A fringe religious group known for carrying signs that read “Thank God for dead soldiers” at military funerals plans to picket a funeral for Elizabeth Edwards this weekend.
“God hates Elizabeth Edwards! WBC will picket her funeral at Edenton UNC ... from 11:30 to 1 p.m.,” the Westboro Baptist Church said in a press release. Elizabeth Edwards, the estranged wife of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, died of cancer Tuesday at the age of 61.
The church’s statement claims that Elizabeth Edwards forced God to kill her teenage son in a car crash, inflict her with cancer and ultimately kill her because she and her husband “presumptuously thought they could control God.” The statement condemns John Edwards as a “faithless” and “whorish” husband.
The statement blames Elizabeth Edwards for “talk show circuit spewing blasphemy” and her “smash-mouthed assault on His deity, sovereignty and infallibility.” The statement ends with “Elizabeth Edwards is in hell” in bold and all caps.
The funeral will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Edenton Street United Methodist Church in Raleigh. Various media outlets reported that the Methodist church is aware of the planned protest but had not decided how to handle the situation.
Elizabeth Edwards’ older daughter is scheduled to give one of three eulogies at this weekend’s public memorial service to honor the wife of two-time presidential candidate John Edwards.
The service is open to the public. The burial will be private. Edwards died Tuesday, six years after she was first diagnosed with cancer. The disease returned in an incurable form in 2007 during John Edwards’ second presidential campaign.
John Phelps is the leader of Westboro Baptist Church, whose 50 or so members mostly include his extended family.
The U.S. Supreme Court is considering a case on whether the church members are exercising their right to free speech or invading a grieving family’s privacy when they picket military funerals.
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50 members?
If this is true, where do they get all the funds for all the harm they do all around the country? It is pretty obvious that these people are not Baptist and should change their name. The love of Jesus is not in them if they make judgemental statements like they do. Instead of condemnation, they should be sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ, that is, He died as a perfect sacrifice for the very sinners they condemn.
If these people are Christians at all, they are not demonstrating what Jesus did, which is their job. They are not their own but were bought with a price.
We all would do well to pray for these folks, they need a revelation.
Lets Show Southern Hospitality
I hope that the people of North Carolina and the Baptists of North Carolina will show some southern hospitality and stop these people before they enter North Carolina and turn them around to send them back home. This is North Carolina not Kansas. We respect our soldiers, our citizens and most importantly our God and churches. We do not want some off the wall church run by a family that reminds us of another David Koresh from Waco. We don't need then in North Carolina ! We don't want them in North Carolina !
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