The Westboro baptists are the assholes we always knew they were. Watch this, to see what they think about the school shooting in Connecticut. Warning: be ready to throw up.
http://youtu.be/e6n0pkiFlyg
But if you think that Westboro baptists are a fringe cult and their ideas have no traction in the mainstream Christian right, you are sadly mistaken.
First, we had Mike Huckabee, blaming the shooting on not having a theocracy. While he seemed earlier to moderate his tone (sort of), now he is doubling down again.
http://youtu.be/Fi2pyGbY1XI
Christian-owned businesses are told to surrender their values under the edict of government orders to provide tax-funded abortion pills. We carefully and intentionally stop saying things are sinful and we call them disorders. Sometimes, we even say they’re normal. And to get to where we have to abandon bed rock moral truths, then we ask “well, where was God?” And I respond that, as I see it, we’ve escorted him out of our culture and marched him off the public square and then we express our surprise that a culture without him reflects what it’s become.
And of course, you can always expect the good old “doctor” Dobson to be there when people are calling for a theocracy:
Our country really does seem in complete disarray. I’m not talking politically, I’m not talking about the result of the November sixth election; I am saying that something has gone wrong in America and that we have turned our back on God.
I mean millions of people have decided that God doesn’t exist, or he’s irrelevant to me and we have killed fifty-four million babies and the institution of marriage is right on the verge of a complete redefinition. Believe me, that is going to have consequences too.
And a lot of these things are happening around us, and somebody is going to get mad at me for saying what I am about to say right now, but I am going to give you my honest opinion: I think we have turned our back on the Scripture and on God Almighty and I think he has allowed judgment to fall upon us. I think that’s what’s going on.
So how exactly are Huckabee (former governor of a state, who ran for president with a signifcant share of the vote) and Dobson (who was invited to the Bush Whitehouse many times over) any different than Phelps? Their tone may be a bit softer, but their attitude is essentially the same, and they should be subjected to the same kind of public scorn and shunning as the Westboro baptists are.
