For those who don't recognise the name, you may know them as the "God Hates Fags"[1] people; the asshats who protest the funerals of everyone from soldiers to school-shooting victims, spreading their own version of hate-based Christianity, claiming that God allows (or even causes) such deaths in order to punish innocent people for the crimes of being in an army that also allows homosexuals to serve, or attending a pre-school which upholds the constitutional principles surrounding the separation of church and state.
In it's heyday, the church had only a couple of dozen members, nowadays it has fewer, yet we report on their activities as though they have some kind of relevance to the world. I put it to you that in doing so, we give them one.
They hold these protests, in the most upsetting places possible, in order to gain attention for their cause; when we give them the attention, we make it worth their while. In condemning them, we give them exactly what they want, and make it more likely that they'll do it again.
So please, if you see a story about them in future, ignore it, rather than sharing it; even by mocking them, you help keep them going.
[1] As an asside, one has to wonder if the mainstream media would be as quick to share unedited quotes and images of their vile placards if the group were primarily racist rather than homophobic... Somehow I can't see any of the major news sites referring to the "God Hates Niggers" Church; if the media must continue to feed these evil little trolls, I wish they would do so with a little more courtesy to our brothers and sisters in the LGBT community.
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