"God Hates Fags" Church group to picket soldiers funeral in Moorhead

KyndCulture

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Sun Jul-31-05 07:28 PM
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"God Hates Fags" Church group to picket soldiers funeral in Moorhead

I am in Detroit Lakes, pretty close to Moorhead, I know there are some Fargo DUers... I wish there was something we could all get together and do to protect this family from this horror...

Church To Picket Marine's Funeral In Moorhead

(AP) Moorhead, Minn. A fringe Kansas church that claims it was targeted by the United States with the same type of explosive that killed a Moorhead soldier in Iraq plans to demonstrate at the soldier's funeral.

Sgt. Bryan Opskar was killed on July 23 when a roadside bomb exploded. A military spokesman says the 32-year-old Marine was conducting combat operations near Ar Rutbah, Iraq.

Ten members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, plan to picket for 30 minutes before Opskar's funeral in Moorhead on Tuesday, said Shirley Phelps-Roper, church attorney and daughter of church minister Fred Phelps.

The church operates two anti-gay Web sites and links soldiers' deaths in Iraq to a bomb that exploded on its compound in 1995.

A news release from the church says Opskar was killed by "by an IED (improvised explosive devices), like the IED America used to bomb our church, in a terroristic attempt to stop WBC's anti-gay preaching."

http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_211172438.html

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bluestateguy

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Sun Jul-31-05 07:36 PM
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1. These people are just asking for trouble

I better leave it at that.

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KyndCulture

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Sun Jul-31-05 07:38 PM
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2. I know they are.

And I seriously hope it finds them.

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madrchsod

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Sun Jul-31-05 07:44 PM
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3. baseball bats

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KyndCulture

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Sun Jul-31-05 08:09 PM
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4. Well I think I've decided to go down there.

I think that I will go down to that church and see if I can stand between the protest and the family. It's the least I can do.

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cdb

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Sun Jul-31-05 08:20 PM
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5. Why does the military tolerate this crap?

For that matter, why do the families tolerate this behavior? I don't get it...

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Son of California

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Sun Jul-31-05 08:37 PM
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6. can they put their weird little issue aside for two minutes

to realize that they are being disrespectful to someone who never did anything to them and has nothing to do with their pet issue?

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Odin2005

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Fri Nov-18-05 12:41 AM
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7. Phelp's bozos where HERE?

:puke:

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