On my way to work this morning, I heard a news report that a fundamentalist church out of Kansas is going to picket two of the funerals of the Lane Bryant Shooting victims. It has been surmised that they are going to protest because Lane Bryant sells clothes to transvestites and homosexuals.
This is the same group that pickets the funerals of soldiers who died in Iraq under the opinion that the War in Iraq is judgment for the practice of homosexuality in America today.
Their website address? Godhatesfaggots.com.
I find the whole thing incredibly wrong. Abusive. A misrepresentation of a God who loves and cares for people as a whole.
We live in an incredibly and increasingly insane world.
Tragedy strikes. Women are killed, massacred, murdered. And “Christians” from another state, who don’t feel our pain or shock, come in and pile on to the hurt and woundedness of everyone involved, especially the families.
This is wrong. Someone needs to say it.
Our God hates sin. He does not hate people. He hates sin because it separates people from a full relationship with Him.
But to picket a funeral of hurting families under the guise that “sin is being attacked” is ludicrous.
My prayer is that those who are protesting will be turned around by God’s grace and realize that more is conquered through love and mercy than through hate and judgment.
Just some thoughts.
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