Yes, you heard right.  The nutjobs over at the Westboro Baptist Church are heading to Chicago’s south suburbs to picket at two funerals.

The funerals are those of 2 of the 5 women who were shot to death last Saturday morning in a masacre at the Tinley Park, IL Lane Bryant store – which is only a mile or so from my home.

Initially I was planning on attending with a group of folks to stand between the protestors and the mourners, but at this time I have to let go and let god.  If I did so, I would be no better than Phelps or his clan.

The below is taken from Westboro’s website

02/09/2008 09:15 AM – 10:00 AM Oak Forest, IL St. Damian Church 5220 W. 155th St.

This is for the funeral of Sarah T. Szafranski. God is killing your children! You have institutionalized sin and shame by breaking the moral compass of this generation, and you have raised them for the Devil. Ye are of your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do (John 8:44). Because you have refused to obey the Commandments of the Lord Your God, namely, “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination” (Leviticus 18:22), and “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” (Leviticus 19:17-18); and instead of doing these, have called him a liar by saying it is okay to live any filthy life style that you desire to take course in, YOU HAVE REAPED THE SWORD. YOU HAVE REAPED THE WHIRLWIND. The LORD is called the Man of War, and he is fighting against you, and you are not prospering. You say, “We shall rebuild”, but God has cursed the works of your hand: think WILDFIRES, burning down millions of acres of farmland; think TORNADOES, tearing apart communities, like in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky, and Arkansas. You have only begun to pay for the crimes you have committed against the Servants of God. Prepare to meet thy God, oh America. America is Doomed! Amen.

Oh and another one

02/09/2008 2:45 PM – 3:30 PM Country Club Hills, IL Leak & Sons Funeral Home 18400 S. Pulaski Rd.

This is for the funeral of Connie R. Woolfolk. She was put to death by the LORD of Hosts for the crimes and sins of Doomed America. Why have you offered up lies and vain words? Why do you not rather CUT OFF the idolatry, the adultery, and lying and obey God? Proverbs 1:20 ¶ Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets [THINK PICKETING, PREACHING ON THE STREETS WITH SIGNS, ROBUST, THE FEAR OF GOD; OBEY GOD! Proverbs 1:7): 21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, 22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? 23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. 24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; 25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: 26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; 27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. 28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: 29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: 30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. 31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. 32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. 33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. America is Doomed! Amen.  

I’m sorry Fred, but not today.  Chicago is not your “town next door”.  We are easy going, but you don’t want to F*ck with a Chicagoan.  I may not have known the victims of this tragedy, but I know full well that this tragedy happens everyday.  You have no right at all to do what it is you are doing, that goes for the fallen soldiers, AND ESPECIALLY for FIVE INNOCENT women who were in the wrong place, at the wrong time during a botched robbery attempt.  You can take your “God Hates Fags” picket signs and shove them up your a**.