BTW, does anyone here agree with the Westboro Church? I've become interested in it and have watched and read everything I could find about them.
I don't plan to take a stand on it in this thread, myself, but it would be interesting to see an opinion on it from a Christian who reads and understands the Bible.
To go a bit further into it, here is the idea behind their stand:
*God punishes a defiant nation by sending it corrupt leaders to deceive, undermine, and destroy the will of the people.
*Homosexuality is the sin that has "pride" firmly attached to it, so it smacks right into the face of God (in other words, there are no pedophelia parades, etc.)
*When a nation comes together to uniformly support such defiance (support in the form of laws and legality, I'd say), God will see the nation destroyed.
They have taken to picketing soldiers' funerals, as they've found it draws the most energy to the claims. The rationale is that the soldiers died fighting for a country whose leaders are determined to defy God, and it makes for an appropriate location to broadcast from. (They believe they are commanded to state the message, and such funerals cause the greatest number of people to take notice, in other words.)