CelticBear’s Musings

CNN.com – Bikers roll to military funerals to oppose anti-gay protests – Feb 21, 2006

Oh my God. I read this just out of curiosity and was quite surprised to read something like:

They call themselves the Patriot Guard Riders, and they are more than 5,000 strong, forming to counter anti-gay protests held by the Rev. Fred Phelps at military funerals.

Phelps believes American deaths in Iraq are divine punishment for a country that he says harbors homosexuals. His protesters carry signs thanking God for so-called IEDs — explosives that are a major killer of soldiers in Iraq.

Phelps is a disgusting, hate-mongering, vile, waste of human life who has made it his sole purpose in life to spread hate far and wide. I’d followed his hate-mongering some years ago when he was in the news for his anti-gay/AIDS appreciation comments, and the anger he filled in me at him and his “cause” at that time… gah! He’s won again. His hate-spreading has yet again spawned more hate AT him and has peretuated the cycle.

What kind of misguided, horrible monster of a human being whackjob targets funerals of brave soldiers doing their brave job and their grieving family because of some anti-gay agenda? That’s sick. That man and his followers have some serious mental issues.

Yeah, I think the war is wrong and immoral. We’re there because of the Bush administration’s lies and greed and self-righteous arrogance, but I have the utmost respect for the soldiers over there putting their lives on the line because of honor and duty and loyalty. And to target them and their family in their time of grief over some absurd belief of gay harboring nation… celebrating their deaths and thanking the IED’s… God I’m dizzy from the hate for this man he inspires in me.

Good for the Patriot Guard! Good for them, and I hope they really make a difference in counteracting the efforts of Phelps and his legion of sick fucks.