Why do people protest funerals for soldiers?

I was reading about shirley phelps-roper, the woman who apparently hates gays and protests them, but her and her followers also protest funerals held for soldiers killed in combat, I'm completely confused, what do they have against people killed in...

combat?

Are you talking about that "God Hates F*GS" Church?

lol is that what they're known as, uhm I think so?

What the?
Sounds pretty senile.

yeah they protest because they think they're spreading Gods world. They are the most curupt organized group out there. Other than the vatican..

yes but why are they protesting it? exactly what do they believe is the sin here? I get that they dont like gays, bible blah blah blah, burn in hell, blah blah blah, but what exactly is their logic here? why exactly do they think soldiers who have died in a war deserve to be picketed?

They protest the soldiers because they believe that God is punishing America for its sins - hence their website http://www.godhatesamerica.com/.

You can find all kinds of garbage there that will help you understand.

First of all those people are evil to even interrupt a person funeral in the first place regardless if they were gay or if they fought at war, this people are evil and need to be arrested cause what they are doing is just plain wrong, what gave them the right to interrupt somebody's funeral you know!

Yep that's Fred Phelp's creation. The "God Hates F*gs" website is the one I referenced a few days ago with the burning photo of Matthew Shepperd. It makes me feel sick to my stomach.

I've studied his Church extensively after seeing "The Laramie Project", which showed his church picketing Matthew Shepard's funeral. Apparently, they think the War in Iraq is caused by God's anger at Homosexuals, and thats' why they picket the soldier's funerals. They argue it is their sacred duty to warn others of God's anger. He says that he is a preacher who believes that homosexuality and its acceptance have doomed most of the world to eternal damnation.

thanks Dara

That should be considered a hate crime.

technically protests are a crime, freedom of speech etc...

but a couple of the states are trying to make it a crime to protest at a funeral, and I know in one state it is illegal to disrupt military funerals...

Being (now ex) military (just served and got out of the Army) If I were attending one of my comrades funerals, and this group showed up, I would wind up in jail that day for at a minimum Assault. They can feel like god hates america all they want, but protesting at a funeral for someone who died defending their right TO protest in the first place is just moronic. I'm all for theose peoples right to protest whatever they want, but doing so at ANY funeral is just disrespectful and stupid. It causes unneeded anguish, and can even cause permanent mental damage to people. I think that they should be able to be sued by everyone that attended the funeral for mental anguish(which I think someone might actually be suing them, heard something about it). If they wanted anyone to take them serious, they wouldn't resort to such low tactics.

I fought to protect everyones right to say what they want(as long as they aren't imposing on someone elses rights in the process)

Something people don't know,or don't hear about in Iraq is that a majority of the terrorists that are there, are NOT local to Iraq. They came there to either A) Kill us soldiers and B)Subjugate Iraqis and force them to follow in the terrorists beliefs. Both of those are true.

I've had terrorists say to my face how the reason the kill,blow up, and bomb Americans AND Iraqi's is that the don't believe that the world has a right to view things different than they do. The religious terrorists truly do want to force the world to hold true to their beliefs, and ONLY their beliefs. Now I don't agree myself with being in Iraq for the reasons we initially came there, and I am proud to say the areas I served, when we left were Al Qaeda free, we ran them out completely from those areas. It's true that while Saddam was in power, there were less civilians killing civilians, and almost no terrorists just taking up root there(Because Saddam had anyone that plotted to blow up something because they wanted to force Iraq into their beliefs killed. And civilians still had to fear Saddam, as he would and has killed massive amounts of people for the pettiest of things) That's irrelevant now. How I felt about it when I was there was irrelevant. My unit saved lives. We targeted terrorists that targeted civilians.

I'm not saying whether we need to say there or not, or whether being there now is right or wrong. I don't know, no one does. No one knows ALL the facts, not even bush. People hid just as much from him as he hid from us. All I'm saying is that we DID help some people. We DID save some lives. At the time, that is all that was important. Saving innocent people. I couldn't afford to care whether if we weren't there those people would have even been in danger or not, again, no one can know this for sure. All I could care about was helping the people I could, where I was, at that time.

Until every single fact, every single shred of evidence is known, no one can make a good decision on the Iraq subject. All they can do is do what they(they being whoever is in charge) feels right, and hope for the best. Sad to say it, but that's all that can be done.