Westboro Baptist Church asks the public not to protest the funeral of their founder

Update: the source used in the post was satire. This statement was not released by the Westboro Baptists. However, Fred Phelps is dead.

The Westboro Baptist Church gained notoriety for protesting the funerals of United States military personnel who were killed in action, claiming that their deaths were God’s retribution for America accepting and supporting gay people and their rights.

In doing so they had no decency regarding the privacy of the grieving families which may or may not have agreed with the gay agenda. They drew no distinction between the heroes who died fighting for this country out of duty and honor and the agenda promoted by those who are leading this country.

However now that the founder of this despicable organization, (I do believe this church has protection under the Constitution but that does not mean I do not have the right to oppose what they stand for or the way in which they express their beliefs and so I find it within my right to express my disdain for this organization by calling them despicable), Fred Phelps, has died the church actually has the unmitigated gall to ask the public to respect their privacy by not protesting the funeral.

Here is the statement the Westboro Baptists released:

“This is a very difficult time for us,” the statement reads, “so we ask that the public have a little decency and respect by allowing us to mourn a great man who served God and tried to protect America from the threat of fags and perverts (i.e. gays and U.S. soldiers).”

Even in their call for decency and respect they spew hatred.

I was always taught that we are all sinners but that God loved us anyway, I was always taught that he who is without sin can cast the first stone, yet this organization is casting stones as if they are not sinners themselves in any way and we know that there was only one perfect person who ever walked the face of the earth. So now, because they are apparently perfect, they are asking for the same “decency” and “respect” they denied our heroes who died in the service of our country and the irony is not lost on me.

I hope that thousand of United States veterans show up at the funeral and prove that those who live by the sword die by the sword.