What's News? 10/5/06 The Despicable Westboro Baptist Church News and Opinion by: Whymrhymer The news papers call them “controversial” but that hardly fits an organization that would even consider staging a protest at a military funeral or, their latest outrage, planning a protest at the funerals of the five Amish girls who were brutally murdered by a twisted psychopath this week. This latest protest is now off the ‘drawing board,’ NOT out of the goodness of their hearts (not that there is much ‘goodness’ to be found in their hearts) but because a National talk show host, Mike Galligher, has bought them off with one hour of airtime on his radio show. I see Mike Galligher’s point and understand his decision but there is a much better alternative; if the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, Ed Rendell, had the guts he would have made sure the National Guard was on hand to prevent any protests and worry about any legal ramifications later. He has the power but apparently not the intestinal fortitude. Something should have been done about the funeral protests immediately after the very first one. Harassing a mourning family is NOT an expression of freedom of religion. News Links: Baptist group decides not to picket funerals of Amish girls WBC Cancels Protest of Amish Funerals
posted by Whymrhymer @ 10/05/2006 12:37:00 AM
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I don't think the Amish would have been any happier to see the National Guard show up at those funerals, no matter what the intention of Rendell's in sending them, than they would have been to have the funerals protested by the Baptist crazies.
While Gallagher's solution may not have been the best one from the point of view of depriving those Baptist lunatics from having a voice for their vile obscene taunts, at least everyone had the option of not listening to Gallagher's program while those nutjobs had the microphone. And Gallagher did what no one else could do -- he kept those morons away from the grieving families. Now if only the press had had the same respect and not shown up to take pictures: something else the Amish definitely did not want.
Actually, I had the same thought. Apparently they had a legal-though certainly not a moral-right to be where they were. Nothing Rendell could have done without making a horrible situation worse. Of course, I'm supporting his re-election, though!
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