Counter Protest to Westboro Baptist Church

I am proud of the assistance of Lance corporeal Matthew Snyder, U.S. Nautical Corps, who died defending the Constitution of the United States of America. He is one of a long line of American assistance members who have given up their lives so that all Americans can live in Peace with our Freedoms.

In my view, the behavior of the members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, who take it upon them selves to picket and protest at the funerals of assistance members killed in action, is hugely obnoxious to all Americans. I personally cannot understand how they envision that they in any way recite either the teachings of Jesus Christ or Almighty God.

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Still, I believe the eight members of the consummate Court of the United States who ruled in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church were spoton in their decision. The 1st Amendment of the Constitution of the United States is sacrosanct, and our leisure of Speech is in the bedrock of what it means to be an American. It is truly what gives the United States its strength. I pray that Matthew Snyder's parents will also see it that way some day.

Defending our Freedoms means defending ideas and opinions we hate. But what would happen if we did not? What would we think of our values as Americans if we failed to defend the right to express hated opinions? The risk is that we might find our own opinions hated by a majority, who want to silence us. All we have to do is look colse to the world to see the long-term execution of countries whose population are silenced by their governments. Too many of their population live in poverty, and harbor resentments that explode in revolutions like those seen in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, and now Libya.

What will be the supervene of those revolutions? Will they yield environments where population can speak their mind and hold to their beliefs, no matter how idiotic? Or will they revert to governments and systems that punish dissent? If the latter is the result, we know the outcome already. Those peoples will continue to live in countries that condone slavery, bigotry, and religious intolerance. They may supervene for a time, especially if they are blessed with natural resources, but will they serve their population well in the plentifulness of time? I don't think so, nor do most Americans.

This does not mean that the controversy of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas is finished. In the same sense that those Americans can exercise their leisure of Speech, so can Americans who believe their behavior is inappropriate and damned by God now speak up and give that "church" a taste of its own medicine. As a retired Marine, if I lived in Kansas, I would be happy to stand my watch, picketing those people. Indeed, I believe many upstanding Christians, not to mention Americans of other Faiths, will be happy to show the members of the Westboro Baptist Church how they have lost their way in the sight of God, exercising their own leisure of Speech and leisure of Assembly in the process.

The process that made the United States of America is a process like tempering steel. In that process impurities are removed from the iron until it is steel. When one group brings up a bad idea, the rest of us can shout it down and out of our system. It is time for the members of the Westboro Baptist Church to hear the rest of us exercise our leisure of Speech.

Counter Protest to Westboro Baptist Church

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