The One With Aldacron

In my last post, I talked about the despicable people who are using the Virginia Tech shooting to further their own agendas. I closed with this line:

I’m expecting the Westboro Baptist Church loonies to come out and start blaming the shooting on homosexuals before too much longer.

Today, via PZ Myers, I saw this post by Pam Spaulding at Pandagon. The first part of the post is about the shooting, but at the end she quotes from a source to which she didn’t link (and I don’t blame her, considering the message). The WBC has taken a position on the shooting:

WBC to Preach at Funerals of Virginia Tech Dead

WBC will preach at the funerals of the Virginia Tech students killed on campus during a shooting rampage April 16, 2007. You describe this as monumental horror, but you know nothing of horror — yet. Your bloody tyrant Bush says he is ‘horrified’ by it all. You know nothing of horror — yet. Your true horror is coming.  “They shall also gird themselves with sackloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads” (Eze. 7:18). 

Why did this happen, you ask? It’s simple. Your military chose to shoot at the servants of God today, and all they got for their effort was terror. Then, the LORD your God sent a crazed madman to shoot at your children. Was God asleep while this took place? Was He on vacation? Of course not. He willed this to happen to punish you for assailing His servants.

OK, so they aren’t blaming it on America’s tolerance of homosexuality, their usual tactic. Instead, they’re being even nuttier than usual. I agree that Bush is a bloody tyrant, but the Phelps family (the WBC) are raving lunatics. It would have been so much less tragic if a mad gunman had gone on a rampage at the Westboro Baptist Church instead.

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