Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut

.......[c]2006 by Richard L Zorek......1.26.06.....I like Cashews. And salted peanuts. And there's a lot of other nuts I enjoy. Some nuts bother me. Like, for example, Reverend Fred Phelps from Topeka, Kansas. The "Reverend" from the Westboro Baptist Church has been picketing funerals of gay and lesbians for years. Now they are picketing funerals of soldiers who die in Iraq. Funerals, of course, are for the living....and help the bereaved in getting closure in their time of grief. So, Phelps, who is shaped like a Walnut, and his group are adding to the pain. Even though their picket signs say things like "Thank God for Dead Soldiers" or "God Hates Fags," most people just become angry because of the nuts carrying signs. Phelps says it is because God hates America because it has embraced homosexuality and because of the military's "don't ask don't tell" policy. New laws that may get passed in Kansas and Missouri may stop that. The new laws are intended to stop picketing at funerals. Interestingly, only the American Civil Liberties Union has come to Phelps' aid on the matter. But "no legislation is going to prevent us from causing America to know her abominations" says an attorney and member of Westboro Baptist Church. (The attorneys name also happen to be Shirley Phelps-Rogers). If you are looking for Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, just look for the big "Planters" jar with the steeple and the congregation is inside.