*Sigh*
It's a shame to say this... but it's gotten to the point where the bible itself is given a level of reverence due to God and only God. ... this is a form of idolatry, and its effects are destructive and hateful, as we have all seen.
I signed the petition. It was the least I could do. I hope we get some more signatures... we really need it.
Although Matthew Shepard was a famous case a number of years back, I suspect that many memebers of this forum may not know who Matthew Shepard originally was.
Matthew Shepard's case happened a number of years ago. The brutal murder of Matthew Shepard, the gay University of Wyoming student, is one we are not likely to forget. After being pursued by two anti-gay radicals, he was strapped to a fence post, savagely beaten, and left for dead outside Laramie, Wyoming. He was not found until the next day -- it wasn't until those who discovered his brutalized body got close before they could tell that it was actually a human body. Shepard, who had lapsed into a coma, died from his injuries.
It is a shameful world we live in, when an idolatrous hypocrite such as Fred Phelps can not only bring themselves to make such a twisted insult of such a terrible event, but find it morally upstanding to do something so wicked. >_<;;
Here's to more signatures. I think I'll throw a link in my Livejournal while I'm at it.
