disbead yence to god and blasphemed him with her dying breath. i m not going to read you any more of what they say on their website, it frankly rambles on with this, talking about cancer is god s punishment, et cetera. i m not going to turn this into a sunday school class and not presume to tell you what the bible says. but to use elizabeth edwards funeral, to use the funeral of a service member, anybody s funeral to promote yourself, to hurt others as this church routinely does, it may be constitutional and the supreme court is going to decide that, but it is certainly unconscionab unconscionable. after reporting about a arkansas school board member who posted a rant on facebook saying he liked to see gay people die, i found myself the target of this sorry little group. the head of the group, fred phelps, posted this online. who do you think you are? a muckraking little news prostitute to be passing out spiritual advice on matters such as sin and righteousness and
his daughter and the family plan to do now. crime and punishment tonight. we begin as always keeping them honest. tonight the church that preaches hate, plain and simple, hate in public places, hate in moments of great pain and great loss. talking about the westboro baptist church of topeka, kansas. i m sure you ve heard of them, it s a tiny congregation whose members aren t content to spew their hate in the confines of their church. the man who runs the westboro baptist church loves publicity and he s made a name for himself by picketing funerals of fallen troops. their tortured logic is that america s war dead are somehow god s punishment for the country tolerating gays and lesbians. their actions and whether or not it should be protected by the first amendment is now being decided by the supreme court. we talk about it tonight, however, because tomorrow the group will protest outside the funeral of elizabeth edwards in raleigh, north carolina. in a moment you ll hear from some goo
their church. the man who runs the westboro baptist church loves publicity and he s made a name for himself by picketing funerals of fallen troops. their tortured logic is that america s war dead are somehow god s punishment for the country tolerating gays and lesbians. their actions and whether or not it should be protected by the first amendment is now being decided by the supreme court. we talk about it tonight, however, because tomorrow the group will protest outside the funeral of elizabeth edwards in raleigh, north carolina. in a moment you ll hear from some good people who are planning to drown out this group s hate with love. we ve always avoided even mentioning this church on this program because we haven t frankly wanted to give them any publicity. but because the supreme court is now considering the issues this church raises we thought it worthwhile just to look at what they do and more importantly what a lot of other americans do to stand up to their bullying. this is how f
bully in the front yard, basically, is what i felt like doing. and facebook kind of gave me the opportunity to do that. ben, i heard you say that success for you would be if sunday morning the headlines read, elizabeth edwards quietly laid to rest. absolutely. absolutely. this isn t about me. i think susan would agree. this isn t about us, it s not about the thousands of people from the local community and abroad that are going to come over and help protest, spread the love. it s certainly not about the westboro group. this is about human decency and common courtesy. susan, how do you plan to do this tomorrow? obviously you don t want this to turn into some sort of yelling protest or anything. no. we were talking about this, the original post that i did was to create a human barrier between the protesters and the funeral itself. but luckily the raleigh police
we talk about it tonight, however, because tomorrow the group will protest outside the funeral of elizabeth edwards in raleigh, north carolina. in a moment you ll hear from some good people who are planning to drown out this group s hate with love. we ve always avoided even mentioning this church on this program because we haven t frankly wanted to give them any publicity. but because the supreme court is now considering the issues this church raises we thought it worthwhile just to look at what they do and more importantly what a lot of other americans do to stand up to their bullying. this is how far the church describes what they plan to do at elizabeth edwards funeral tomorrow. and i want to warn you, the language they use is ugly. wbc, they write, will picket a respectful distance from the funeral of elizabeth edwards who split hell wide open on december 7th, 2010. they talk about a respectful distance, their words are anything but respectful. this witch, they go on to say, i wan