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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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 Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 3:41 pm Post subject: Police Urge Calm Over Phelps' Anti-Gay Protest |
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This is classy, I love these god loving christians!
http://365gay.com/Newscon06/01/010906phelps.htm
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(Evansville, Indiana) Police and county officials urged veterans to avoid confrontations with anti-gay protesters who plan to picket at the funeral Tuesday of an Indiana soldier killed in Iraq.
Hundreds of area veterans have said they will try to shield Pvt. Jonathan R. Pfender��s family from members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., the Evansville Courier & Press reported.
Church founder the Rev. Fred Phelps contends that American soldiers are being killed in Iraq as vengeance from God for protecting a country that harbors gays. Church members have protested at scores of military funerals, and the church informed Evansville police Saturday it would protest at Pfender��s services Tuesday at The Centre.
��They are not going to get our goat,�� Vanderburgh County Commissioner Cheryl Musgrave told about 100 area veterans who met Sunday at the Evansville Coliseum. ��How dare this group co-opt this funeral to make some purely disgusting point.��
Evansville police special operations Sgt. Chris Pugh said about 12 to 20 protesters, some with signs, were expected. He said the group will be restricted to public sidewalks and protesters will not be allowed to enter The Centre, the funeral home or Sunset Memorial Park, where Pfender is to be buried.
Police also likely will block access to the route from The Centre to the cemetery, Pugh said. He said police would not tolerate any legal violations.
Pugh urged veterans to use restraint. ��I can understand why you��re going to be as mad as you��re going to be,�� Pugh said. ��But whatever they say, you��ve just got to let it go.��
Mark Acker, the county veterans service officer, echoed the point.
��Our theme is we��re here to honor a fallen comrade and pay tribute to his family,�� he said.
Pfender, 22, of Evansville, was killed by an improvised explosive device during a patrol Dec. 30 in Bayji, Iraq, the Army said. Pfender was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division. He was the 52nd military service member from Indiana to die in the war. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:14 am Post subject: |
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| That is pretty low. |
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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...
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| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:54 am Post subject: Re: Police Urge Calm Over Phelps' Anti-Gay Protest |
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| Octavius Hite wrote: |
| This is classy, I love these god loving christians! |
You should say, "I love that radical, insane, ignorant, racist, homophobic minutely small percentage of Christians that this reverend represents."
That would be a little more accurate. |
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Nowhere Man
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:09 am Post subject: ... |
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I'd call this plain ole retarded.
You could have called it whatever you wanted to if you had been the one to post it, Pigan. |
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 7:05 am Post subject: |
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| I must have missed something: Are Iraqis gay tolerant? |
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