a special place of honour in hell

a good few years ago, when the internet was still shiny and new, i was traipsing through the web and i found a site that nearly moved me to tears called god hates fags.com. i have no idea if the site is still active, but what struck me was the insane amount of hatred that could be encapsulated in HTML.
there is a man who embodies that kind of hatred, and he's a minister, if you can believe it. his name is fred phelps, and i hope that there is place of honour in hell for this man. do you remember the part in poltergeist II when the reverend walks up to the screen door? that's what this guy looks like .

working from a church in topeka, KS, he and his followers have managed to make the mormons look sane (no small feat, in my opinion). the latest in the zany antics of the westboro baptist church are found in this article.

with apologies to fox mulder, but "i want to be beyond belief".

check out this quote:

"The Westboro protesters, whose church is in Topeka, Kan., frequently picket the funerals of military officials and soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan because church leaders assert that God is killing soldiers to punish America for condoning homosexuality. "

now, don't get me wrong, i am not a fan of the military, and i certainly am not a fan of the war in iraq, but there is something very wrong with the way that these people are dying for no rela reason other than to protect our interests in the middle east and when they die, their deaths are used for the purpose of any nut job trying to get their point across, from bill o'reilly to fred phelps.

i am certainly a proponent of the first amendment, but there has to be a line somewhere. mind you, i'm not very comfortable with drawing it, but this is not a guerrilla war, there need to be rules.

anyway, that's enough for now.