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Bible-Spouting Group Plans to Picket Amish Funerals
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CNS News - Oct 4, 2006
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Bible-Spouting Group Plans to Picket Amish Funerals
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
(CNSNews.com) - A Kansas-based group that says "God hates fags" plans
to picket the funerals of the Amish girls killed by a disturbed man in
Lancaster County, Pa.
The Westboro Baptist Church -- described as a hate group by the
Anti-Defamation League -- has made a name for itself by picketing the
funerals of U.S. troops killed in Iraq. The troops are dying as
punishment for America's tolerance of homosexuality, the group says.
The Westboro group says the Amish school girls were "killed by a madman
in punishment for Gov. Ed Rendell's blasphemous sins against Westboro
Baptist Church.
"Gov. Ed Rendell -- speaking and acting in his official capacity to
bind the State of Pennsylvania -- slandered and mocked and ridiculed
and condemned Westboro Baptist Church on national Fox TV," the group
says on its website.
"Rendell also revealed a conspiracy to employ the State's police powers
to destroy WBC in order to silence WBC's Gospel message.
Co-conspirators identified by Rendell included state officials,
citizens, lawyers, legislators and media," the website says.
Westboro Baptist Church said it is "continuing to pray for even worse
punishment upon Pennsylvania."
A number of states have passed laws to keep groups like Westboro away
from grieving families at funerals, but last month, a federal judge
ruled that a Kentucky law barring protests within 300 feet of military
funerals and memorial services is too broad and may not be enforced.
In other developments, the man who shot and killed five Amish
schoolgirls apparently planned to sexually abuse them first,
investigators said. But he apparently didn't get a chance: Charles Carl
Roberts IV killed himself when police arrived on the scene.
Suicide notes left by Roberts indicate he was dreaming of molesting
girls. He reportedly told his wife he had molested two young relatives
20 years ago - and wanted to do it again.
"It's very possible that he intended to victimize these children in
many ways prior to executing them and killing himself," State Police
Commissioner Jeffrey Miller said on Tuesday.
Roberts also indicated he was anguished over the death of a daughter
who died shortly after birth nine years ago. In his notes, he said he
was "filled with so much hate" and "unimaginable emptiness," but
everyone who knew him said they never saw signs of his psychological
distress.
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CNS News - Oct 4, 2006
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/viewstory.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200610/AT20061004a.html
Bible-Spouting Group Plans to Picket Amish Funerals
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
(CNSNews.com) - A Kansas-based group that says "God hates fags" plans
to picket the funerals of the Amish girls killed by a disturbed man in
Lancaster County, Pa.
The Westboro Baptist Church -- described as a hate group by the
Anti-Defamation League -- has made a name for itself by picketing the
funerals of U.S. troops killed in Iraq. The troops are dying as
punishment for America's tolerance of homosexuality, the group says.
The Westboro group says the Amish school girls were "killed by a madman
in punishment for Gov. Ed Rendell's blasphemous sins against Westboro
Baptist Church.
"Gov. Ed Rendell -- speaking and acting in his official capacity to
bind the State of Pennsylvania -- slandered and mocked and ridiculed
and condemned Westboro Baptist Church on national Fox TV," the group
says on its website.
"Rendell also revealed a conspiracy to employ the State's police powers
to destroy WBC in order to silence WBC's Gospel message.
Co-conspirators identified by Rendell included state officials,
citizens, lawyers, legislators and media," the website says.
Westboro Baptist Church said it is "continuing to pray for even worse
punishment upon Pennsylvania."
A number of states have passed laws to keep groups like Westboro away
from grieving families at funerals, but last month, a federal judge
ruled that a Kentucky law barring protests within 300 feet of military
funerals and memorial services is too broad and may not be enforced.
In other developments, the man who shot and killed five Amish
schoolgirls apparently planned to sexually abuse them first,
investigators said. But he apparently didn't get a chance: Charles Carl
Roberts IV killed himself when police arrived on the scene.
Suicide notes left by Roberts indicate he was dreaming of molesting
girls. He reportedly told his wife he had molested two young relatives
20 years ago - and wanted to do it again.
"It's very possible that he intended to victimize these children in
many ways prior to executing them and killing himself," State Police
Commissioner Jeffrey Miller said on Tuesday.
Roberts also indicated he was anguished over the death of a daughter
who died shortly after birth nine years ago. In his notes, he said he
was "filled with so much hate" and "unimaginable emptiness," but
everyone who knew him said they never saw signs of his psychological
distress.
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