This is a good time to show our support, as a community. A co-worker here at Sonic.net recently lost her brother, who was serving in Afghanistan.
The Westboro Baptist Church group will be picketing a number of churches on Sunday, then the soldier's funeral in Santa Rosa. Here is their website: https://www.godhatesfags.com/
Whatever your position is on war or religion - I think we can all agree that these people are just way, way over the top.
Their picket schedule can be found there. If you have time on Sunday, consider turning out for the funeral, as that's likely to be the most hateful portion. Here's Westboro's release on this: https://www.godhatesfags.com/written...le-funeral.pdf
More propaganda: https://www.signmovies.net/videos/signmovies/tgfi.html
Santa Rosa Memorial Park 1900 Franklin Ave. I'm going to arrive at 2:00pm. The picket schedule says that they'll be there at 1:15, but that's well before the start of the funeral.
I'd love to see as many loving Sonoma County people there as possible! If you believe in God, he/she probably doesn't hate anyone - and sending a message of love and acceptance by your own attendance sure would be real nice.
For more on the Westboro Baptist Church, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Phelps
Lots of YouTube videos - here's a starting point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra_fAYl4Th4&NR=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEqlcxW8aS8&NR=1
Let's show our support, and condemn this homophobic hate group!
Please do check out the websites and videos. I'm sure you'll be pretty surprised by these nuts who are going to be picketing in our community.
-Dane