I live a couple miles from the Lane Bryant store that was the site of a horrible shooting this past week.
Five people died. They haven’t caught the gunman.
Two of the victims have funerals this Saturday… and Fred Phelps‘ people are coming to picket.
Here’s one description from their “picket schedule”:
St. Damian Church 5220 W. 155th St. This is for the funeral of Sarah T. Szafranski. God is killing your children! You have institutionalized sin and shame by breaking the moral compass of this generation, and you have raised them for the Devil. Ye are of your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do (John 8:44). Because you have refused to obey the Commandments of the Lord Your God, namely, “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination” (Leviticus 18:22), and “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” (Leviticus 19:17-18); and instead of doing these, have called him a liar by saying it is okay to live any filthy life style that you desire to take course in, YOU HAVE REAPED THE SWORD. YOU HAVE REAPED THE WHIRLWIND. The LORD is called the Man of War, and he is fighting against you, and you are not prospering. You say, “We shall rebuild”, but God has cursed the works of your hand: think WILDFIRES, burning down millions of acres of farmland; think TORNADOES, tearing apart communities, like in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky, and Arkansas. You have only begun to pay for the crimes you have committed against the Servants of God. Prepare to meet thy God, oh America. America is Doomed! Amen.
And here’s the other:
Leak & Sons Funeral Home 18400 S. Pulaski Rd. This is for the funeral of Connie R. Woolfolk. She was put to death by the LORD of Hosts for the crimes and sins of Doomed America. Why have you offered up lies and vain words? Why do you not rather CUT OFF the idolatry, the adultery, and lying and obey God? Proverbs 1:20 ¶ Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets [THINK PICKETING, PREACHING ON THE STREETS WITH SIGNS, ROBUST, THE FEAR OF GOD; OBEY GOD! Proverbs 1:7): 21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, 22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? 23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. 24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; 25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: 26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; 27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. 28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: 29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: 30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. 31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. 32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. 33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. America is Doomed! Amen.
Why these funerals?
No reason. America supports the gays. Therefore, your funeral must be picketed.
“It’s hard to imagine any human being being so heartless to someone who is mourning the loss of a loved one,” said [Illinois] Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn on Thursday.
Quinn pushed successfully for legislation keeping protesters 200 feet from military funerals, and he said he hoped law enforcement remembered that the Lane Bryant funerals would fall under that law as well.
“They have First Amendment rights to conduct that funeral without any kind of heckling — without any kind of disruption,” Quinn said.
Let’s hope that’s the case.
At least extra police are coming in for the events.
Mother%&$%ers.
On a brighter note: Westboro Baptist Church will be at another nearby funeral on Monday… But at this one, there will be saviors of a unique sort:
Picketing at the funeral for [Lt. David] Schultz will be countered by a group of Patriot Guard Riders, motorcyclists who attend military funerals at the request of family members.
Gary Bogolin, a senior ride captain, said the Patriot Riders’ primary mission is to provide a flagline to show support for the fallen soldier.
“But we also will form a shield between the mourning family and the (Westboro church members),” he said. “All the family sees is a line of American flags. That’s all the family should see. They don’t need any distractions.”
(via Pam’s House Blend)
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