Westboror Church Needs to burn!

[Naked Crook]

I wouldn't go so far as to blame organized religion or the idea of it. We have to remember, that these are people holding up these signs, and it is their views. Not every organized religion goes around spreading hate speech. Hiding behind the guise of an "organized religion" is simply a means to an end. Atheist organizations can be just as morally reprehensible as religious ones, but that does not mean that all secular groups are bad, very much in the same way that not all religious groups are bad. We have to avoid blaming groups, and assign blame to individuals. In the case of the WBC, what we have is very crafty and manipulative people who pick their battles. If you think these people are dumb, guess again. They go from state to state, and push their protesting as far as the state law will allow them to. They claim things like "God hates Fags" and "God loves IED", etc etc etc. What they are doing meets the definition of hate speech in every way, and everyone will agree that it is hate speech, that it is all hateful, that it is evil, that it is morally repugnant, but the loophole that they have is that it is not THEM saying these things. The entire reason they are still around, is because they are "quoting" God. They are not the ones making this speech, but rather, God is the one saying this stuff, and they are simply the messengers. That is pretty fucked, don't ya think? So guys, lets try to keep a few things in mind: Let's not blame religion, or blame God because the things are used as means to an end Let's not blame state laws or the constitution for not being more precise with the wording Let's not blame the Government for not cracking down on this loophole Let's not assign blame anywhere What we have to do, is ignore these people. Preachers preach, because listeners listen. These people, eventually, when they realize that their message is going unheard, they will either stop, and go quietly into the night, or escalate to the point where we can finally put these people behind bars, celled up with some 6'9" pipe hitting brotha named Jamal.