Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Freedom of Anti-American Speech?

Many people today think that the days of the violent hate groups are over since the civil rights resolutions in the 1960s. However, my roommate recently showed this to be far from the facts. A current group that refers to themselves as the Westboro Baptist Church, has created a notorious fame of publicly displaying their prejudices against homosexuality.

The members of this "religion," exhibit their hatred for homosexuals in quite the public manner. With their website titled "God Hates Fags," the Westboro Baptist Church has tried to spread their message to the public. The groups ideology conveys that through tragic events such as September 11th, the killing in combat, and the increase of diseases like AIDS, God is trying to send a message: to terminate homosexuality. Members of the group frequently attend the funerals of American soldiers, in order to reiterate their beliefs that God killed this soldier as punishment for the American army's allowance of gays.

The hate organization also condemns those of the Jewish, Catholic, and some Protestant faiths, professing that Hitler had it right during the Holocaust. The WBC finds that these religions are almost as low as the homosexuals in the mind of God. Unlike these faiths, the WBC believes the sinful nature of American acceptance of diversity to be the central principal.

Upon my initial discovery of this current hatred, I was in complete disbelief. Irrelevant to whether people morally support homosexuality or not, there are no exceptions to this behavior. As lawsuits have been filed against the Westboro Baptist Church, the WBC has legally prevailed, arguing their American right to free speech. However, as this behavior is contradictorily Anti-American, shouldn't their be some type of legal justice?




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