The U.S. Supreme Court decided in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church today, allowing their “idiosyncratic” protests of U.S. service members funerals. The God-fearing congregants of the church, you see, believe that God kills U.S. soldiers because of American tolerance of homosexuality.
Per CNN:
The church, led by pastor Fred Phelps, believes God is punishing the United States for “the sin of homosexuality” through events including soldiers’ deaths. Members have traveled the country shouting at grieving families at funerals and displaying such signs as “Thank God for dead soldiers,” “God blew up the troops” and “AIDS cures fags.”
And yet, the tone of all the reports seems to be that “intolerance wins.” They seem to be confused. They seem to think that tolerance means tolerance of things that are tolerable. But that’s wrong. Tolerance means to be tolerable, even of the intolerable. Continue reading
