Subject: Letter to the editor of Michigan State University’s Student “Newspaper”.
Dear editor,
What’s this nonsense out of Kate Jacobson saying we “lined Matthew Snyder’s funeral with signs?” What does that even mean? Stop playing so loose with the facts. (Her brother has donned the uniform of a nation that has made God its #1 enemy. That hurts her credibility – a lot! As for her being “infuriated,” blah, blah, blah; you better start worrying about God’s fury little girl!)
Seven picketers (three adults; four children) stood over a thousand feet from the building on a public sidewalk with signs, for 30 minutes, leaving when the funeral started. No one going to the funeral saw or heard them. Two other groups of protesters were up on the church property and campus, and literally did line the sidewalk right up to the door. So stop all that lying!
No one is impeding anyone’s right to religion? Do you all at The State News understand that we are citizens just like you, and we have one thing in our hand, to wit, words! We have no government power; no ability to persecute; and no modus operandi of disrupting or interrupting. We don’t go into your stinky funerals; we don’t try to force anyone to listen or agree; and we aren’t remotely interested in stopping in your false religious worship.
Our purpose is simple: Tell you the truth! If you had your eyes open, you would know that for years the military, media, politicians and local citizenry have turned these soldiers’ funerals into boisterous sloppy maudlin noisy patriotic and military pep rallies. They stand by the hundreds and sometimes thousands all over the property, spilling out into the street, with revving motorcycle engines, and big mouths and impotent flags flapping. Politicians use the funerals as platforms for glad-handing and seeking votes, and the media sensationalizes them, while families and whore false prophets shed crocodile tears – all over the airwaves.
NOT ONE VOICE AMONG THEM IS TALKING ABOUT HOW TO STOP THE SOLDIERS FROM COMING HOME IN BODY BAGS! Selfish mutts!
We are! Stop sinning! Then they’ll stop dying. You’ve made sin your mores in this nation; you’re full of fornications, adulteries (divorce/remarriage), murders (born/unborn), idolatries, greed, and homosexuality (including same-sex marriage). You’re STINKIN’ PROUD OF YOUR SIN. Did you think God would overlook that forever? NO!
What you mean – little Miss Angry Kate – is YOU HATE THE WORDS. You don’t care where we say them. You couldn’t care less about that dead soldier or his family or any funeral ritual. And now you crass haters are declaring war on the courts. You have no respect for the laws of God, and you have no respect for the laws of man. You jabber endlessly about being a nation of laws – but the minute those laws don’t fully enable your sin – you want to kick them to the curb. Big, fat hypocrites!
It’s too late for the soldier! It’ll soon be too late for this nation. Your doom is imminent. You should have obeyed.
Semper fi! Semper fags! They’re coming home in body bags! And how we would feeeeeeel (that’s what it’s all about with your narcissistic rebels) if one of our loved ones died is earnestly focused on figuring out what we did to anger the Lord our God, and get right with him. That’s how the Bible requires you to feel when God deals with you. Shut up about your feeeeee-liiiiiiings.
PS It’s not the Snyders who sued; it’s the faithless father only, who sloughed off his wife to live with a man. The dead soldier’s mother issued a press release early on disavowing this nonsense.
Answering:
http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2010/04/church_actions_at_funeral_disturbing
Church actions at funeral disturbing by Kate Jacobson
My brother is a United States Marine. I remember the first day we found out he joined. I remember the look on my mother’s face. I remember the tears we cried when we saw him graduate from boot camp. I remember the anxiety when I found out he was going to Afghanistan. He is a proud soldier, and although I’ve had my reservations about watching him go, I am proud of him too.
So that’s why it infuriated me to read about a court ruling forcing a fallen Marine’s family to pay attorney’s costs to a church that protested its son’s funeral. …
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