Westboro Church Sickos Receive Compassion From The Target Of Their Hate

[bobabode]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/nation...y.html?hpid=z4

Pretty 'amazing' grace those people are showing towards their enemy.

[finnbow]

The funeral he deserves is to be dumped in the dumpster out back.

[Boreas]

A Kansas gay rights group on Sunday urged the gay community to respect the privacy of the “notoriously anti-LGBT” pastor if his health is declining.

Phelps and the members of his church have “harassed” the grieving families of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Kansans and others, Thomas Witt, executive director of Equality Kansas, said in a prepared statement.

But Witt added: “This is our moment as a community to rise above the sorrow, anger, and strife he sowed, and to show the world we are caring and compassionate people who respect the privacy and dignity of all.”

Pretty classy. I wonder how charitable I'd be in their shoes.

John

[MrPots]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Pretty classy. I wonder how charitable I'd be in their shoes.

John

I'm not that classy. When he kicks the can I'll be there with a poster.....fashioned after one of his own.

I've had to read his vile crap for decades now.

[mpholland]

I don't really have a dog in the fight as I am not gay and yet don't have anything against them, but I do have a hard time deciphering the motive for the compassion. Is it true compassion or is it also a political move? I can see not sinking to his level and picketing the hospital and/or funeral when it comes, but you would never see or hear a compassionate word or action out of me.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by mpholland

I don't really have a dog in the fight as I am not gay and yet don't have anything against them, but I do have a hard time deciphering the motive for the compassion. Is it true compassion or is it also a political move? I can see not sinking to his level and picketing the hospital and/or funeral when it comes, but you would never see or hear a compassionate word or action out of me.

Both, I'd say, true compassion and smart PR.

John

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by mpholland

I don't really have a dog in the fight as I am not gay and yet don't have anything against them, but I do have a hard time deciphering the motive for the compassion. Is it true compassion or is it also a political move? I can see not sinking to his level and picketing the hospital and/or funeral when it comes, but you would never see or hear a compassionate word or action out of me.

Shrewd of them eh? Worked for Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. In that vein, I would say we all have a dog in this fight, equal rights and protection under the law.

[donquixote99]

Virtue is it's own reward? Anyone still think that?

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Virtue is it's own reward? Anyone still think that?

Well, I know I'd be happier with myself if I'd been more, and more often, virtuous. Since I'm the only person I have to live with, that's pretty important.

John

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Virtue is it's own reward? Anyone still think that?

Yes, especially as I am the one who has to look in the mirror to shave. It would be difficult to shave properly while throwing up.

I believe that Paul said it all in one of his letters to the people in Corinth (1 Corinthians 13: 1-13 except that the King James translators took the Greek 'agape' to mean charity whereas the correct translation is a self effacing or unconditional love. Clever folks the Greeks they have four words for love.