What choice do they have?
Regards,
Shodan
They’re trying to troll for lawsuit grounds, a lot of the time. Most of them are lawyers for a reason.
In Phelps’ case, for quite some time now. I remember one of his people being interviewed on the radio as long ago as 2004 – that was their deal for not ruining the funeral of a local, a sergeant killed in Iraq. (I had to listen for some time to figure out just what the woman was talking about, since it seemed to have something to do with homosexuality, yet nobody seemed even to be suggesting that the dead sergeant was homosexual.)
I recall one of Ambrose Bierce’ fables: A thief was brought before the qadi and said, “I had no choice. Allah made me that I must steal.”
The qadi replied, “That may be so, but He also made me that I must cut off your head. Unless,” he added, “you give me half the money you stole; for He made me that I am weak under temptation.”
The sum being handed over, the qadi continued: “Thank you. You need now lose only one-half your head. To show my trust in your discretion, you may keep intact the half you talk with.”
Their reasoning is, soldiers die in war as retribution from God for the sin of homosexuality.
I was thinking a rock band with a huge wall of Marshall amp stacks, but your idea works too. 
I’m not a big fan of Michael Moore, but his visit to Phelps was classic. (3:00 into this)
My wife related a story she heard in one of her Criminal Justice stories about a case the professor had worked on. A mob boss got whacked in a restaurant, and the police interviewed over thirty people who were in the restaurant.
Every single one of them claimed to be in the restroom when the hit occurred.
It’s obvious then. A wizard did it
A whizzard.
I don’t think they even bother much with reasoning at this point.
I feel a limited amount of pity for some of his kids, but not enough that I would block the road if they were going to be taken to the public square, placed in stocks, and given “39 lashes well laid on”. OT1H they grew up with a control freak raving psycho for a dad, but OTOH some of their brothers and sisters got out of it so they could too.
Perhaps people shoud remind Mr. Phelps, and his followers, that the man he claims to worship is quoted as saying" What ever you do to the least of my Brothers you do unto me" so in essence they are picketing Jesus’s funeral!!
What a pussy. If the WBC is too chickenshit to protest at a murdered child’s funeral, I’m gonna start my own church and do it myself.
:rolleyes:
Seriously, now…did Mr. Phelps ever state a reason WHY his church was planning to protest Christina’s funeral? Or was he being a dick just for the sake of being a dick?
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Seriously, now…did Mr. Phelps ever state a reason WHY his church was planning to protest Christina’s funeral? Or was he being a dick just for the sake of being a dick?
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Looking for logic or reason is basically seeking the living in the place of the dead. They just kind of phone it in these days with all the narrative coherency of a Chick pamphlet.