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I think that everything that can be said about the Foley fiasco has already been said. Several times over. Under the FBI and House Ethics Committee finishes their work, saying anything else is just making a lot of noise for no reason.

So tonight I was just catching up on some things, and trying to avoid the fourteenth-hundred rehash of the same Foley junk. And I happened to watch the Hannity & Colmes interview with Shirley Phelps-Roper of the Westboro “Baptist” Church. Now I had heard bits and pieces of Fred Phelps and his lot, usually because they were protesting at the funerals of servicemen killed in the War on Terror. That was tasteless enough.

Then I did hear yesterday that the same group planned to come to the funerals of the poor Amish girls who were gunned down at their school the other day. Although I heard it, I just couldn’t figure out what this misguided group throught they were trying to accomplish. It’s not like Amish communities are havens for the homosexual lifestyle.

But after watching this brief interview, it’s clear that the Phelps’ and their “church” just don’t understand anything about the Reformed faith, even though they claim some Baptist roots.

The Independent Conservative very rightfully was outraged that Mike Gallagher is turning over an hour of his radio show in order to bribe these fools into not turning the Pennsylvania funerals into a circus. After seeing just a few minutes of her, I can see how right he is to be upset.

Fundamentally, she stated that God is vengeful and is out to punish man for not following his commandments. The Amish girls were killed. Since they died, it’s because God is teaching us a lesson. Both Sean and Alan tried to get her to explain how it was that these children could have deserved such a punishment, but that’s really beside the point. Of course they did not. But it wasn’t clear that was Phelps-Roper’s contention either, she just was stuck on the idea that they died, therefore it was God that did it. At one point she did branch out and kind of insinuate that their death might have had something to do with Governor of Pennsylvania:

… those children were killed at the hands of a raging mad God to punish those families, to punish the state of Pennsylvania, because you’ve got a governor in that state got on FOX News and lambasted us because we serve God.

But there’s no arguing with a person like this. To them, everyone who dies is just another “proof” of their theory in their own minds. It’s not that they are protesting… they are just yelling.

There are some people who mistakenly believe that if you worship God right and live your life well that you will be blessed. And if something bad happens in your life then it means you are not living right. The Westoboro clan has even taken this faulty thinking to an even more ludicrous extreme. Only in their version, there is no one (except possibly themselves) that can live right.

The Phelps clan is right about one thing: we are all sinners. And we can not save ourselves. But they missed the part about the gift of God’s grace and forgiveness. All they can see is that others sin.

I’m glad that they were not there to spoil the girls’ funerals. But they have shown themselves to be nothing but publicity hounds. And they shouldn’t have been given more time to spread their junk theology.