It's like this:
A: What do you think about Fred Phelps picketing the funerals of fallen American Soldiers?
Republican: I think it's a disgrace. They should be run out of town.
A: The families of those soldiers will be glad to hear that. So will the gays.
Republican: The gays? What do they have to do with anything?
A: They picket American soldiers because they say this country tolerates gays living here.
Republican: Well that's terrible. They are picketing at the wrong place. They should be picketing hospitals that treat gays with AIDS and gay funerals. The message is good, it's just aimed at the wrong people.
A: So you think the anti gay message is OK?
Republican: Well, yea. God hates the gays. Besides, they want to destroy marriage and recruit children.
This has nothing to do with either politics or religion. WBC claims religion as a shield to run a scam, there's nothing else happening here. They choose the most inflammatory way of "protesting" possible hoping to provoke people to violence so they can sue. It's a souped up version of the fake slip and fall run by pussies who taunt the families of fallen soldiers then hide behind their little kids when somebody goes after them. BIG difference between what they're running and what you're claiming, rdean.
I have to respectfully disagree. I think it has everything to do with religion AND with politics.
If you are going to run a scam, there are better ways. My feeling is Fred Phelps, in his diseased mind, is doing what he thinks is "God's work".
Fred Phelps is sick and this is demonstrated by his fixation on gays.
Republicans are NOT angered over his anti gay rants, but by his desecration of the funerals of fallen American heroes.
And this has Republicans doubly mad. First, for insulting fallen soldiers and their families, second for connecting those fallen soldiers with the gays, however tenuous that connection is.
We know that gays are NOT welcome in the Republican party. Otherwise, Republican politicians would stop returning money given to them by the gay group, "Log Cabin Republicans".
So if Republicans are outraged by Fred Phelps for the disrespect he has shown American soldiers, fine, that's good. But for those that feign outrage because gays are being smeared, stop. No one believes it.