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SGT. JEREMY DOYLE
Hideous scenes at the Indiana funeral of a US soldier killed in Iraq:
Sgt. Jeremy Doyle’s sacrifice brought many out to honor him but also sparked a standoff on a city street.
People arriving to say goodbye to a hometown hero met an altogether different scene in Martinsville. Demonstrators dragging American flags on the ground and holding signs opposing U. S. troops.
Tension grew before the demonstrators finally left their location, right across the street from Army Sgt. Jeremy Doyle’s funeral service.
According to the group’s website, it sees American deaths in Iraq as a kind of punishment for social misdeeds.
The group in question is a psycho brigade of gay-hating Christian freaks who tour the country picketing soldier funerals. Interesting that the most Taliban-like Baptists in the US are on the anti-war team. By the way, do fathers of fallen servicemen also possess Mother Sheehan’s absolute moral authority? Perhaps Maureen Down should interview John Doyle:
"If I had to lose a son, if I had to lose one, I’d rather it be serving our country,” Doyle’s father explained.
Doyle’s father and stepmother have more to say here:
"I wanted people to know that he paid the ultimate price—that he should be celebrated,” John Doyle said …
"He was there willingly. He was an enlisted man. He hadn’t been drafted, so everybody should support those guys,” Doyle said.
Doyle’s stepmother told RTV6 that when she spoke with him by phone, he never complained.
"He wanted to make a difference and he has made a difference,” Sandy Doyle said. “He’s made a difference in my life and every American."
"He wanted to make a difference and he has made a difference,” Sandy Doyle said. “He’s made a difference in my life and every American."
And so he has, Mrs. Doyle. May The Almighty comfort you and your husband in your sorrow.
And as for those psycho pseudo-Christian asshats......they are beneath contempt. I’ve stepped on dog turds that are higher than they are.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 08 30 at 03:59 AM • permalinkThose demonstrators think more like Islamic extremists than rational people, david. That’s why I call them “pseudo-Christians”.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 08 30 at 04:12 AM • permalinkThe ultimate irony is that their psycho cult leader ran for Governor as a Democrat several times and used to eat dinner with Al Gore.
Posted by Aaron - Freewill on 2005 08 30 at 04:27 AM • permalink’God Hates Fags’ is the creation of some nutjob called Fred Phelps. As well as this sort of stuff he is a violently unstable, wife and child abusing headcase. But there is something about Phelps in Wikipedia which is interesting:
“In the 1980s, the Phelps family were strong political allies with then-senator Al Gore. The home of Fred Jr., Phelps’ eldest son, located in the Westboro compound, acted as Gore’s campaign quarters for one of his senate races, and the Westboro compound was host to a fundraiser”
“In January of 1993, Fred Phelps, his wife Marge, Fred Phelps Jr., and Betty Phelps-Schurle were invited to (and attended) the inaugural ball in Washington D.C.”
They’re not Christians.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 08 30 at 08:14 AM • permalinkThey are loons that is for sure. Interesting to see they are in they are in the anti-war camp. The anti-war loons are an interesting collection of people aren’t they?
Posted by Andrew Ian Dodge on 2005 08 30 at 09:22 AM • permalinkdebi L. — Phelps and his hyena pack are not affiliated with any organized Baptist church.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 08 30 at 09:38 AM • permalinkInteresting that the most Taliban-like Baptists in the US are on the anti-war team.
We can rest easy that the Taliban Christers do not have the capacity to stage a coup as there seems to be only about 25 members in Phelps’ group. I use the word “group” loosely as most of its members are actually family members.
It’s a family affaaaaair, it’s a family affaaaair…
Yes, which is another shining example of why inbreeding is bad. Knuckleheads like this guy (and libs in general) make me want to b****-slap them.
Posted by crusher_of_libs on 2005 08 30 at 11:35 AM • permalinkThe text to innumerable* links, if you scroll down at WBC:
“Thank God for IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) Killing Americans in Strange Lands.”
*ok, not literally “innumerable”, but more than I feel like counting on my fingers…
Posted by zeppenwolf on 2005 08 30 at 01:19 PM • permalinkThe demonstrations at soldiers’ funerals by the despicable Fred Phelps and his loathsome family are beyond any descriptor. It’s a continuing miracle that somebody hasn’t tried to shoot him. If anybody ever does, I hope their aim is good, because without him, his pack of rats will eventually disappear.
Having done some googling, I can answer my own question now: Yes, Fred Phelps most definitely is an unabashed anti-Semite, too. Quelle surprise.
It’s like the first corollary to Blair’s Law ("the ongoing process by which the world’s multiple idiocies are becoming one giant, useless force") is “the lowest common denominator of this process is hating Jews”.
Boy, David Duke, the “Rev” Al Sharpton, and now, Fred Phelps. All lending their unique brands of ‘moral authority’ to the ‘anti-war movement’. Somebody on another thread joked about the circus in Crawford being moonbat flypaper, but I can’t think of three people who can faster discredit anyone or anything they’re associated with.
Where’s Karl Rove?
He’s in his underground laboratory underneath the “Greenbrier” in the Blue Ridge Mountatins, hatching his next evil, Zionist, Neo-Con plot. Or he’s at home watching the moonbats on TV, laughing his ass off. I know I am. Bwaa, ha, ha!
Posted by crusher_of_libs on 2005 08 30 at 03:51 PM • permalinkMy hometown lost a son in Iraq and the townspeople came out in mass to honor his heroism and sacrifice. We thanked him sincerely and especially his parents for the ultimate sacrifice. A funeral is a time for showing solemn respect. This is what should happen at any soldier’s funeral.
If these people want to protest gays, fine. Let them do it at a street corner or better yet Dupont Circle or Canal Street. But do it at a funeral that I’m attending, well, funeral or no funeral, there will be a baptist butt whipping.
That’s just the way it is.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 08 30 at 08:49 PM • permalinkdebi L,
Technical note: Baptists don’t have any centralized structure—no “synod” or established church. If you want to call yourself a Baptist, put up a sign. There isn’t any approval process, nor even anyone to run one if it existed. The closest thing Baptists have is the so-called “conventions”, where representatives of individual churches get together and debate.
Fred Phelps is living proof that this system has a downside.
Regards,
RicI’m with Yojimbo (#17) on this one.
If those mongrels showed up at any military funeral I was attending, the next funeral they showed up at would be their own.
They are beneath contempt.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2005 08 31 at 03:37 AM • permalinkThe evil “Reverend” Phelps is discussed at length here:
http://www.blank.org/addict/orig.addict.html
Second link is an HTML file, full text of the website above.
I wish I could remeber the website that posted a US Army directive on this Phelps guy. It seems his scam is to provoke an attack after which he will sue the Army (or whoever). His wife is his lawyer. The military are under orders to avoid contact with the moonbat. At a policemans funeral the bagpipers simply drowned out his hate filled rant. It has been said the pipes never sounded so sweet.
PS Thanks for the hard work, Tim
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I don’t agree with the “Christian” designation here. These idiots take Biblical scripture and twist it to meet their own sick needs. Hell, even Lucifer quotes the Bible on several occasions, but always out of context or with meanings changed—much like WBC/GHF.
The only reason these morons are called “Christian” is because they consider themselves members of a Baptist church, when in actuality they have nothing in common with true Christianity.