The Westboro Baptist Church is planning a protest at a St. Louis-area high school today after a student there pleaded for the church to come:

Margie_phelpsOn Westboro Baptist Church’s website, an announcement indicates the visit comes at the request of a Fort Zumwalt East student.

“His email was to the effect of ‘We’ve got proud homosexuals strutting up and down the halls of this school. You’ve got to come,'” said Margie Phelps, an attorney for Westboro Baptist Church, and daughter to the pastor.

Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2012/02/zumwalt.html#ixzz1liIK18Z2

This article has a video with it.

Different people have different feelings, it’s a normal part of human nature. However, the issue at state what different people do about their feelings.

People who don’t believe in God have a right and choice to do so. Still, God loves and he will eventually find other ways to reach them.

But Dr. Throckmorton’s argument was that if you want to be respectful, you can’t at all express certain contents. That’s the point where I become adamant.

Nick’s reflections remind to me the lifestyle of early quakers which were rather outspoken about their neighbours sins. Mostly they tried to be seen as polite, but not always and not at the cost of what they saw as truth. They weren’t always loved, but mostly respected (because of personal values, not because people thought that everyone has to be respected). Those were the days when a man was more respected when he openly disagreed than when he told you what you wanted to hear.

‘Accepting persecution as part of the deal’ is not the same thing as saying ‘persecution is fine’. Of course we should oppose the persecution of Christians where it occurs (and it does it many places – though I’m not sure that either the USA or the UK can really be regarded as two of those places!), just as we should oppose the persecution of gay people.

There is only one of me, by the way! One’s quite enough!!! 🙂