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    HATEFUL PROTESTERS FROM THE WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH PICKETED THE FUNERAL OF ST. LOUIS ARMY SPECIALIST PETER NAVARRO

    "He died because he was trying to make a difference, and being a soldier was what was making a difference in this time of life. You know, I wanted him to go to college first. But he signed up without me knowing. He was a very strong-willed person. I admired him."

    Jose Navarro,
    Peter Navarro’s father
    at the funeral of his son
    December 23, 2005

    Army Spc. Peter Navarro long ago made peace with the brutal reality of war. On Friday, his friends and family were forced to make peace with it, laying him to rest among a sea of white tombstones at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery.

    Navarro, 20, was killed Dec. 13 outside Baghdad in Iraq. The Wildwood resident was among a group of soldiers killed by an explosion while on patrol.

    On Friday, the Army presented to Navarro's parents three medals for their son: the Good Conduct Medal, the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star. The commendations only confirmed what the couple already knew - that their son died a hero.

    Army Spc. Peter Navarro died a hero but that didn't stop some hateful nuts from protesting his funeral.

    On Friday, December 23, 2005, when Specialist Navarro was laid to rest, hate-filled protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka Kansas showed up to picket.

    The Westboro Baptist Church showed up to picket the funeral of St. Louis hero, Army Spc. Peter Navarro because "The government is tolerant of homosexuals!"

    On Friday morning they chose the funeral of Army Specialist Peter Navarro to make their message heard.

    About twenty church members marched in front of St. Claire of Assisi Church in Ellisville Friday morning.

    Some of their signs are too graphic to be shown on television, but their point is simple. They say U. S. soldiers are being killed in Iraq because the government is tolerant of homosexuals.

    A counter protest staged by a veterans group and other religious leaders shielded the funeral procession so the signs would not offend them.

    When the Phelps gang tried to protest a soldiers funeral in South Haven, Kansas they were met by a group of veteran bikers who held their own larger and louder counter protest:

    The peculiar Phelps logic has shifted the pickets from funerals of AIDS sufferers to funerals of Americans killed in Iraq or Afghanistan.

    Phelps’ church says the deaths are the penance of a nation too accommodating of homosexuality or, alternatively, that the deaths of U.S. servicemen and woman are divine retaliation for a small bomb that caused about $1,800 damage in 1995 outside the Topeka home of one of Phelps’ daughters.

    Legislators in two states are pushing laws to bar protests at funerals. At least one Tennessee county has adopted a resolution to keep picketers away from mourners.

    That has triggered warnings of a First Amendment showdown. While Phelps family’s message strikes many people as offensive (one of their signs reads "Thank God For Dead Soldiers"), it is decidedly political.

    And, so at one soldier's funeral in Kansas the hateful church members were met by a group of counter biker protesters!

    The Biker Group is called the Patriot Guard Riders according to Jamie Allman from 97.1 FM radio. They are dedicated to show sincere respect for fallen heroes, their families, and their communities.

    gatewaypundit.blogspot.com . . .
    To sit down with these men and deal with them as the representatives of an enlightened and civilized people is to deride ones own dignity and to invite the disaster of their treachery - General Matthew Ridgway

  • #2
    WTF protesting at a soldier's funeral against homos??
    A grain of wheat eclipsed the sun of Adam !!

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Jay
      WTF protesting at a soldier's funeral against homos??
      Yeah these mental giants and super patriots say God hates the military because of don't ask, don't tell.

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