<H2>Church's position: ‘America is doomed'</H2>
From Staff Reports</P>
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A fax sent to the Neosho Daily News office last Saturday outlined the
Westboro Baptist Church's position on homosexuality, and offered reasons why the
church is picketing the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
The fax was sent as a press release about why the church
decided to picket a March 1 ceremonial signing of legislation placing
prohibitions on funeral picketing.
“Here's the preaching they hate: God
is killing the soldiers in wrath and vengeance against an evil nation that has
gone the way of Sodom,” the release read, quoting Jeremiah 18:21 to back up this
statement. “Further, when God kills a soldier under these circumstances, we are
commanded not to lament him or give him an honorable burial.”
To back up
this statement, the release again quoted from Jeremiah, this time chapter 22,
verses 18 and 19.
“They shall not lament for him saying, ‘Ah my brother!'
or, ‘Ah my sister!' they shall not lament for him saying ‘Ah lord! or, ‘Ah his
glory!' He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth
beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”
“God will punish Missouri,” the release
states in bold letters.
According to the release, the WBC's purpose is to
educate as well as “reprove, rebuke and exhort.”
“WBC holds the following
truths to be self-evident, and to be a harbinger of sodomite America's doom:</P>
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????. God has suckered this evil nation into a bloody war and is killing our
kids - blowing them to smithereens with Iraqi IEDs - for spitting in His Face,
by contending and teaching our kids the lie: It's OK to be gay;
????. They
have turned America over to the fags; they're coming home in body
bags;
????. God's weapon of choice to punish sinful, sodomite America is
the cheap, homemade IED;
????. God's forum of choice to deliver His message
is the funeral of kids blown to smithereens by the IED;
????. Unprincipled,
demagogic politicians think they can do an end run around the First Amendment.
It's irresistible to pandering demagogues because maudlin, Bible-ignorant
Americans worship dead bodies and bloody fag flags, pursing their own sinful
lusts;
????. America has sinned away her day of grace and America is no
longer blessed of God, but is not irreversibly cursed of God.”
“God is
now America's Terrorist,” the release concludes. “America's implacable Enemy.
America is doomed.”</P>