The Westboro Baptist Church has announced that they will protest at the funerals of the Orlando shooting victims.
Directly after the shootings, they already twittered "God hates faggots. God sent the shooter. Omar Mateen and the slaughtered faggots are in hell. Repent!"
And so know they let know that they will protest at all the funerals.
Orlando police announced that they received a letter from the WBC, in which they announce their protests. The police says they cannot do anything about it, since the high court ruled in 2011 that their protests fall under the protection of the Constitution.[...]
Err ._. That last paragraph...wha?
This is whaaaaaa
My inner theologist is writhing at this stupidity. But also at the vagueness or the impression of lacking critical thinking of the last part...God never hated people. Those people saying that on behalf of a perceived higher power hated other people by interpretative contradiction and Eurgh.That message is just so short. Much brevity.
Emotionally charged. Superficial. (Also a ton much on extremism. Like WOW does that miss a lot on holisticality.)
Sensationalism(?)* most likely--aiming to target a really raw nerve. Really passing this off as something like that, or faked to cause a stir because of that.**
*what's the term for 'really saying something that catches attention but isn't actually really in depth or something like that?
**That statement is as if saying all the victims are of one group to discriminate against [it's as if all those who died are gay? WTF]; also implying that the statement is to discriminate against individual funerals.Yeah shouldn't be typing these when fatigued at 2:02am. But UGH that sensationalism(?).
What inspires such passionate hatred?
This may be what happens when certain verses--extremely out of context in consideration to the verse in itself, conflicted by the consideration that it was given by a position in authority, equals 'something to follow because it is right', in the most blunt sense I'm writing due to fatigue right now (plus the lack of critical thinking and realistic application).
That or whoever wrote that really made a mess of mixed feelings by anyone who receives such information--by word of mouth or by those who directly viewed it. But yeah--hatred is a by product, not an origin here. Whatever the result from anyone posting here--don't follow it up with more hate.
E: I believe the police can actually do something about it if that thing ever goes through, since...its practically unbelievable that they're rendered powerless due to a general notation in a specific situation due to specific factors.
As a total aside but related thingy thanks to memory from reading that, I browsed through imgur and came upon
a list that made me
again. Comments are very agreeable; never saw this before.