newtown funerals The estranged son of a Kansas pastor famous for protesting the funerals of soldiers and AIDS victims has condemned his family's plans to picket the funerals of the 26 people — including 20 children — who were killed when a gunman stormed a Connecticut elementary school.

The Westboro fvcktards are going to picket the funerals of these kids??

I have loved ones fighting these wars and if one (God forbid) paid that price for our freedom and someone picketed their funeral God would be the only one who could hold me back.

Wow, picketing a funeral is foul and loathsome but picketing the funeral of soldiers and a young girl makes me so sick.

You are certainly no better than those nutcases up in Kansas who picket the funerals of fallen soldiers.

I love the people who counter-protest against the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC is a Kansas church that thinks it is a good idea to picket funerals, among other things) by breaking out signs of their own, like the ones below:

Today the U.S. Supreme Court held 8 - 1 in Snyder v. Phelps that the state could not impose liability for intentional infliction of emotional distress on Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church for picketing the funeral of deceased soldier Matthew Snyder, at least where «Westboro addressed matters of public import on public property in a peaceful manner, in full compliance with the guidance of local officials.»

Now I'm all for freedom of speech, no matter how repugnant, but I just can't seem anything Christian about picketing a funeral.

Not exact matches

Family Research Council is about as tolerant as the Westboro Baptist Church (the Phelp's who picket soldiers funerals, and Dio!).

The rally has been a catalyst for protests by the Westboro Baptist Church, a group well known for its picketing of funerals of American servicemen and servicewomen.

When we have those nuts at Westboro Baptist picketing soldier's funerals, spitting on homosexuals, and making videos about how Santa is a fag and will send you to hell, we catch a glimpse of what happens when abhorrence of evil combined with confrontation consumes and destroys love, catapulting them into realms of hatred that Jesus would fall down weeping at the sight of.

Mixed in were those who wanted to picket — or party — at Phelps» funeral.

Phelps is only the most infamous because of their funeral picketing.

So Fred Phelps, if your son or daughter had just died in battle, would you want people to show up at the funeral to picket against the sins in or advocated by the nation they died for?

Members of the Westboro Baptist Church announced Thursday plans to picket Saturday's funeral for Elizabeth Edwards in Raleigh, North Carolina.

If you approve of planes flying into buildings, dressing women in cloth bags, denying stem cell research, discrimination against women, gays and anyone with alternate beliefs, denying contraception to people who can't afford families, picketing soldiers funerals, etc, etc, then keep your fuzzy mindset about good and evil.

Religious involvement in politics leads to planes being flown into buildings and the Westboro Baptist Church picketing soldiers funerals... You simply could not be more misinformed or confused.

When the Westboro Baptist Church pickets a soldier's funeral, we don't say he shoulda known what his people are like, we say the're extremist whackos.

Militant Christian: Pickets a dead soldier's funeral.

picketing outside of funerals.

Reminds me of a church that picketed Matthew Shepard's funeral with signs reading «God Hates F@6s.»

The controversial case concerned picketing by Phelps» Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) at the Westminster, Maryland, funeral of Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder, who was killed in Iraq in 2006.

Recall that the most despised «church» in America is the funeral - picketing, bigoted, incestuous, mouth - breathing Westboro BAPTIST Church.

should not mean Westboro Baptist Church can picket outside of the private funerals of dead American Military men and women because «god hates gay people»... Should not mean you can wear a klan costume at the BET awards....

Despite the protests» unpopularity, the Supreme Court upheld Westboro's right to picket military funerals on free speech grounds in 2011.

According to the church's website, it has picketed more than 53,000 events, ranging from Lady Gaga concerts to funerals for slain U.S. soldiers.

The Guilty Remnant is arguably already among us in the form of groups such as the funeral - picketing Westboro Baptist Church.

I very much disagree with WBC's views, including its decision to picket soldiers» funerals.

The Church's teachings were oftentimes hard to follow, but central to their message was their incessant picketing of the funerals of soldiers and homosexuals who had died of AIDS or had... [more]

The Church's teachings were oftentimes hard to follow, but central to their message was their incessant picketing of the funerals of soldiers and homosexuals who had died of AIDS or had been the targets of hate crimes.

In addition to holding up their pickets and chanting as family members and friends made their way into the church for the funeral, Westboro's members had posted messages for Matthew's parents on their website, stating that they had raised their son for the devil because they were divorced and had taught him that God was a liar.

I'm horrified to hear that members of the Westboro Baptist Church want to picket actor Sage Stallone's funeral.