Veterans Protest Westboro Baptist Military Funeral Protestors

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Alderman: Funeral Protestors 'As Low As One Can Go'
Veterans Protest Military Funeral Protestors

POSTED: 5:51 pm CDT August 8, 2005
UPDATED: 8:56 am CDT August 9, 2005

http://www.nbc5.com/news/4825111/detail.html?z=dp&dpswid=2265994&dppid=65193#

The members of Westboro Baptist Church demonstrated at the funeral of 22-year-old Spc. Adam Harding last week in Portage, Ind. The group claims God is killing American soldiers because of America's tolerance of homosexuality.

"Not only am I happy about it, the Bible says you are supposed to wash your feet in the blood of the wicked," said Jonathan Phelps, a spokesman for the group.

Veterans in Chicago said a military funeral is no place to deliver that message, NBC5's Phil Rogers reported.

"This, I believe, is as low as one can go," said Alderman Brian Balcer, who is also a veteran of the Vietnam War. Balcer, as well as others, denounced the Westboro Baptist Church, which they said had made fraudulent use of the Bill of Rights by crashing the funerals of dead soldiers in the name of free speech.



(Alderman Brian Balcer)

VIDEO: http://cf.nbc5.com/chi/sh/videoplayer/video.cfm?id=4825399&owner=chi

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1. As low as the Phelpsians can go, Mr. Balcer?

You should know that this group regards that kind of talk as a personal challenge.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Veterans for sanity and civility. Thank God!

[yellowcanine]

3. "This, I believe, is as low as one can go," He doesn't know the Phelps

crowd. They can go a lot lower than that.

[bluestateguy]

4. If I was president

I would round up every one of these Westboro Baptist "Church" members and throw them into a concentration camp, where they would be forced to un-learn their beliefs. They would not be allowed out until their attitudes changed.