Baptist Group To Protest At Heath Ledger Memorial

This is just flat out unacceptable.

Forget the fact that the late Heath Ledger is an actor, the death of any person that young is a real tragedy. I’m sure his family is devastated by his passing, I know I would if I had to bury one of my boys. Just the thought of having to do something like that scares the crap out of me. Mr. & Mrs. Ledger are going to have enough trouble burying their 28 year old son, and we haven’t even been given the answers to why this happened yet, and now it appears that there will be picketers at the service being held in the US.

The family was gracious enough to hold one service in the US and one in Ledger’s native Australia, and their reward for this is to have protesters from a Kansas Baptist Church, who intend to picket outside the service so they can celebrate the opinion that their son is currently burning in Hell, well at least in their opinion. Their reason for believing this? Because Ledger played a gay man in the hit movie ‘Brokeback Mountain’ a few years ago. They even think Ledger’s death is a punishment from God for taking that role, and that his spot in Hell was waiting for him when he died. While people are free to have an opinion, to stand outside the funeral service and shout that to the peole attending seems a bit rude. One of the rare moments when I wish the police would

The Kansas Baptist Group protesting the funeral has a deep history for being disrespectful to the dead. They’ve protested many funerals and while they are free to think what they want, this aggressive ram down your throat and in your face attitude is what gives the Church a bad rap these days. If I was attending this funeral, I would bring a sign of my own that would read: Mattew 7, verse 1. In case you’re not familar with the particular passage, it reads: ‘Judge not, that ye be not judged’. If these protesters really claimed to be loyal follows of that book they carry around, you’d think they’d at least read it and try to remember that judging is someone else’s job, not theirs. This kind of blatant hypocrisy is one of many reasons why I do not follow or have any respect for organized religion or God. If there was a God (and that’s a big iff here people, I doubt that he/she/it/them would tolerate this kind of hatred.

They seem to have a problem with homosexuality, but where were these ‘protesters’ when priests were being busted left, right and center for raping and molesting little boys? Last time I checked, they should have all been front and center when that scandal was going on but an actor pretends to be gay in a movie (but really isn’t) and that’s enough for them to get their knickers in a knot? Screw them and their self-righteous hypocrisy, and I really hope the police are there in force to make the keep their distance. Better yet, if I was incharge of that service, I’d file a restraining order to keep them at least 500 feet away from the place where it’s being held.

I’m personally disgusted by these people and their inability to show compassion for those who are greiving. When someone passes on, that is usually the time to toss opinions and politics aside, move past your feelings and show respect for a family that is trying to to cope with a terrible loss. Shame on these heartless hypocrites for even thinking that they have the right to harass anyone in their time of greif.

Peter

Baptist Group To Protest At Heath Ledger Memorial

A controversial church described as a “hate group” has said it will protest at Heath Ledger’s memorial service because he played a gay character in Brokeback Mountain.

The Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church – which has previously said they wished a million people had been killed in the London terror attacks in 2005 – issued a statement saying the Australian actor was “now in hell”.

“WBC will picket this pervert’s funeral, in religious protest,” the group said.

“God hates the sordid, tacky bucket of slime seasoned with vomit known as Brokeback Mountain and He hates all persons having anything whatsoever to do with it.

“Heath Ledger is now in Hell, and has begun serving his eternal sentence there.”

The demonstrations will target memorial services held in the US, not those in Australia, according to church spokeswoman Shirley Phelps-Roper.

“You cannot live in defiance of God,” she told Fox News.

“He got on that big screen with a big, fat message: God is a liar and it’s okay to be gay.”

Ms Phelps-Roper, who described Ledger as “a fornicator”, said the group will also be picketing the Oscars.

The Westboro Baptist Church has been classified as a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Centre, which monitors extremist activity.

It is the same church which Sky News investigated in 2005.

They revealed to Sky’s US correspondent Robert Nisbet their views on the London July,7, 2005 attacks.

They also called the Roman Catholic church the biggest paedophile organisation in the world and were taken to court recently by a family whose funeral they picketed.

Source: Yahoo News