The Winnipeg Sun reports the whacko fundies from Westboro church apparently arrived in Manitoba but didn't get a chance to harass the family of Tim McLean. In case you aren't aware Tim McLean was a young man who lost his life to a mad man on a bus. He was murdered and his corpse subjected to gross indecencies. "The fundamentalist Westboro church, deemed a hate group by some U.S. organizations because of its raucous rallies to promote its stance against homosexuality, had announced a plan to picket at the funeral. The church had earlier claimed that McLean's grisly slaying was God's punishment of Canada for its liberal laws and policies."
In response "hundreds of Winnipeg residents who lined a Westwood street in hopes of keeping a zealous U.S. religious group from rallying outside the funeral"
Now here's my take on this. It may be true the majority of Christians would never agree with these incredible nut cases but in the U.S. they condone it under a provision in their hallowed Constitution. The 1st. amendment in it's "free exercise" clause allows this type of behavior below the border. The framers of U.S. constitution I'm sure had no intention of condoning such an interpretation any more than they expected the right to bear arms (by a well regulated militia) would be construed as the right for folks like Charleton Heston to construct a gun vault containing everything from muskets to rocket launchers.
Why does this bother me? Well, polls indicate the majority of good amurcans truly believe these are their rights the earth is 6,000 years old, the end is nigh and the One God is on their side and they WILL impose that on the rest of the world.
Think whatever you like but please I beg you, keep your asinine opinions to yourself.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
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