07 Mar 2006
Showdown in Dodge City for protesters targeting funerals

These people are beyond comment - protesting at funerals? Gimme a break! What kind of influence do they believe this action will generate? I can guarantee you it won't be a favorable opinion of their pet "fag hating" cause... they're doing more to promote gay marriage than all the LGBT organizations combined! And they're hitting a target audience in the heartland that most urban based groups in favor of gay marriage would never have the credibility to even address, let alone persuade.

So, as a supporter of the right of the people to engage in civil contracts (which is, at it's base, all a marriage is) I want to say "Keep it up, Freddie boy! And thanks for all your help!"

Although I must admit that if my son-in-law had bought it in Iraq, and these bozos had showed up at the services shouting their praise for his killers, the Indiana State prison system would've had a new inmate, and some of the Phelps family would have been attending other funerals. Their own.

This past Saturday morning I found myself in a five-car caravan cutting across the Kansas plains with about 30 religious protesters. In the back of a truck, there were signs that read "Thank God for IED's" and "Thank God for Dead Soldiers." I was with the Phelps family. They've launched a disturbing campaign to tarnish the funerals of fallen soldiers.

(link) [CNN.com]

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