Thank you so much for your answers. As I put my paper together, I only have a couple more questions.
1) My professor, Dr. G, is interested to read your responses to my questions. Do you mind if I share this interview with him?
2) More recently, the Westboro Baptist Church has began to demonstrate at funerals of soldiers. What caused the WBC to extend their demonstrations to these locations?
3) Since the WBC’s emergence, has it faced any counter movements? If so, what kinds of movements has it encountered?
That should be all; thanks again for your help.
Ethan
Answers as asked:
1. I do not mind. I do not mind if you show it to anyone of your choosing.
2. We have been on the streets every day for 20 years. During that time, we warned this nation that if they went the way of Sodom, they would suffer her fate. We told these people what the prophets of old told those nations and those people; the message is all the same. They did not hear us. They did not heed our warning. Now we are connecting the dots from A: Rebellion against God and worse and more to B: your dead children. If you read 2 Chronicles 16:11-16 and more, you get the blue print of your destruction. The prophets are FULL of plain words about the path this nation faces. God does not change, our duty is to fear and obey him. NOTHING else will do. We began the soldier’s funerals on June 15, 2005.
3. That is a hysterically funny question. From the beginning to this day, we face opposition. The most recent was this week, when a veteran stalked us from our picket of Mulvane High School to the Wichita Police Department. He was armed with an M4 Assault Rifle, a .45 Caliber Glock handgun and a .38-Caliber Smith and Wesson handgun. He had 90 rounds of ammo. He had somehow learned of our appointment at the Wichita PD. It was not a published event, it was a meeting. He backed his car into a stall facing our vehicle. You can find many more details about this if you Google the matter. His name is Ryan Newell. The silly veterans think they are going to stop God and stop his people from telling them that they must obey the commandments of God. They have bats in their belfry. We have been sued and prosecuted, the media demonizes, marginalizes and vilifies us and we have had continuous vandalism, and when my #8 baby was 4 days old, a fag set off an IED at my house. They have set the church on fire, and more things than I can remember, must less recount. They waste their time trying! They demonstrate from sea to shining sea in this nation that they do NOT believe God and they say plainly that they will NOT have that man, Christ Jesus, to rule over them!
Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.
Christ said about these last hours of the last days of all these words:
Luke 21:12 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name’s sake.
13 And it shall turn to you for a testimony.
14 Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:
15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
16 And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.
17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.
18 But there shall not an hair of your head perish.
19 In your patience possess ye your souls.
So we are not surprised! But he also said this:
Matthew 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
We follow the teachings of Christ, and Peter had many of the words of God and we find them written for us, for our learning and our comfort and more.
Thanks.