Tolerance

As defined by Dictionary.com, tolerance means:

1. a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, practices, race, religion, nationality, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.

2. a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward opinions and practices that differ from one's own.

3. interest in and concern for ideas, opinions, practices, etc., foreign to one's own; a liberal, undogmatic viewpoint.

4. the act or capacity of enduring; endurance.

As such, how is anything that the Westboro Baptist Church does considered tolerant? Is God so intolerant or just their God? The Huffington Post published their latest flyer (I wasn't able to access the WBC site directly). In it the WBC thanks God for the Arizona shooter and calls Congresswoman Giffords “a fag-promoting, baby-killing, proud-sinner.”

What is wrong with this group? They plan now to picket the funerals of the shooter’s victims. This seems very much like a hate crime to me.

Although several laws have been passed to curtail the WBC, are they working?

Indiana passed a law making it a felony to protest within 500 feet of a funeral. South Dakota did the same.

Michigan banned any intentional disruption of funerals within 500 feet.

Illinois enacted the “Let Them Rest in Peace Act” to shield grieving military families and President Bush signed the “Respect for America’s Fallen Heroes Act” prohibiting protests within 300 feet of any cemetery under control of the National Cemetery Administration for a period of time before and after ceremonies.

Are we going to sit around and wait for each and every state to take legal action against them? I say…stop giving the WBC press! Stop listening to their rants. IGNORE them. SHUN them. The more the press highlights their actions, the more they go on and the more idiot recruits they get. SHUN THEM! According to one bible source (Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary), “shun - stand above, separate from, and superior to.” Let’s all stand above the WBC.