Church was scheduled to Picket Amish Funerals

[Hamlet]

The Westboro Baptist Church, (notorious for picketing military funerals) scheduled themselves to picket the Amish funerals with claims that the Amish children were burning in hell, etc..

A local Dallas Talk Radio host offered them one hour of air time tomorrow morning if they would call off the protests. They agreed and the show will are at 6 a.m. on KSKY? I believe....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12071434/from/RSS/

http://www.khnl.com/Global/story.asp?S=5497062

Hamlet Reviewed by Hamlet on 10-05-2006. Church was scheduled to Picket Amish Funerals The Westboro Baptist Church, (notorious for picketing military funerals) scheduled themselves to picket the Amish funerals with claims that the Amish children were burning in hell, etc.. A local Dallas Talk Radio host offered them one hour of air time tomorrow morning if they would call off the protests. They agreed and the show will are at 6 a.m. on KSKY? I believe.... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12071434/from/RSS/ http://www.khnl.com/Global/story.asp?S=5497062 Rating: 5

[Dro_Princess]

They are not christians. Those people make me sick. Those familes are tring to lay there children to rest and they protest there furnerals. If anyone protested my childs furneral with signs that my children were buring in hell they would be on a one way trip there before the day was over.

[Cas]

reason #132 i hate organized religion in combination with close-minded fools.

[rebgirl420]

They buried them kinda close to my house in grand ole' Pennsylvania. It's absolutely devastating that someone could possibly do that to the families. Another reason i'm atheist.

[graymatter]

The Amish (among other pacifist Christian sects) forgive unconditionally. They've set up ways to donate to the victims as well as the assailants widow.

[gr8misadventures]

I watched bits and pieces on the news. I have a friend in Warren, PA and often drive down to see her. A couple of times I have made the drive with someone and we always seem to drive home through Amish country as the scenic route.

2 years ago, I had my rad blow up on one of these so-called scenic routes.... A horse and carriage pulled up and a man and his son stepped out. There was a hole in my rad, and I was with my mum (very short, very friendly, very Irish). These two men crushed something up so it looked like a light-coloured sand. They poured it into my radiator and told me to move it, that it would get me to the border, but not much farther (I live 10 minutes from the border).

I have nothing but the utmost respect for them , and if they find they need to forgive in order to move on, then I forgive with them - it is their beliefs, not ours.

But I also want to mention the respect I have for them not speaking much with the media. It is very difficult for people in this day and age to avoid the media in times of crises, and these people did what they needed to do to help their own. Admirable.