arienettelyn's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If there is a hell, I'll see you there I'm completely speechless...please read this and follow the link if you have a heart at all... The following is an article published October 3, 2003 by 365Gay.com's News Center. (Casper, Wyoming) Anti-gay preacher Fred Phelps has announced intentions to erect a monument to Matthew Shepard the gay college student brutally murdered five years ago near Laramie. But, the monument will be no memorial. Phelps says the monument would be 5 to 6 feet tall and made of marble or granite. It would bear a bronze plaque bearing the image of Shepard and have an inscription reading "MATTHEW SHEPARD, Entered Hell October 12, 1998, in Defiance of God's Warning: 'Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind; it is abomination.' Leviticus 18:22." The monument would be erected in downtown Casper, Shepard's home town. Phelps has sent details of the monument to the city of Casper city council and there may be nothing the city can do to prevent it. Phelps said he intends to put up the monument in City Park, already the location of a controversial statue of the Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments statue was donated to the city by the Fraternal Order of the Eagles in 1965. After a court battle over a similar monument in the city of Ogden, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that any city that displays a Ten Commandments monument on public property must also allow monuments espousing the views of other religions or political groups on that same property. Phelps told Casper council in his letter that if it attempts to prevent him from erecting the homophobic monument he's prepared to go to court. "That is exactly what I said would happen," said Councilwoman Barb Watters. She said she warned the city when it accepted the Ten Commandments statue that the city risked other monuments advocating anti-Semitism and hatred of other minorities. "I think the hate language will find a very cold reception in this community," councilor Paul Bertoglio said. "I think this community's backbone is going to come up and say 'We are not going to accept it.'" The city council is looking at several options, one is fighting Phelps in court, another is moving the Ten Commandments out of the park, and yet another proposal would be to sell the land the park is on. Phelps says he doesn't care what the city decides. If he is unable to put the statue in City Park he said he will find another location in the city. During Shepard's funeral members of Phelps' Westoboro Baptist Church demonstrated in front of the chapel. Article � 365Gay.com, 2003 Please go here and sign the petition against this asshole. I don't understand...how someone can be a preacher, supposedly have a close relationship with God, and have so much hate inside of them. My personal opinion is that religion is a bunch of bullshit, and I honestly don't know too many details about it, but...how can you believe in a God that cruel? How could you worship a God that cruel? Who takes glory in people going to Hell? Also, I'm not sure exactly what Christians problems with gays are, but I've been told by the Christians I know that the problem is not that they are attracted to the same sex, and that it is only sinful when they act upon their desires. So, as far as I'm concerned, unless this Reverend Phelps dickhead was fucking Matthew Shepard himself, he definitely cannot know for sure that this guy was actually a "sinner," correct? Of course, it's not totally out of the question that a Reverend would be fucking a nice little blonde boy. Where's the "monuments" for all the fucking pervert priests? I'm so disgusted right now...it's time for me to go listen to Thursday and Boy Sets Fire and hate Christians, hurray! (I don't hate Christians, don't flip. I hate this guy and everyone who thinks he has a good point) 9:24 p.m. - 2003-11-11 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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